Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers

InfoWorld's top picks for the most indispensable open source software of all time

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    Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers

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    1. Linux kernel

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    2. GNU utilities and compilers

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    3. Ubuntu

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    4. Three BSDs

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    5. Samba

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    6. MySQL

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    7. BIND

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    8. Sendmail

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    9. OpenSSH and OpenSSL

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    10. Apache

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    See the 2008 BOSSIES winners

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    See the 2009 Technology of the Year Award winners

Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers

Among the 36 legendary software projects in InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame, these 10 top our list as the most important and valuable. It's a rare software product that has no alternatives, but the software landscape would be far poorer without any one of these nearly indispensable tools.

Read the full story about all 36 Hall of Famers.

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August 16, 2009

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