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Open-source history as a slideshow

by Kyle on May 2nd, 2007

Eweek has a flash presentation that visually represents the history of many of the most important open-source applications. The presentation covers a bit of history on the following applications: Nessus, Firefox, Perl, PHP, Apache, the kernel, Wireshark, VNC, BSD, Webmin, Asterisk, Nmap, OpenOffice.org, MySql, Nagios, Eclipse, Samba, OpenSSH and OpenSSL. The slide show is short, informative, and interesting. This is a great way to learn about some of open-source’s best offerings. Personally, I’ve never used Nessus, Asterisk, Nmap, and Nagios. What about you? Did you learn about any new software? Let us know in the comments.

History of open-source applications - [Eweek]

Other Linux slide shows from Eweek - [Eweek]

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