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SourceForge has more bandwidth (IIRC) and has mirrors all over the world. I download from SF daily.
by JohnTHaller 14y ago
SourceForge has more bandwidth (IIRC) and has mirrors all over the world. I download from SF daily.
- phillmv 14y agoGod bless sourceforge; they were there at the beginning in our time of need. At this point, however, GitHub is a far larger organization. They host an order of magnitude more projects.
- JohnTHaller 14y agoGitHub is more popular for code management of underpinnings (think jquerry, twitter backend stuff, etc) but SourceForge is far more popular for actual apps. Nearly all the most popular GitHub projects, if you click downloads, you're met with "There aren't any downloads yet. But don't worry! You can download the source code as a zip or tarball above." SourceForge, on the other hand, is all about apps, usually cross-platform, that users can download and use (VLC, Pidgin, GIMP-Windows+Mac, OpenOffice, Inkscape, KeePass, etc). So, I think GitHub is more popular with coders, but SourceForge is far more popular with users and app makers.