The 10 Most Downloaded Open Source Apps Of All Time
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:15
Everyone loves open source software. After all… its free! Many times I’ve heard the question, “what are the most popular open source applications of all time?” I decided to find out.
1. eMule – 520,970,337 downloads: The most popular open source download of all time is a peer-to-peer file sharing client. What does this tell you?
2. Vuze (formerly Azureus) – 489,705,154 downloads: The second most popular open source download of all time is a Java-based BitTorrent client. Wow!
3. Ares Galaxy – 217,874,303 downloads:
SourceForge downloads
I do love Free Software, and I sure like the Open Source methodology, but I would imagine that people find many more apps in the GNU/Linux software repositories or from an application's website, more than at SourceForge. Perhaps not tho, but SF is a bit technically-oriented.