Number 10 enduring open source projects

Today, open source projects everywhere, they experienced a birth, prosperity, decline and a series of processes, and ultimately very good projects to survive and grow.

Some people think that the open source movement has only arisen in recent years, but in fact, open source projects can even be traced back to decades ago. For example, the the 1960s NASA Cosmic software collection.

"When I was working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I was part of a software-sharing community that had been around for years," said Stallman, founder of free software.

This article will list some old, classic open source projects, in which I only list the open source projects that are still in use.

1. linux:1991 Year August 25

"I'm working on a free operating system, and it's just a hobby of mine that won't be a big and professional project (like GNU)," Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, wrote in the project's Open source program. Today, Linux has become the master of Open source operating systems and the most successful open source projects.

2. python:1991 Year February 20

Python's creator, Guido van Rossum, began work in December 1989, but it was not released for the first time until February 1991. Python is the fastest-growing programming language in the open source world, according to Black Duck Software Inc.

Not only have Open-source developers supported Python, but Microsoft has also provided a Python IDE for Visual Studio.

3. GNU C Library (glibc): February 1988

GLIBC's early success was due to Roland McGrath, who at the beginning of 1988 Roland McGrath released GLIBC, a nearly complete ANSI C library. Based on this project, countless programs have emerged, including Linux.

4. perl:1987 Year December 18

Thanks to Larry Wall,perl has become the preferred scripting language for most servers.

5. GNU C Compiler (GCC): March 22, 1987

If glibc is important, then GCC is also critical. At the beginning, GCC only supported the C language. But now, the supported languages include C, C + +, objective C, Fortran, and Java.

6. GNU emacs:1984 Year

Some people think that GNU Emacs is the first version of the editor. In fact, the start time of Emacs can be traced back to 1972 years. This is a powerful text editor that is popular with programmers and other computer users who work primarily on technology.

7. X Window system:1983 Year

X window is a bitmap-displayed software window system that was originally the result of the 1983 MIT Research, and then became the operating protocol for standardized software toolkits and display architectures that are uniformly applicable to Unix, Unix-like, and OpenVMS operating systems.

8) brl-cad:1983 year December 16

BRL-CAD is called Ballistic Research laboratory-computer-aided (computer-aided design of the ballistics Lab), a three-dimensional geometric model development code base supported by the U.S. military, You can use this open source development package to create a variety of 3D solid models, such as tanks, wheels and so on, this toolkit includes the following: Interactive geometry editor, universal frame buffer, network distribution, image processing, signal processing, etc., Support command line and GUI graphical interaction mode.

9. BSD unix:1978 Year March 9

The first open source operating system is not Linux, but Bill Joy's BSD UNIX. UNIX was first open source in 1969, but was subsequently closed. But the BSD version allows the system to continue in open source form. Subsequent FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X are all based on BSD Unix.

vista:1975 years

Finally, the oldest open source system Vista is introduced. This is not Microsoft's Windows operating system, but the abbreviation for Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (Veterans Health Information System and technology architecture).

Vista is by far the most widely used medical information system in the world. In the United States, nearly half of the hospitals affiliated with EMR (Electronic medical records) are using Vista.

Original: The oldest, significant open-source programs