Black Duck, a software-license code analysis vendor constantly evaluates open source software. Recently their list of top “rookie” open source software was released.

The winner was Google’s Android OS and closely followed by a variety of gaming, cloud computing and healthcare based software. The list is mainly compiled to be a fun event rather than provide any official rankings. The top ten were chosen from a base of 19,000 projects.

1. Live Android - This offering from Google allows users to run the OS on their PCs without affecting any files. It a method by which users can try the OS without buying an Android phone.

2. Open Health Natural Language Processing - IBM and the Mayo Clinic came together for this one, which gives Medical Clinics and Researchers access to documents such as clinical notes, pathology reports, etc.

3. Mobile Browser Definition File - This software enables developers to design accurate content for mobile phones and devices.
4. Redis (REmote Dictionary Server) - Supporting fast access to a dataset, this application is an advanced key store database. It also is capable of scaling up to cloud levels.

5. Samsher - Allows creation of striking effects from a variety of audio formats without the use of a sequencer. Filter sweeps, phasing, flanging, delay and distortion are some of the effects on offer.

6. AbiCloud - This tool gives users the capacity for scaling, managing, automatic and immediate provisioning of servers, storage, networks and virtual network devices, as well as applications.

7. Transdroid - A remote torrent client for the Android OS.

8. Rainmeter - Designed to measure performance indicators in a PC. E.g., CPU load, memory load, free disk space, etc.

9. TweetCraft - For the World of Warcraft addicts, this add-on enables Tweeting without leaving the game.

10. Native Client - Enables running of x86 native code in Web applications. The idea is to ensure safety, OS portability and browser neutrality.