Source Forge

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What is SourceForge

A web base source code repository SourceForge has a large collection of

open source tools and application It is a community based

collaboration. Centralized location for developer to

control and manage open source and software development

About SourceForge

Currently it has over 340,000 software projects.

It serves over 4 million downloads per day.

Has over 2million users Free

Interesting Features the Site Provides

IRC Channel Blog Download popular Projects Unique sub-domain URL’s. Free Membership system

SourceForge Main Pagehttp://sourceforge.net

Create an Account

Log In

Search

Create a Project

Sample Project

Project Functions

SourceForge vs. GitHub Source Forge offers open source software, but GitHub’s focus is on code

hosting and project Management . Source Forge has over 2 million registered users while Github has little over

1 million. SourceForge is used for project management, while Github is essentially a

place to put your code for others to view.

**GitHub doesn’t allow full projects.

**SourceForge has unlimited storage space while GitHub has 300 Mb Limit.

SouceForge has free private repository.

Shell Server Web Hosting Mailing List Forum

SouceForge Yes Yes Yes Yes

GitHub No Yes No No

SourceForge vs. GitHubAvailable Control Systems

CVS SVM Git Mercurial

Source Forge

Yes Yes Yes Yes

GitHub No *Yes(Experimental)

Yes No

**Control System: Keeps tracks of software revision.

Some Available Softwares

Editors and IDE’s Eclipse Orwell Dev-C++ CLUE - C Learning Undergrad Environment Notepad ++ Vim

Bug Trackers

BugZilla

Project Management

Project- Open Plandora Project Management

Some Available Softwares

Database Web Hosting XAMPP MySQL

Software Configuration Management

Scrinch Git

Conclusion

Good place to obtain useful software, including IDE’s, bug trackers, and project management tools.

Useful for collaborating on group projects.

Citationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge

https://sourceforge.net/about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities

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