Difference between revisions of "Examples of free and open-source software/Some major free and open source software projects"

Operating systems and Desktop environments

• Linux - Operating system kernel
• Ubuntu - 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

• Apache webserver - web server
• BitTorrent - distributed file-sharing
• Mozilla Foundation
  • Mozilla Firefox - web browser
  • Mozilla Thunderbird - mail client
• NVU - HTML composer
• Sendmail - email transfer agent
• Gaim - multiple-protocol instant messaging

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 open-source CMS software here

Other

• Celestia realtime space simulation software. For a tour of its capabilities, select 'Run demo' from the 'Help' menu. Gallery and addons
• NASA worldwind - virtual Earth software
• FlightGear - flight simulator
• Second life - virtual world viewer (as in a virtual reality, rather than a virtual Earth model)
• FreeMind - mind mapping software
• Stellarium - planetarium software for accurate representations of the night's sky from any location or time
• 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
• Mono - Free and open-source .NET framework implementation

More comprehensive list of open-source software

• Wikipedia - List of open source software packages