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authorAaron Ball <nullspoon@oper.io>2019-09-28 16:59:31 -0600
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Convert Favorite OSS Projects from adoc to rst
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My Favorite Open Source Projects
-=================
-:author: Aaron Ball
-:email: nullspoon@iohq.net
-
-
-== {doctype}
+================================
I really enjoy open source software. It is somewhat lost on me why most
enterprises are so heavily dependant on proprietary software when the open
@@ -20,85 +15,83 @@ are some of my favorite projects right now (not necessarily in order or
awesomeness)
-[[server-software]]
-== Server Software
+Server Software
+---------------
-1. **http://www.linux.com[Linux]**: I'm a fan of
- http://www.debian.org/[Debian] (yeah yeah yeah, I don't want to hear
- about the political war going on around this one).
+1. `Linux <https://www.linux.com>`_: I'm a fan of `Debian
+ <https://www.debian.org>`_ (yeah yeah yeah, I don't want to hear about the
+ political war going on around this one).
-2. **http://archlinux.org[Arch Linux]**: Severed limb style bleeding edge
+2. `Arch Linux <https://archlinux.org>`_: Severed limb style bleeding edge
Linux distribution. Requires a medium to high level of Linux experience to
even get it installed unless you're looking for a really great Saturday
afternoon project (because what IT guy wakes up before 11:00 on a Saturday
anyways).
-3. **http://git-scm.com[Git]**: Code Versioning System. Not easy for mere
+3. `Git <https://git-scm.com>`_: Code Versioning System. Not easy for mere
mortals at first, as someone once said. It sure is amazingly powerful.
-4. **http://www.mediawiki.org[Mediawiki]**: Standard wiki but it's really
+4. `MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org>`_: Standard wiki but it's really
great for blogging, team documentation, project documentation tracking, etc.
- https://wikipedia.org[Wikipedia] runs on this.
+ `Wikipedia <https://wikipedia.org>`_ runs on this.
-5. **http://www.php.net/[PHP]**: Server side script language. Fantastic for
+5. `PHP <https://www.php.net/>`_ Server side script language. Fantastic for
building websites. Also really amazing replacement for Perl for server side
scripting in my opinion. Supports object oriented programming and is under
constant development. I really can't say enough good things about this
project.
-6. **https://mariadb.org[MariaDB]**: Forked from the MySql project by its
- founder, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Widenius[Monty Widenius] when
- the open source grimm reaper...er...Oracle/Sun acquired it in 2008 (no, I'm
- not opinionated at all).
+6. `MariaDB <https://mariadb.org>`_: Forked from the MySql project by its
+ founder, `Monty Widenius <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Widenius>`_
+ when the open source grimm reaper...er...Oracle/Sun acquired it in 2008 (no,
+ I'm not opinionated at all).
-7. **http://httpd.apache.org[Apache]/http://nginx.org[Nginx]**: Two really
+7. `Apache <https://httpd.apache.org>`_ / `NGINX <https://nginx.org>`_: Two really
solid web servers that currently occupy the top two slots on the most widely
used web servers in the world (yay for open source!)
-8. **http://www.ejabberd.im[ejabberd]**: Pretty popular XMPP server software
+8. `EJabberd <https://www.ejabberd.im/>`_: Pretty popular XMPP server software
with a good developement speed. Built with erlang.
-[[desktop-software]]
-== Desktop Software
+Desktop Software
+----------------
-1. **http://archlinux.org[Arch Linux]**: Hey look! I used this one twice! ...
+1. `Arch Linux <https://archlinux.org>`_: Hey look! I used this one twice! ...
Severed limb style bleeding edge Linux distribution. Requires a medium to
high level of Linux experience to even get it installed unless you're
looking for a really great Saturday afternoon project (because what IT guy
wakes up before 11:00 on a Saturday anyways).
-2. **http://www.xfce.org/[XFCE]**: Desktop interface for Linux.
+2. `XFCE <https://www.xfce.org/>`_: Desktop interface for Linux.
-3. **http://www.pidgin.im[Pidgin]**: Instant messaging
+3. `Pidgin <https://www.pidgin.im>`_: Instant messaging client
-4. **http://www.libreoffice.org[Libre Office]**: Document authoring (MS Word,
+4. `LibreOffice <https://www.libreoffice.org>`_: Document authoring (MS Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
-5. **http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils[The GNU Core Utils]**: chmod,
- chown, ls, cut, tail, wc, su, w, etc. Full list of commands provided can be
- found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities[here]. Basically, if
+5. `GNU Core Utils <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils>`_: chmod, chown,
+ ls, cut, tail, wc, su, w, etc. Full list of commands provided can be found
+ `here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities>`__. Basically, if
you use Linux command line ever, these are the majority of the tools you use
most frequently. Despite all the politics surrounding Mr. Stallman and his
amazing beard, the GNU project has done a great job with the core utils, bin
utils, diff utils, file utils, and
- http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs[everything else] they've done.
+ `everything else <https://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs>`_ they've done.
-6. **http://www.blender.org[Blender]**: 3D modeling (not for the faint of
+6. `Blender <https://www.blender.org>`_: 3D modeling (not for the faint of
heart)
-7. **http://inkscape.org[Inkscape]**: Vector imaging. Good replacement for
+7. `Inkscape <https://inkscape.org>`_: Vector imaging. Good replacement for
Adobe Illustrator
-8. **http://www.keepassx.org[KeePassx]**: Encrypted password database for
- Linux. Windows equivelant is http://keepass.info/[KeePass].
+8. `KeePassX <https://www.keepassx.org>`_: Encrypted password database for
+ Linux. Windows equivelant is `KeePass <https://keepass.info/>`_.
-9. **http://www.gimp.org[Gimp]**: Great replacement for Photoshop, especially
+9. `Gimp <https://www.gimp.org>`_: Great replacement for Photoshop, especially
given that most people purchase Photoshop [Elements] and use it to crop and
autocolor images. I can't speak highly enough of this software. It may take
- a bit to learn, but it is tremendously powerful.
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninepan/galleries/72157626688146138/[Here] is a
+ a bit to learn, but it is tremendously powerful. `Here
+ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninepan/galleries/72157626688146138/>`__ is a
great list of images that people have made using Gimp.
-
-// vim: set syntax=asciidoc:

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