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My comparisons/overviews are for active FOSS software only. They serve a specific purpose, namely to give end users and developers an overview over the currently actively developed software available. I am not interested in history or closed source stuff. Thus I will not maintain the currently "allowed" Wikipedia pages regarding software overviews! I believe such overview to be most useful to anybody owning a computer. Yes, it is FOSS only. Commercial developers should have enough money for marketing purposes, FOSS developers usually do not.

I hope my work will eventually find its way to mainline wikipedia, or to a web page specific for this purpose. FSF?

NOTE No1: When I started this, I assumed that the already existent content in the wikipedia articles would actually save me a lot of work. This was a mistake. Reworking the original articles is such a PITA, that I seriously consider porting the content into another format to make this easier and also, because I believe it unlikely, that it will be accepted to mainline.

The current articles main purpose seems to be, to NOT help users searching for software. They are badly written, cluttered, full of useless information and (of course) unmaintained. It seams like somebody wants to rather strew sand in end users eyes, then thoroughly informing users. For example, in the articles for bittorrent clients and browsers there is much clutter and a strong emphasis for some impressive-wannabe usage statistics, so that inexperienced users will likely follow the herd and young software or simply better software be ignored and remain a niche-product.

I believe the structure below to be of a good assistance: (but this is not carved in stone!)

  1. Information for End Users
    1. Release Dates: First public & Latest stable, Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS, BSD, Other, User Interface: GUI, CLI, WebUI, Other (like TUI)
    2. Features I
    3. Features II
    4. Features III
  2. Information for Developers
    1. License, Libraries and programming/scripting language
  3. Libraries

Already Ported Articles


Articles to port

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