Open Source Software: Reviews and Links

Anyone know an opensource alternative to IIS that runs on Windows and handles ASPX?
 
Yeah, but...

dacha said:
The Mono project indicates it can run ASP applications, even on Linux :).

I'm not sure what else IIS does, do Apache and Squid cover everything?
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It is more a test server on Windows:
Requirements for mono to work with ASPX:

On Linux & Apache:
Mod_mono

Libgdiplus (for graphics)

On Windows:
XSP (stand alone server) – included with the windows download
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From their web pages:
Does Mono's ASP.NET run on Linux ?
Yes. And on all the platforms on which mono runs. In Windows you must use XSP as mod_mono can't work with the Windows version of Apache, nor with IIS.

Should I use mod_mono or XSP?
mod_mono will allow you to integrate Mono and ASP.NET web pages in an existing Apache installation which means that you get all the benefits that Apache has and you can mix on a single server many other services.

XSP is a very limited web server which is used typically during development or for testing. Although some people use it for production, but this server is not likely going to ever grow to support all the features that Apache has. XSP at this point only implements HTTP 1.0 with a few extensions (keep-alive is the most important one), but no work is currently underway to support HTTP 1.1

Does mod_mono run on Windows?
mod_mono at this point only runs on Unix systems. There is a patch (to be reviewed) that makes mod_mono compile work on the Windows version of Apache.
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So far it looks like I need IIS to do ASP.NET - That SUCKS!
 
Anyone used M$'s free Webmatrix for ASP.NET pages? Although, not sure about it being open source...
 
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UserName/password

zefram said:
Not a web design app, but one great open source app I discovered a few days ago is avidemux2.

It makes video conversion/compression very easy. Supports mostly anything :-)

It comes out for Linux and Windows: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
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Am I stupid? When I try to download this application it looks for a user name and password. Where do I get this? Am very intersted in having a look at the programme. pse help
 
mh348 said:
nVu opensource alternative to Dreamweaver, great app, it's on the Go-opensource cd, If anyone wants a copy of the CD, just pm me and I'll send a copy, but you'll have to pay for postage & packaging (& cd if Free copies are finished). See Here for More Info
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Since development has slowed to molasses speed on Nvu, I suggest using KompoZer. It is Nvu's unofficial bug-fix release with loads of improvements. Use it for my site, and am a tester on the OSX release that recently came out.

Rumor has it that Nvu will be re-released under Mozilla development, but we all can't wait for them to code to use a stable product. ;)
 
To simulate an Apache/mySQL/phpMyAdmin environment on XP home I use WAMP (XAMP for Linux) available here http://www.e-novative.info/. XP home doesn't come with IIS so web development is not possible, but with this you're ready to do PHP/HTML/mySQL development work with Maguma Studio from www.maguma.com. Turned a rather useless laptop into a proper development machine.
Also running EasyPHP a complete installer for Apache/mySQL/phpAdmin which serves the same purpose as WAMP.
 
Just a few that I use regularly:

7zip - Better compression than zip, many supported formats (rar, zip, bz2, tar, ...)
Azureus - Bittorrent (P2P) Client.
FileZilla - FTP client. Support for many FTP-like protocols (sFTP, telnet).
Free Download Manager, aka FDM - The name says it all. Similar to GetRight and DAP.
Notepad++ - Small (1.5Mb) text/source code editor with auto complete and colour coding for many languages.
OpenVPN - VPN client and server
Shareaza - Another P2P. Support for downloading 1 file from multiple P2P networks.
unxutils - Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities. Helps when you have to work on Windows when you are used to the linux command prompt.
Eclipse - Originally a Java IDE (from IBM I think), but plugins to support any programming language you can think of.
Audacity - Audio editor.
 
infoseeker said:
Lotsa stuff here

http://www.kde-apps.org/
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KDE has some nifty and powerful programs for it.

Im running Fedora 7 and using Quanta for web dev and KLinkstatus to make sure I havent got any broken links in the site structure :p

It is slowly becoming possible to run most types of companies complete off open-source, which is terrific, especially with the leading names like HP SA
 
morph1 said:
Anyone tried Dot Net Nuke? Open source framework for web apps...
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
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Hi Morph,

I'm busy having a look at it now. (Version 4.x).

Have you used it before? I need some guidance :D

I've managed to install it but am concerned about all the files that need to be uploaded to the hosting server ect.

Cheers
J
 
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It does take a little effort to get going, but it is awesome and easy to use once set up and there are so many modules you can add, which really make it nice...
The site and forum is probably the best place for info.
Cheers
 
Anyone come across an OSS COBOL compiler?

I'm involved in training a bunch of newbies and don't want to go through the whole process of teaching them MVS and JCL before they can do a simple 'hello world' program.

All the pc based compilers I've checked out so far are windows based, and we were hoping to be able run the pc's off suse
 
Hi all,

I just stumbled across this topic & dont want to 'spam' this forum.

I 'work' for myself & am a open-source advocate, in that I offer solutions to propriety software by means of open-source alternatives (in so many words)

The fact is that I have just recently (in the last month or so) uploaded a web page & started a forum to discuss just such a thing.

Becuase as I said I dont want to spam this forum, If anyone would like to contribute in this vein at my forum, I would like to post a link (wont do so until I know its ok with myadsl admins & everyone else.

But the general idea is just this plus more (Linux discussions, swapping etc).

Sad to say I havent yet got any members :(

So if someone wants link, let me know and also if admins have no prob, I will post.

Thanx all
 
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