Sourceforge.net supports 100,000 developers in first year.Open Source Development Network (OSDN OSDN Open Source Development Network OSDN Open Source Developer Network .com), say that SourceForge.net, the world's largest ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). for Open Source developers, now supports over 100,000 registered users. Since its official launch exactly one year ago, SourceForge.net has expanded its base of supported projects to more than 13,000, including major projects such as MYSQL, Tel, Python Python, in Greek mythology Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent. In some myths the infant Apollo slew Python at the oracle of Gaea in Delphi; in others Apollo killed the serpent in order to claim the oracle for himself. , XFree86, KDE (K Desktop Environment) A GUI-based user interface primarily for Unix and Linux machines, but also available for Windows and Mac. The source code is freely distributed and is maintained by developers around the world. and Squid. To accommodate the rapid expansion of SourceForge.net, OSDN has added significant resources to the site, including additional personnel, bandwidth and VA Linux servers and storage systems. SourceForge.net's user base has grown at an average rate of more than 30% per month. SourceForge.net has also entered into a collaborative agreement with University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill's online library, ibiblio (www.ibiblio.org), which will serve as a mirror and partial fop site for SourceForge.net. With its roots in the former SunSITE (SunSITE.unc.edu) and MetaLab (MetaLab.unc.edu), ibiblio.org has historically played a key role in helping to expand and improve the archiving of information on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , with a significant librarylof Linux and Open Source software. www.linuxdoc.org |
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