Freeplane
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Revision as of 14:38, 9 June 2023 by Dan Polansky (talk | contribs)
Freeplane is a fork of FreeMind, lead by Dimitry Polivaev.
Freeplane uses SourceForge for file downloads.
Freeplane uses GitHub as a code repository and for forums and tickets; it no longer uses SourceForge for these purposes.
System requirements:
- Freeplane-1.11.4 from 28 May 2023 requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 11 (released on 25 September 2018) or later through 17, according to freeplane.exe launcher and per freeplaneGui.lj4.xml source code file.
- The last version supporting JRE 1.8.0 was Freeplane 1.9.x series: Freeplane 1.9.14.
Announcements of the Freeplane fork in FreeMind forums:
- Freemind-developer: Vision of the second project, 2008-03-01, sourceforge.net
- Open Discussion: FreeMind fork, 2008-11-16, sourceforge.net
Visuals:
- Subjectively, as per Dan Polansky, Freeplane 1.9.14 looks, let's say, not so nice: the icons, the white background color in menus, everything says something's wrong. This is so not only in comparison to FreeMind, but also, say, Notepad++.
Download statistics:
- As 9 June 2023, Freeplane is downloaded about 14,000 times a week[1], whereas FreeMind is downloaded about 6,000 times a week[2]; in April, Freeplane was downloaded about 8,000 times a week.
- As 9 June 2023, FreeMind's last final release is from 12 April 2014, nearly a decade ago. Freeplane most recent release is from 28 May 2023.
See also
Links
- Freeplane homepage, docs.freeplane.org
- Freeplane project page, sourceforge.net
- freeplane, github.com
- freeplaneGui.lj4.xml, github.com -- indicates the required JRE version
