List of open-source software packages - Definition and Overview

This is a list of open-source software packages: Computer software licensed under an open source license. Software that fits the Free software definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as "open source". For more information about the philosophical background for open source software, see open source movement and free software movement. However, nearly all software meeting the Open Source Definition is also Free Software, so it is all listed here.

See also: list of Unix programs, list of GNU packages, freeware, shareware, public domain, proprietary software, Freshmeat, SourceForge

Databases

• Firebird
• JEDI Database Desktop
• Kexi
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Ingres
• SQLite
• One$DB

Graphical user interface

Windowing system

• X.Org
• XFree86

Desktop environments

• GNOME
• GNUstep
• KDE
• Xfce
• Ximian
• XPde

Window managers

• AfterStep
• Blackbox
• Ctwm
• Enlightenment
• Fluxbox
• FVWM
• IceWM
• Ion
• Kahakai
• Kwin
• Metacity
• Openbox
• Oroborus
• PekWM
• PWM
• Ratpoison
• Sawfish
• Twm
• Waimea
• Window Maker
• WindowLab
• WMI

Document editing

Office software suites

• OpenOffice.org (similar functionality to Microsoft Office, including file compatibility; excepting for database - Access-)
• KOffice
• Gnome Office

Note-taking

• KeyNote http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
• FreeMind - Mind mapping software
• Tomboy [1] (http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy)

PDF-writing

• Scribus — User-friendly but powerful Desktop Publishing
• Ghostscript
• ReportLab has an open source PDF library
• PDFCreator
• xPDF

Scientific Text Editors

• GNU TeXmacs [2] (http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html)
• Kile
• LyX

Text editors

• FreeDOS edlin
• GNU Emacs
• Gedit
• jEdit
• Kate text editor
• Kedit
• Nano — A free clone of Pico.
• NEdit
• Notepad2 — Small and fast with syntax highlighting.
• SciTE — A cross-platform text editor written using the Scintilla editing component.
• Tail For Win32
• Vim
• Katoob

Word processing

• AbiWord

Educational

Learning support

• Whiteboard [3] (http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/)
• ILIAS [4] (http://www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/index-e.html)
• Moodle [5] (http://moodle.org/)
• Dokeos [6] (http://www.dokeos.com/)

Language

• FlashKard
• Kiten
• KLettres
• KMessedWords
• KVerbos
• KVocTrain

Mathematics

• GAP [7] (http://www.gap-system.org/) - Groups, Algorithms, Programming - System for Computational Discrete Algebra
• GNU Octave [8] (http://www.octave.org/) - Clone of MATLAB
• GNUPlot [9] (http://www.gnuplot.info/) - high quality function plotting with command line interface, incorporates GNUFit for nonlinear regression (curve fitting)
• KBruch
• KGeo
• Kig
• KmPlot
• KPercentage
• KSEG
• LabPlot [10] (http://labplot.sourceforge.net/download.html) - nonlinear regression (curve fitting) - Microcal Origin Clone
• Maxima [11] (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/) - Analytical function handling, similar to the Maple computer algebra system
• PARI/GP [12] (http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/) - Factorisation, Elliptical Curves
• QtiPlot [13] (http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html) - nonlinear regression (curve fitting) - Microcal Origin Clone
• R programming language [14] (http://www.r-project.org/) - very powerful, but hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistical functions, similar to S programming language
  • RKWard [15] (http://rkward.sourceforge.net/) - frontend to R
• XMgrace [16] (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/) - 2D drawing, data plotting, nonlinear regression (curve fitting), formerly called xmgr
• Yacas [17] (http://www.xs4all.nl/~apinkus/yacas.html)

Science

• Celestia—a 3D space simulation program.
• Kalzium
• KStars

Typing

• GNU Typist
• KTouch
• Tux Typing

Other educational programs

• KEduca

Finance

• GnuCash
• JCash
• JMoney

Games

• Arianne
• Abuse
• Ace of penguins
• Adventure
• Angband
• Armagetron — futuristic motorcycle racing game
• Avanor
• Bombardier
• Circus Linux
• Crossfire
• Daimonin
• Egoboo
• Falcon's Eye — Nethack with graphics
• FlightGear — Flight Simulator
• FooBillard
• Freeciv
• Freecraft
• Frozen Bubble
• Gltron
• Gnugo
• Hack
• Java Risk
• KFoulEggs
• KHangMan
• Klickety
• KMines
• Koules
• KPat
• KReversi
• KSirtet
• LinCity
• Maelstrom
• Moria
• NetHack
• Netrek
• noeGNUd
• Openglad
• Penguin Command
• Pingus
• QBlood
• Quiz
• Stratagus
• SuperTux
• Truffle-Swine Keeper
• Tuxpuck
• Tux Bowl — a 3D American Football game
• Tux Racer
• Tyrant - Java Roguelike
• UFO2000 — a multiplayer remake of X-COM: UFO Defense ( http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/ )
• Vegastrike — Space Combat Simulator
• VideoToons
• WinBoard
• Xconq
• Xgalaga
• Xjump
• XPilot
• Xtux
• XulMine — Mozilla-based

See List of free game software

Groupware

• Kolab
• Kroupware
• OpenGroupware.org
• PHProjekt

Content management systems

• b2evolution
• Drupal
• e107
• Envolution
• Geeklog
• Lenya
• Mambo Open source
• myPHPNuke [18] (http://www.myphpnuke.com/)
• Nuxeo CPS
• PHP-Nuke
• phpWebSite
• Plone
• Postnuke
• Scoop
• Slashcode
• Typo3
• Xaraya
• Xoops (http://www.xoops.org)

Weblog systems

• bBlog
• Coreblog (http://coreblog.org/)
• Pebble (http://www.simongbrown.com/pebble.html)
• Pivot (http://www.pivotlog.net)
• pLog (http://www.plogworld.org/)
• Textpattern [19] (http://textpattern.com)
• WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org)

Wiki systems

• ErfurtWiki (http://erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net/), based on WikiWikiWeb and written in PHP.
• Flexwiki (http://www.flexwiki.com/), written in ASP.NET
• Kwiki (http://kwiki.org/), written in Perl
• MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net), powers Wikipedia.
• OpenWikiNG (http://www.openwiki.info/)
• Pmwiki (http://www.pmwiki.org/)
• PhpWiki (http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/), based on WikiWikiWeb and written in PHP.
• Twiki (http://twiki.org/)
• TikiWiki (http://tikiwiki.org/)
• UseModWiki
• ZWiki (http://zwiki.org/), a wiki product add-on to Zope (http://zope.org/)

Networking and Internet

E-mail

• KMail
• Magic Mail Monitor 3
• Mahogany Mail
• Mozilla - part of the Mozilla browser suite
• Mozilla Thunderbird - A standalone Gecko based e-mail and newsreader program derived from Mozilla's Mail component.
• Mutt
• Phoenix Mail
• POPFile
• Sylpheed
• Novell Evolution

Instant messaging

• Adium - AOL Instant Messenger client for Mac OS X
• Exodus
• Fire
• Gaim
• Jabberzilla
• Kopete
• Licq
• Miranda IM
• Psi
• Simple Instant Messenger
• WinJab
• aMSN — Alvaro's Messenger, or Another MSN messenger clone

Communication-related

• Chatzilla — Mozilla-based IRC chat client
• irssi — text-mode IRC chat client
• Slrn — a newsreader
• Speak Freely — Internet voice chat
• XChat — IRC chat client, Windows version is shareware.

File transfer

• FileZilla
• lftp
• NcFTP (site (http://www.ncftp.com/))
• Samba — an implementation of the Microsoft-compatible SMB network protocols
• gFTP

P2P file sharing

• Azureus — A Java-based Bittorrent client.
• ctorrent
• DC++
• giFT
• Gnucleus
• Lime Wire
• MLDonkey
• eMule
• BitTorrent
• Shareaza - Open sourced as of June 2004
• WASTE
• mutella (http://mutella.sourceforge.net) A text mode gnutella client
• Freenet (http://www.freenetproject.org) Secure Filesharing with encryption

Remote access

• RealVNC
• TightVNC
• UltraVNC

Web browsers

• Epiphany
• Galeon
• K-Meleon
• Konqueror
• Links
• Lynx
• Mozilla
• Mozilla Firefox
• BookmarkSync - Not actually a browser but a tool for browsers. BookmarkSync keeps your Favorites/Bookmarks in sync across the browsers installed on your machine, and also between computers.

Webcam

• Dorgem
• Fwink

Webgrabber

• cURL
• HTTrack
• Wget

Web-related

• Apache — the most popular web server
• Jakarta Tomcat — a servlet container and standalone webserver
• Squid cache — web proxy cache
• Zope — a web application server

Other networking programs

• JBidWatcher — Java-based auction bid watching program
• OpenLDAP — an open source LDAP server
• openVXI — an open source VoiceXML interpreter

Maths

• GAP — (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) computational discrete algebra, mainly for group theory.
• KSEG interactive geometry program for exploring Euclidean geometry.
• LaTeX — mathematical typesetting system.
• MAXIMA — a computer algebra system, based on the original Macsyma
• NTL — number theory library
• Octave — a MATLAB-style language.
• PARI/GP — computer algebra system.
• R — Computational statistic package.
• SINGULAR — polynomial computations, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, and singularity theory.
• Yacas — computer algebra system.

Media

Audio editors / audio management

• Audacity
• CD-DA X-Tractor
• CDex
• LAME
• Ogg Vorbis
• Streamripper

See Free audio software

Graphics

• Blender — 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback
• BRL-CAD — 3D solid modeling computer-aided design and much much more
• Crystal Space — 3D gaming graphics engine
• Dia
• The GIMP — Photoshop replacement
• GOCR/JOCR — GNU OCR program
• Hugin Image combiming, panorama creation, cross platform
• Inkscape — SVG Vector graphics editor
• JImage Mosaic
• Liquid — 3D graphics editor
• Moonlight 3D
• Panorama Tools
• QCad — 2D CAD '(newer versions are no longer open-source)'
• Simple DirectMedia Layer — a platform independent graphics library, primarily intended for game development
• Sodipodi — SVG Vector graphics editor

Image galleries

• Album Shaper
• Gallery
• Coppermine Gallery

Image viewers

• JavaExplorer
• Java Image Browser and Sorter
• JCDSee
• JImageView — Java-based
• SlideShow Picture Viewer
• WinPhoto

Media players

• CoolPlayer
• VLC media player
• Totem
• Xine
• Zinf
• MPlayer
• Media Player Classic
• K!TV - TV viewing & recording program

Video editing

• Avisynth
• Cinelerra
• DScaler
• GNU VCDImager
• Jahshaka
• Kino
• VirtualDub
• VirtualDubMod

CD-writing software

• Cdrdao [20] (http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/)
• Cdrecord [21] (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html)
• Cdw [22] (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/cdw)
• Freeburn [23] (http://freeburn.sourceforge.net/)
• Gcombust [24] (http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/)
• Gnome Toaster [25] (http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/)
• K3b [26] (http://k3b.plainblack.com/index.pl/home)
• X-CD-Roast [27] (http://www.xcdroast.org/)

Operating systems

• Contiki
• DragonFly BSD
• ECos
• FreeBSD
• FreeDOS
• GNU Hurd
• Haiku
• Linux
• Menuet
• NetBSD
• NewOS
• OpenBSD
• Plan 9
• ReactOS
• Syllable

Password management

• KeePass
• Password Safe
• PINs

Personal information managers

• Chandler — In development by Mitch Kapor and the OSAF.
• Elephant Memory
• KAddressbook
• KNotes
• KonsoleKalendar
• Kontact
• KOrganizer
• Mozilla Calendar — A Mozilla-based, multiplatform calendar program.
• Multisync (software)
• Treeline
• Novell Evolution

Programming language support

• DJGPP — a 32-bit DOS port of GCC
• Eclipse IDE — an extensible integrated development environment
• GCC — a set of compilers for multiple programming languages and platforms, including
  • C
  • C++
  • Ada
  • Java
  • Pascal
  • Fortran
• CLISP — a Common Lisp interpreter and bytecode-compiler
• Concurrent Versions System — a source code version control system
• MinGW — Windows port of GCC
• Objective CAML — a practical and fast functional OO language
• Perl — a programming language strong on text processing
• PHP — a scripting language designed for web site applications
• Python - A high-level scripting language
• Ruby
• Tcl/Tk — A high-level scripting language with a graphical toolkit

Screen savers

• Flurry
• KISS Image Screen Saver
• Matrix32
• Really Slick Screensavers
• Vital desktop
• xmatrix
• XScreenSaver

Security

Anti-virus

• ClamAV (http://www.clamav.net/)
• Open Antivirus [28] (http://www.openantivirus.org/)

Encryption

• CrossCrypt
• GnuPG
• KGPG
• NeoCrypt
• TrueCrypt
• WinPT

Firewall

• Coyote Linux
• fdgw
• floppyfw
• IPFilter
• ipfw
• pf
• SmoothWall

Monitoring

• Nagios - highly configurable systems and network monitoring
• MRTG - monitor traffic and create graphs over time

SSH

• OpenSSH
• PuTTY

Other security programs

• Ethereal a network protocol analyzer
• Snort
• Stunnel — an open source Secure Sockets Layer filter

Other

• ArgoUML
• Active2
• AstroGrep — Grep with a GUI
• Autopackage — a package management system for Linux
• BibleTime — Study Bible software
• Bochs — PC emulator
• Cygwin — Open source Unix environment for Win32
• Link Checker — checks HTML documents for broken links
• Memtest86 — stress-tests RAM on x86 machines
• Open Scene Graph
• TeX — a document formatting system
• Vitrite — allows transparency in Windows 2000/XP programs
• WINE — Windows executable support on Linux/BSD

CD compilations of open-source software for Windows

• Open Source Software CD — ~700 MB, most complete, updated monthly, available via BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP
• TheOpenCD — ~300 MB, most polished, available via BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP
• GNUWin II
• WinLibre

External links

• Cherry Hill Linux User's Group Open source software equivalents (http://www.chlug.org/oss_equiv.php)
• Open source software for Windows and their closed source equivalents (http://www.jairlie.com/oss/suggestedapplications.html)