Top 10 open source downloads of all time
The recently-revived Red Herring names the top 10 open source downloads of all time in its 17/07/06 issue. Piracy - sorry, sharing - is still the killer app. Choose your poison from the list below. Just don't call us after you've been arrested. (Pictured: BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen.)
Project (what it does): no. of downloads
1. Emule (file sharing client): 206.6 million
2. Azureus (cross-platform BitTorrent client): 120.1m
3. BitTorrent (tool for distributed downloading): 51.9m
4. DC++ (file sharing client): 36.5m
5. Ares Galaxy (chat, file sharing P2P client): 32.1m
6. CDex: (extracting digital audio data from an audio CD): 28.7m
7. Virtual Dub (desktop video processing + capture app): 26.2m
8. Shareaza (multi-network P2P filesharing client): 23.8m
9. Emule Plus (improved vers. of Emule): 14.6m
10. Gtk+/Gimp (installers for Windows): 13.5m
Source: Sourceforge, late June.
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Comments
Is firefox not Opensource ?
Nearly 200 million !
Firefox downloads: 199694685
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/88
[Yes, by most counts Firefox is 150-200 million. I'd say it should have been in there. CK]
Posted by: KiwiTT_NZ | July 31, 2006 3:31 PM