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Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?
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#42A Linux mobile operating system (i.e. revive Mer & Maemo). PostmarketOS is trying this, but they would benefit immensely from the above 2 getting tons of help as they are basically dead.
Tizen, webOS, LineageOS?
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#43Boodler - a Python based soundscape generation tool. http://boodler.org
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#44The lightweight and modern Linux desktop. LXQt is what I used to work on (I still help out once in a while), and it just doesn't have the manpower and organization required to produce something really good.
Working on the Desktop is a really interesting thing. The goal is to turn machines into something usable for, nowdays essentially browsing the web or gaming (with the oddball app that does more than that).
It's a very rewarding thing. Hit me up if you are interested: Swing by the #lxqt channel on IRC and DM me (jleclanche, or agaida if I'm not here). It's a place where you can get to either work on stuff that already exists, or make up your own new ideas, or help bring standards together.
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#47The lightweight and modern Linux desktop. LXQt is what I used to work on (I still help out once in a while), and it just doesn't have the manpower and organization required to produce something really good. Working on the Desktop is a really interesting thing. The goal is to turn machines into something usable for, nowdays essentially browsing the web or gaming (with the oddball app that does more than that). It's a…
what's wrong with xfce?
Re: Ask HN: What abandoned OSS project would you like to see revived?
#48Ubiquity for Firefox. It was an overlay that let you type commands to use and combine web services using natural language. It understood pronouns, so you could highlight text and say "map this" and it would look up the selection in Google maps. You would subscribe to command feeds that could be updated automatically for bug fixes or to keep up with changing APIs. By the time the project was abandoned, it had an advanced language engine with noun or verb autocomplete in multiple languages including different subject-verb-object orders.
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#49Dedoimedo featured some great projects recently, some of them abandoned: http://www.ocsmag.com/2018/03/21/the-magnificent-seven-uniqu...
The unmaintained ones seem to be Kaptan (desktop configuration wizard) and TeenPup Magic Scripts (drag and drop scripts), not sure about Unity Dash.
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#50Ubuntu one. It was a dropbox alternative but it was abandoned. They made the code available but I never managed to get it to work on my own server.