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July 2006 Finding Open-Source Solutions for Linux From the July 2006 Edition of Windows IT Pro Dustin Puryear Solutions + InstantDoc #50289 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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Finding Open-Source Solutions for Linux

To explore the many open-source applications available for Linux, go to the SourceForge.net Web site at http://source forge.net. SourceForge.net hosts thousands of open-source projects not only for Linux, but for other OSs as well, including Windows. For Linux-and UNIX-specific pointers to open-source projects, also visit freshmeat at http://www.freshmeat.net. In recent years, freshmeat has become a great place to find open-source solutions for your project.

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