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For our August 2019 “Community Choice” Project of the Month, the community elected Evolution X, an AOSP based ROM with Pixel UI, Android Q vibes, customization and more. Project Founder and Lead Developer Joey Huab shared some thoughts about the project’s history, purpose, and direction.

SourceForge (SF): Tell me about the Evolution X project please. What made you start this?
Joey Huab (JH): I really aimed to provide a custom ROM that had the Pixel phone’s software UI (which is different from other Android devices) and this is the result. I tried to make it look different than all the other available custom ROMs.

SF: Has the original vision been achieved?
JH: So far, so good. We’ve managed to keep the thing looking like the Pixels while adding several customization features from other custom ROMs that were requested by our users!

SF: Who can benefit the most from your project?
JH: It’s mostly Android custom ROM users, as we are doing our best to provide support for more Android devices. We currently have support for more than 30+ Android devices and we’re looking to provide to even more.

SF: What core need does Evolution X fulfill?
JH: We mostly satisfy the Android users’ need to have a simple, clean yet also stable Android experience full of customization features.

SF: What’s the best way to get the most out of using Evolution X?
JH: Use every feature we add in and play with the customization features!

SF: What has your project team done to help build and nurture your community?
JH: We’ve put up telegram channels and XDA threads that link to our SourceForge project for download links.

SF: Have you found that more frequent releases helps build up your community of users?
JH: Yes. A lot more users have used Evolution X since our updates are more frequent than other custom ROMs.

SF: What was the first big thing that happened for your project?
JH: Getting recognized by other developers in the Android world. To get recognition from other developers means you have made an impact.

SF: What helped make that happen?
JH: Our marketing and social media efforts have helped spread Evolution X to other devices. Especially once we gained a following, people kept asking for support for their own devices.

SF: How has SourceForge and its tools helped your project reach that success?
JH: SourceForge has assisted us by providing us the proper avenue in order to provide builds and organize them into folders that is on a per-device basis.

SF: What is the next big thing for Evolution X?
JH: We’re currently preparing for our Android Q bring-up as it will be released in a few months.

SF: How long do you think that will take?
JH: Might take 2-4 months depending on the availability of the source code.

SF: Do you have the resources you need to make that happen?
JH: I’m sure we do. We have the proper tools in GitHub, servers and of course, SourceForge to support our builds!

SF: If you had to do it over again, what would you do differently for Evolution X?
JH: I would have probably had added more features in the beginning of our first releases to have made it more likable to more users.

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Here are the featured projects for the week, which appear on the front page of SourceForge.net:

Clonezilla
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition).
[ Download Clonezilla ]

slackel
Slackel is a Linux distribution based on Slackware and Salix. It is fully compatible with Slackware and Salix but the difference is that it includes the current version of Slackware. So Slackware users can benefit from Slackel repositories. It is available in three editions, KDE, Openbox and Fluxbox. Slackel disc images are offered in two different forms, Installation disc image and Live disc image. Slackel is developed in Greece by Dimitris Tzemos. Slackel means Greek Slackware. Slackware + Hellenic (Greek). Slackel’s goal is to be a stable, fast and light distribution. Slackel is multilingual.
[ Download slackel ]

ArcoLinuxB Community Editions
At ArcoLinux we learn how to build our personal iso aka BYOI. This is Phase 4 in our learning path. We can reuse the ArcoLinux iso and build any desktop environment on it you want. You decide what applications to install. Then we build an iso. All the iso’s created in Phase 4 of our learning path will be hosted here on Sourceforge. https://arcolinuxb.com/ We call iso’s created with the BYOI scripts from github/arcolinuxb : ArcoLinuxB iso’s. It is not our goal to maintain these iso’s. We will update them ad hoc. Mainly to test if the scripts are still working. The goal is always to follow the BYOI articles and build the iso yourself. Then the last updates and improvements will be included. And that is the ideal way. Use the iso’s to get a taste of what YOU can achieve/build by running the BYOI script.
[ Download ArcoLinuxB Community Editions ]

ColtOS
What’s ColtOS: ColtOS Project is presented by a team of learners and it is crafted from AOSP Source with all the necessary customizations, without compromising the stability and security of the device. We have picked features from many other ROMs and we are grateful to all of them! We are happy to announce the release of Colt-OS Chilly based on Android 8.1. Team ColtOS: We, The ColtTeam, are a small group of working professionals from entirely different industry and have no relation to Android, Programming or Codes. As mentioned earlier, we are a young and growing team of learners. Thanks to entire ColtOS team for giving their precious time to this Project. @Rakesh.Batra : Lead Developer and Founder of ColtOS @nitin.chobhe(Project Contibutor) @Roger.T(Graphics Designer) @HAKrBOY(Graphics Designer) @Nik_ (Project Contibutor) @meet1811 (Moderator) @SuperDroidBond (Contributor) @mukesh22584 (Contributor) @Frozen_Lemon @AnupamDMoran @srvroxstar
[ Download ColtOS ]

PyScripter
PyScripter is an open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial IDEs available for other languages. It is a feature-rich but also lightweight. Please note that 64-bit installers and portable versions are available under “Files”.
[ Download PyScripter ]

Liquid Remix

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CiteSpace
CiteSpace generates interactive visualizations of structural and temporal patterns and trends of a scientific field. It facilitates a systematic review of a knowledge domain through an in-depth visual analytic process. CiteSpace can process citation data from popular sources such as the Web of Science, Scopus, and Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI). CiteSpace supports citation-based studies using open-access sources such as Dimensions and CrossRef. CiteSpace also supports a smaller set of visual analytic functions for datasets without citation-related information, for example, PubMed, CNKI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. In essence, CiteSpace reveals how a field of research has evolved, what intellectual turning points are evident along a critical path, and what topics have attracted attention. CiteSpace can be applied repeatedly so as to track the development of a field closely and extensively.
[ Download CiteSpace ]

Zabbix
Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more. An enterprise-class distributed monitoring solution for networks & apps
[ Download Zabbix ]

crDroid Android
crDroid is a free Android based ROM, bringing a lot of features that are most advanced in terms of customization and stability!
[ Download crDroid Android ]

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The vote for September 2019 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until August 15, 2019 12:00 UTC. To cast your vote, please visit the link above. Votes left in the comments section of this blog post will not be counted.

vJoy
This project was originally designed to provide an open-source replacement for PPJoy. The product, at this point, consists of virtual joystick devices that is seen by the system as a standard joystick but its position-data is written to it by a feeder application. An existing feeder application that takes advantage of this product is SmartPropoPlus. If you are an application writer you can very easily write an application that controls a joystick (e.g. mouse-to-joystick, keyboard-to-joystick). If you are a beginner in device drivers you can take this code and enhance it to support more (or less) axes, buttons or POVs.
[ Download vJoy ]

dotOS-downloads

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Tcl
Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. Bug reports to http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/ Follow code development at http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/
[ Download Tcl ]

Fedberry
Fedberry is a Fedora Remix specifically built for use with Raspberry Pi® 2/3 Model B computers. The major differences between Fedora arm releases as compared to FedBerry releases are: • The use of our own custom kernels (using the Raspberry Pi foundation’s bcm2709 kernel port). • The use of Raspberry Pi foundation’s own bootloader (ie. we don’t use uboot). • The use of swap files in lieu of swap partitions. • tmpfs is enabled but size limited to 100M. • The root partition is automatically expanded on first boot. • Various RPi specific applications / software are included by default. • To facilitate optional headless booting, a default root password is set in the ‘minimal’ release. For further information on Fedberry releases please visit fedberry.org or https://github.com/fedberry/fedberry.
[ Download Fedberry ]

UltraDefrag
UltraDefrag is a disk defragmenter for Windows, which supports defragmentation of locked system files by running during the boot process. It is easy to use without any complicated scripting or a huge load of configuration settings. You can filter the files processed by size, number of fragments, file name and path. You can terminate the process early by specifying an execution time limit.
[ Download UltraDefrag ]

Eraser
Eraser is a secure data removal tool for Windows. It completely removes sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
[ Download Eraser ]

RevolutionOS-MIUI
For Changelog, full characteristics, etc see on website.
[ Download RevolutionOS-MIUI ]

Apache OpenOffice Extensions
The official catalog of Apache OpenOffice extensions. You’ll find extensions ranging from dictionaries to tools to import PDF files and to connect with external databases. Extensions can improve your productivity, and are easy to use.
[ Download Apache OpenOffice Extensions ]

ezwinports
This project is a collection of ports to MS-Windows of GNU and Unix software packages, which either don’t have precompiled Windows binaries available, or whose existing ports are buggy or broken. All the ports are built using the MinGW development environment, with or without MSYS.
[ Download ezwinports ]

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