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This is list, in no significant order, of good quality free and open-source software that anyone can download and use right away. There is plenty of other high quality open-source software out there, this list is an introductory sample for those who are new to it. Most of these programs cross-platform, meaning they can be installed on MS Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

See also screenshots at the bottom of the page
All links below point to external websites

Operating systems and Desktop environments

  • Linux - Operating system kernel
  • Ubuntu Linux - Linux distribution with full compliment of software for everyday use. See also Kubuntu that runs the KDE desktop which some people find this easier if they previously used MS Windows
  • BSD - Operating system
  • Darwin - The core of Apple's Mac OS X operating system
  • GNOME desktop environment for Linux (and Unix)
  • KDE desktop environment for Linux (and Unix)
  • Xfce lightweight desktop environment for Linux (and Unix)

Graphics and multimedia

  • GIMP - Bitmap graphics editor, similar to Adobe Photoshop
  • Inkscape - Vector graphics editor
  • Xara Xtreme - Vector graphics editor
  • VNC - cross-platform remote desktop utility. For example it enables a Mac to control a Windows or a Linux PC (or vice-versa)
  • Blender - Advanced 3D modelling and rendering application. Gallery
  • Art of Illusion - Java-based 3D modelling and rendering application with an intuitive user interface. Gallery
  • VideoLAN - cross-platform media player capable of playing most video filetypes
  • Democracy player - cross-platform media player that can automatically download videos from RSS-based "channels" and play videos sequentially from a playlist
  • Songbird - similar to iTunes with built-in browser. Screencast
  • Audacity - digital audio editor
  • Ardour - digital audio workstation
  • Scribus - Desktop Publishing (DTP)
  • F-Spot - Photo manager

Office software

  • OpenOffice - office productivity software. Comparable to Microsoft Office. As well as having using an open file format it can read and write Microsoft Office files
  • KOffice - office suite for KDE desktop (Unix / Linux)
  • AbiWord - word processor
  • Evolution - personal information manager
  • PDFCreator - creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer (PDFCreater is Windows only)

Internet related software

Content management systems

  • Joomla! - CMS
  • Alfresco - CMS
  • MediaWiki - wiki content management software. AdCiv.org is powered by MediaWiki
  • Drupal - modular content management framework and blogging engine

See more here

Other

  • Celestia realtime space simulation software. For an overview of what it can do select 'Run demo' from the 'Help' menu. Gallery and addons
  • NASA worldwind - virtual Earth software
  • FlightGear - flight simulator
  • FreeMind - mind mapping software
  • K3b - CD and DVD authoring application for Linux
  • phpMyAdmin - web front-end for MySQL database management system

Programming related

  • Eclipse - software framework and Java IDE
  • GTK - Popular widget toolkit for the X Window System, for creating graphical user interfaces
  • QT toolkit - cross-platform application development framework
  • KDevelop - Programming IDE for Linux / Unix
  • PHP - server-side programming language
  • PERL - Dynamic programming language
  • Python - programming language
  • GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
  • MySQL - Database management system
  • Java - Programming language
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