The Apache Software Foundation manages the development of many Open Source Software packages, most notably the Apache web server. The Open Source Lab provides hosting for portions of the ASF's operational infrastructure.

Arklinux is a Linux desktop distribution designed to be easy enough for the linux newcomer to pick up and use. Hosted at the OSL is both the package build environment and the forward-facing services of arklinux (web, for example).

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices. The OSL hosts their website along with secondary DNS, seconday MX, and other miscellaneous services.

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendors redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. CentOS, as a project has grown many fold over the last few years and with this added growth has come the extra responsibility of making sure we have good reliable services that stay available 24/7. This is just the problem that OSUOSL's hosting facilities helps fix for us – they are available, professionally run and have a very competent team of people. Keeping this in mind, its at OSUOSL that we are building our level-1 backup and long term disaster recovery site.

CONNECT is an open source software solution that lets health IT systems and health information exchanges securely communicate with each other using nationally-recognized standards and guidelines. By using CONNECT, information can be easily shared among IT systems at doctor’s offices, federal agencies, state agencies, disability organizations, pharmacies, payors and other health stakeholders, making it possible for information to follow patients. CONNECT enables health information exchange within an organization, regionally, and at the national level using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) conventions and standards. The OSL serves as a main mirror for CONNECT downloads and hosts the CONNECT community website.

Debian Linux is a distribution known for its stability and roots in the free software philosophy. Hosted at the OSL you will find the server for bugs.debian.org, along with some of their internal infrastructure. We also have development environments for MIPS, PPC, SPARC, and Alpha ports.

Drupal is a php based content management system (CMS) used in many installations worldwide, along with quite a few here at OSU. Drupal needed assistance with a webserver that was crippled under the load of its own popularity. With the financial help of Drupal's users, the OSL has built a cluster for Drupal's sites that can scale along with the growth of its userbase.

The Eclipse Communication Framework is a project to add collaboration tools to the popular Eclipse development environment. These tools range from text-based chat to upcoming VoIP support. The OSL hosts cvs and development environments for the ECF team.

The Enlightenment project is best known for the Enlightenment window manager. The OSL hosts two servers for Enlightenment.

The Fedora Project is a community who's primary purpose is to lead the advancement of free, open software and content. Fedora, the Operating System, is the Fedora Project's flagship product. OSUOSL is hosting Fedora test servers, proof of concept hosts and other ad-hoc needs that Fedora often runs in to during the course of building a new Fedora release.

FOSSBazaar is an open community launched by HP and founding partners. As a workgroup of the Linux Foundation, they are dedicated to understanding the issues that exist with free and open source software (FOSS). This initiative serves the open source community as a forum representative of open source users and providers worldwide. The OSL hosts the FOSSBazaar web site.

The Freenode IRC Network facilitates open collaboration for people worldwide. It is used by many Open Source projects as well as Oregon State University. The OSL hosts a webserver and a handful of IRC nodes for the Freenode network.

GNOME offers an easy to understand desktop for your Linux or UNIX computer. GNOME is used in a variety of linux distributions as the default desktop environment for its ease of use. At the OSL we help the GNOME project with remote system monitoring of their infrastructure via a Nagios server.

GOSCON is the premier annual Government Open Source Conference organized by the OSU Open Source Lab. A national conference designed for government IT management , the mission of GOSCON is to provide leading edge education and a forum for cross-agency collaboration among government consortia. We also help public sector entities to evaulate the benefit of utililzing open and community-source methodologies for custom software development.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development. OSUOSL is responsible for hosting a Virtual Machine which hosts the Inkscape website, wiki, and various development builds.

Jenkins is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any and every project. The Open Source Lab provides both primary and secondary mirroring infrastructure along with virtualized machines to help the Jenkins development community.

Kernel.org is the main collaboration point for the Linux operating system kernel. The Kernel.org guys also run a major mirror site which is pushed from their master.kernel.org site here at the OSL. We also host the front end and statistical server for the test.kernel.org site.

The Linux Foundation promotes, protects, and standardizes Linux. To achieve these tasks, the LF provides legal services to Linux developers, collaborates on the Linux Standards Base (LSB), hosts events for the Linux community, and responds in the press to competitors' attacks on Linux. The OSL hosts the Linux Foundation's infrastructure including web sites, email, and development machines.

LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. They offer mailing lists, educational courses, and conference meetups for people interested in promoting the growth of Linux use by Women. The OSL is happy to host the Linuxchix.org server, sponsored by Intel Corporation.

MeeGo is an open source Linux-based platform that is capable of running on multiple computing devices, including handsets, netbooks,
tablets, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems. It is a Linux Foundation project which brings together the Moblin and Maemo projects into a single platform. The OSL hosts the infrastructure for the MeeGo project.

Mozillazine is a site devoted to users and developers of Mozilla applications. Here you can find third-party news reporting, user forums, and developer blogs from Mozilla devs. The OSL has helped Mozillazine to build a cluster that stands up to the needs of this growing community. Mozillazine is independent of the Mozilla Foundation.

MythTV is a homebrew PVR (Personal Video Recorder) project. Given the open nature of the project, it can be expanded to serve a variety of kiosk-like uses. The OSL hosts the mythtv.org server.

The NovaPorts team is dedicated to providing access to operating systems and utilities on portable devices in a manner which fully respects the intellectual property rights, copyrights, trademarks and other interests of the developers of those operating systems and utilities. We're very much guys in white hats.

At the same time, we strongly believe that if you bought a piece of hardware, it's yours and you should be able to run whatever you want on it that you have legally obtained. To that end, we intend to provide useful ports beginning with the Nook Color.

The OSL hosts most of their project sites via the Nas-Admin.org project.

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is creating an inexpensive laptop so that every child in the world can own one. The OSL is developing the multimedia functionality of the laptop, including video and audio playback. We are also hosting the OLPC support forums located at http://forum.laptop.org.

The Open Clip Art project is an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. The OSL hosts the project's web site and downloads.

The OSDV Foundation is building an open source election technology framework for adoption and deployment by U.S. jurisdictions nationwide. The Open Source Lab hosts web sites for the Foundation, the development servers for the TrustTheVote Project, and application servers for their partner's RockTheVote Voter Registration project.

OpenEFS provides software distribution and change control for heterogeneous clients using distributed filesystems, such as NFS v3, NFS v4, and OpenAFS. The OSL hosts the OpenEFS website, development site, code repository, mailing lists, and hosts downloads on our FTP mirror.

OpenMRS is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. Besides hosting http://openmrs.org/ OSUOSL currently manages Subversion repositories for the OpenMRS medical record system application and many of its add-on modules and affiliated projects.

The OSLUG is a student driven Linux Users Group here at OSU. The LUG's webserver is hosted here at the OSL.

The Participatory Culture Foundation was founded in 2005 with a mission to build tools and services that give people more ways to engage in their culture. The OSL hosts the downloads for the Miro video player, a part of PCF's platform for open media.

phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package, and is possibly the most popular web forum package used on the net today. We are proud to provide hosting for the phpBB web server.

The PPCKernel and penguinppc.org sites hosts informational resources for the PowerPC code of the Linux kernel. The sites host code and mailing lists pertaining to PowerPC. We host both of these sites on (appropriately) PPC hardware.

RPM is the package management system used by many Linux distributions including RedHat Enterprise, Fedora, SUSE, CentOS, Mandriva, and many others. The RPM format is also part of the Linux Standards Base. We host the rpm.org web site, ticket tracker, code repository, and mailing lists.

Slackware calls itself "The original Linux distribution, geared towards power and stability." Slackware makes use of the OSL's rsync infrastructure to distribute its packages to the rest of the worldwide Slackware mirror network.

TeachEngineering is a digital library of K-12 math and science curriculum. The library infrastructure is implemented entirely on Linux, is built with open source system development tools and is itself available under the GPL. The library is hosted by OSU's Open Source Lab and indexed by NSF's National Science Digital library (www.nsdl.org).

Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. The OSL hosts a download mirror of all TRK files. The mirror is located at: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/trk/

VectorLinux is a small, fast, Linux operating system for Intel, AMD and x86 compatible systems, based on one of the original Linux distributions, Slackware. The OSL hosts VectorLinux's primary distribution mirror.

WebOS Internals is a group of developers dedicated to the pursuit of an open environment of sharing information, code, and documentation related to Palm's webOS operating system.

WebOS Internals is also the main coordination body for the open standard homebrew ecosystem of applications, patches, themes, plugins, services and Linux utilities for webOS devices. At the leading edge of application development, WebOS Internals has pioneered techniques such as NPAPI browser plugins, Java and C native services, and hybrid applications.

The OSL hosts most of their project sites via the Nas-Admin.org project.