OpenSource Projects

	Firefox http://www.getfirefox.com/
	Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...i/Wikipedia Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists as a wiki,...
	Apache Server Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet. http://www.apache.org/
	Linux (GNU/Linux) Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source...
	Ubuntu Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software...
	PHP http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded...
	OpenOffice A free, open source replacement for MS office, and it mostly works well with MS documents. Download at http://www.openoffice.org/
	VLC 1 Comment http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
	Python http://www.python.org/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It...
	Drupal More than just a CMS, perhaps the finest constructed middleware application server platform in all of Open Source-dom.
	Creative Commons 3 Comments http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved " and the...
	Eclipse 1 Comment http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using the...
	Gimp http://www.gimp.org/
	Blender 3D Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for...
	SourceForge.net http://sourceforge.net/
	GCC - GNU Compiler Collection, http://gcc.gnu.org Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, back-ends...
	BitTorrent 2 Comments http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most efficient means...
	Debian http://www.debian.org/ The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many other...
	Amarok Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it out. http://amarok.kde.org
	MySQL MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its excellent read...
	Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable...
	Wordpress A fantastically dynamic blogging software.
	PostgreSQL The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system.
	Thunderbird An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available....
	MIT's OpenCourseWare 2 Comments http://ocw.mit.edu/ A free education from MIT!
	Subversion Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS, is...
	Adium X Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
	MPlayerMEncoder The Movie Player and Movie Encoder supporting binary DLLs, skins, filters, browser embedding, all possible media, and all imaginable...
	FreeBSD FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived...
	Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Collaborative social tagging/bookmarking site, with that oh-so-catchy url spelling.
	Java Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specification,...
	Inkscape Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C...
	XviD if you are into video compression technology and have a understanding of C this might be for you.
	Joomla Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from...
	Digg.com http://www.Digg.com/ The poster child for user moderated news. Although the software is not technically "open source" (although they do...
	Gaim New! Instant messenger for AIM/ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, SILC, and Yahoo.
	Samba http://www.samba.org Connecting the Unix and Windows world.
	Beryl Open source window manager that utilizes OpenGL to create interesting and useful effects.
	GNOME Desktop New! Free, usable, accessible, international, developer-friendly, organized, support for all dists and worldwide community Desktop.
	OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize...
	Celtx Media Pre-Production Software Film/Video/Theatre/M achinima/Gaming Start your story, write a screenplay, do a breakdown, organize your...
	KDE New! Multiplatform Window Manager
	Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge...eforge.net/
	Moodle moodle.org
	Putty PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. License...
	Trac Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based...
	Gallery http://gallery.sf.net is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend...
	Django Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. http://djangoproject.com
	Cygwin # Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer...
	Democracy Player http://getdemocracy.com/
	Perl http://www.perl.com Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide...
	Ffmpeg An open source media format converter. Converting more than thousands of video, audio and graphic formats to one another. Command-line...
	Asterisk Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and...
	Yoism 1 Comment http://yoism.org/ The world's first open source religion
	OpenJDK https://openjdk.dev.java.net/
	Cyberduck http://cyberduck.ch/
	Grupthink http://www.grupthink.com/ recursion at work :o)
	Free1x2 New! Free1x2 is the first free program of sports lotteries in Spain and of opened code (GPL). With Free1x2 you will be able to realize...
	DokuWiki 1 Comment DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer...
	XBMC - Xbox Media Center http://www.xboxmediacenter....center.com/ XboxMediaCenter is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox from Microsoft. Currently ...
	Okopipi - Successor to Blue Frog http://www.okopipi.org/ - This is an Open Source project to create a distributed Anti-Spam opt out network. It's in the design stages at the...
	MythTV An open source PVR project.
	Webmin web front end to linux admin functions
	Human Genome Project Begun formally in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project was a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National...
	Kopete Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed...
	TWiki 1 Comment TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) is definitely in this list ! TWiki is a flexible and easy to use enterprise collaboration platform and...
	Winscp What is WinSCP? WinSCP is an open source SFTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a...
	TinyMCE TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems...
	Postfix http://www.postfix.org Postfix: It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program....
	Xgl/AIGLX & Compiz/Beryl/Cairo New!    2 Comments Until the introduction of Xgl and Compiz, Linux always suffered from a (partially true) reputation of not being user-friendly or having a...
	LimeWire 2 Comments www.limewire.org
	Foobar 2000 Extremely powerful but good looking music library thing
	Stumble Upon - Social Bookmarking Tool "Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent...
	NeoOffice http://www.planamesa.com/ne...n/index.php
	FileZilla New! FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
	Keepass Keepass password manager. Project page: http://keepass.sourceforge....eforge.net/ Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for...
	CamStudio CamStudio records all screen and audio activity on your Windows computer, creating industry-standard AVI video files. If you need to put the...
	OpenHuman OpenSouring Human Beings... That's the best...
	Gentoo Linux New!    1 Comment A special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance,...
	Turbogears TurboGears is a Python web application framework consisting of several underlying components such as MochiKit, SQLObject, CherryPy and...
	Nvu - fantastic html and css editor 1 Comment A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage...
	Truecrypt.org New! Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux
	Glassfish Sun's open source implementation of JavaEE 5.
	Darwin http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...ting_system) http://www.opensource.apple...rwinsource/
	CakePHP New! Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front...
	Microsoft Windows 1 Comment The shittiest operating system in the world - the machine code that makes it up is so easily exploited that countless virus makers poke...
	The GPL New! http://www.gnu.org/copyleft...ft/gpl.html The GNU General Public License; what started it all...
	SciPy/NumPy 1 Comment Solve the world's scientific/numerical computing problems and pay no licensing fees. Reproduces much of the functionality found in other...
	Symfony Project New! PHP Framework with lots of great characacteristics
	GNU Autotools - autoconf, automake, libtool New! Although these three are divided into separate projects, they are often used in conjunction to bring portability, consistency,...
	Napster 1 Comment File Share OG
	Coppermine Photo Gallery Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image...
	Fedora Project New! The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project. Its goal? The rapid progress of Free and Open Source...
	Azureus New! Arguably the best bittorrent client. http://azureus.sourceforge....eforge.net/ Azureus is a BitTorrent client written in Java. The BitTorrent...
	Plone Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server. Plone is easy to set up,...
	Amule New! aMule p2p software.
	The Church Of Reality http://www.churchofreality....ligion.html The Church of Reality is an Open Source Religion....
	MusikCube musikCube is an open source music library and player.
	OpenWetWare http://openwetware.org OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who...
	OpenCroquet a new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications. It features a network architecture...
	Ardour Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. Produce your own CD's. Mix video...
	MODx MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced...
	PmWiki A mature open source wiki engine. Easy to skin, a lot more easier to implement that TWiki to get quite the same results.
	OpenSolaris Sun's taken its well known Unix implementation (with ZFS, DTrace, and other technologies), made it open source, and invited everyone to...
	FCKeditor New! Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of...
	Furthur Network New! The Furthur Network is the first and only 100% non-commercial, open-source, peer-to-peer network of legal live music created by fans for...
	PIECORP: Making a difference, developing Open Source tools, to build socially-constructiv e Open Source virtual worlds, containing...
	E107.org e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's...
	WikiSTC http://www.wikistc.org is a free repository of knowledge in Subversive Technologies & Countermeasures
	WiND - Wireless Nodes Database WiND is a Web application for managing a database of wireless nodes. It is targeted at wireless community networks. It supports multiple...
	Metadot Portal Server 1 Comment Open source portal server / wiki. www.metadot.com.
	Vienna - Mac OSX newsreader reader Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. A summary of some of its features: *...
	Miranda IM New! one of the best, smallest and most customizable multi-protocol messenger clients around.
	Interchange New!    1 Comment A Full-Featured Application Server, Electronic Catalog and Database Display System
	Jokosher New!    3 Comments Multi-track audio editor with a main focus on usability. http://www.jokosher.org
	Blue Smiley Organizer Organizer (http://www.bookmark-manager...anager.com/) with Bookmark Manager, Notes, Reminder, Live Help, Blog, Diary, To-Do List, Contact List, File...
	Gnutella 6 Comments http://www.gnutella.com/ Open source, distributed, p2p filesharing protocol. The framework for Phex, Limewire, BearShare, Morpheus, and...
	Project Gutenberg New!    1 Comment http://www.gutenberg.org/wi...i/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was...
	Open Source Yoga Unity 3 Comments http://www.yogaunity.org/ "Through regular publication of the work of the Institute, these Indian contributions will reach the whole world....
	Wikocracy http://www.wikocracy.com/ To see what happens when everyone can write and revise the law. It may sound like a free-for-all. But that's...
	Science Commons http://sciencecommons.org/ Our goal is to promote innovation in science by lowering the legal and technical costs of the sharing and reuse...
	Wiki-Law http://www.wiki-law.org/ Wiki-Law's mission is to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide legal guide and resource.
	ThinkCycle http://www.thinkcycle.org/ ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design...
	Plan 9 New! http://plan9.bell-labs.com/....com/plan9/ One of the more obscure open source operating systems; definatly the non-conformist of all operating...
	Designbreak http://www.designbreak.org/ Designbreak is an organization dedicated to bringing the open source movement beyond the scope of computer...
	Wikinews http://www.wikinews.org/ The free-content news source you can write!
	Campaigns Wikia http://campaigns.wikia.com/...aigns_Wikia Politics, Wikipedia style...
	Phex New! http://www.phex.org/mambo/ cross platform, GPL'd gnutella client.