open source web

Last week's festive opening of Europeana, a EU funded digital library, was spoiled when its open source web servers crashed after getting three times the amount of requests they had been designed to handle.

Firefox is a free, open-source web browser for Windows, Linux and MacOS X and is based on the Mozilla codebase.

Camino 1.6.5 is an open source web browser based on Mozilla with a more Mac-like interface.

Techworld: "Microsoft has given its most ringing endorsement of open source Web browsers to date with chief executive officer Steve Ballmer not ruling out adopting such technology as an alternative to its own popular Internet Explorer, saying it is "interesting".

Google Chrome is an open-source web browser from Google, currently available only for the Windows platform. It aims to have a minimal and easy to use interface.

Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine, which was developed from KHTML, and it is used in various browsers like Konqueror on KDE4 or Safari (on Mac OS X).

LAMPShort for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, an open-source Web development platform, also called a Web stack, that uses Linux as the operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the RDBMS and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.

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TuxArena: "Google Chrome is an open-source web browser from Google, currently available only for the Windows platform.

It aims to have a minimal and easy to use interface. Chrome uses the WebKit rendering engine, which was developed from KHTML, and it is used in various browsers like Konqueror on KDE4 or Safari (on Mac OS X).

If you thought Apache was the only viable open source Web server out there, you thought wrong. nginx boasts a lightweight footprint and high load handling capabilities.

The Open Road: "The single biggest distributor of Drupal just might be Microsoft. As I discovered from Dries Buytaert's blog on Wednesday, Microsoft's Web Application Installer comes with out-of-the-box support for Drupal, OScommerce, and other popular open-source Web applications."

Whitebeam is an open source "Web Application Server" aimed to reduce the development cost of sophisticated web applications.