List of free and open-source software packages
This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. 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.[1] For more information about the philosophical background for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here.
Some of the open-source applications are also the basis of commercial products, shown in the List of commercial open-source applications and services.
Applied fields
Artificial intelligence
- General
- OpenCog A project that aims to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) framework. OpenCog Prime is a specific set of interacting components designed to give rise to human-equivalent artificial general intelligence.
- Computer Vision
- AForge.NET Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics library for the .NET Framework
- OpenCV Computer Vision Library in C++
- Machine Learning
- See List of open-source machine learning software
- See Data Mining below
- See R programming language—packages of statistical learning and analysis tools
- Planning
- TREX Reactive planning
- Robotics
- ROS Robot Operating System
CAD
Electronic design automation (EDA)
Computer simulation
- Blender; 3D modeling software written in C, C++ and Python containing cloth, hair, fluid and rigid body simulation techniques
- SimPy; queue-theoretic event-based simulator written in Python
- flightgear is an open-source flight simulator written for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux.
Finance
- Adempiere — Enterprise resource planning(ERP) business suite
- Bitcoin Core — Peer-to-peer decentralised digital currency.
- Bonita Open Solution — Business Process Management
- CiviCRM – Constituent Relationship Management software aimed at NGOs
- Compiere — ERP solution automates accounting, supply chain, inventory, and sales orders
- Cyclos — Software for microfinance institutions, complementary currency systems and timebanks
- Dolibarr — Web-based ERP system.
- GnuCash — Double-entry book-keeping
- HomeBank — for personal use
- Ino erp — Dynamic Pull Based System ERP
- jFin
- JFire — An ERP Business Suite written with Java and JDO
- KMyMoney — Double-entry book-keeping
- LedgerSMB — Double-entry book-keeping
- Mifos — Microfinance Institution management software
- Openbravo
- OrangeHRM — Commercial Human Resource Management
- Postbooks — Integrated Accounting and ERP Business Suite
- QuickFIX — FIX protocol engine written in C++ with additional C#, Ruby, and Python wrappers
- QuickFIX/J — FIX protocol engine written in Java
- SQL Ledger — Double-entry book-keeping
- SugarCRM — Commercial Customer Relationship Management
- Tryton
- TurboCASH — Double-entry book-keeping for Windows
- vtiger CRM — Customer Relationship Management(CRM) software with Sales force automation, marketing management,Customer Service/Support,Inventory Management
Integrated Library Management Software
- Evergreen
- Koha
- NewGenLib
- OpenBiblio
- PMB
- refbase — Web-based institutional repository and reference management software
Image editor
- Darktable — Digital image workflow management, including RAW processing
- digiKam — Integrated photography toolkit including editing capabilities
- GIMP — GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Inkscape — An open-source vector graphics editor
- Krita — Digital painting and sketching application
- RawTherapee — Digital image workflow management, including RAW processing
Mathematics
Reference management software
Science
Bioinformatics
Cheminformatics
Geographic Information Systems
Grid computing
- P-GRADE Portal — Grid portal software enabling the creation, execution and monitoring of workflows through high-level Web interfaces
Microscope image processing
Molecular dynamics
Molecule viewer
- Avogadro
- BALLView
- Jmol
- Molekel
- MeshLab, able to import PDB dataset and build up surfaces from them
- PyMOL
- QuteMol
- RasMol
Nanotechnology
- Ninithi — visualize and analyze the carbon allotropes such as Carbon nanotube, Fullerene, Graphene nanoribbons
Plotting
Risk Management
Statistics
Surveys
- LimeSurvey — Online survey system
Quantum chemistry
Assistive technology
Speech (synthesis and recognition)
- CMU Sphinx — Speech recognition software from Carnegie Mellon University
- Emacspeak — Audio desktop
- ESpeak — compact software speech synthesizer for English and other languages
- Festival Speech Synthesis System
- Modular Audio Recognition Framework — voice, audio, speech NLP processing
- NonVisual Desktop Access — (NVDA) Screen reader for Windows
- Text2Speech — Lightweight and easy to use Text-To-Speech (TTS) Software
Other assistive technology
- Dasher — Unique text input software
- Gnopernicus — AT suite for GNOME 2
- Virtual Magnifying Glass — a multi-platform screen magnification tool.
Data storage and management
Backup software
Database management systems (including administration)
Data mining
- Environment for DeveLoping KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures (ELKI) — data mining software framework written in Java with a focus on clustering and outlier detection methods.
- SCaViS — Java-based data analysis framework
- Konstanz Information Miner (KNIME)
- OpenNN — Open-source neural networks software library written in the C++ programming language.
- Orange (software) — data visualization and data mining for novice and experts, through visual programming or Python scripting. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining.
- RapidMiner — data mining software written in Java, fully integrating Weka, featuring 350+ operators for preprocessing, machine learning, visualization, etc. – the previous version is available as open source.
- Scriptella ETL — ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and script execution tool. Supports integration with J2EE and Spring. Provides connectors to CSV, LDAP, XML, JDBC/ODBC, and other data sources.
- Weka — data mining software written in Java featuring machine learning operators for classification, regression, and clustering.
- JasperSoft — data mining with programmable abstraction layer.
Data Visualization Components
- ParaView plotting and visualization functions developed by Sandia National Laboratory, capable of massively parallel flow visualization utilizing multiple computer processors
- VTK is a toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization.
Digital Asset Management software system
- ResourceSpace - Widely used system with roots in the NGO sector
Disk partitioning software
Enterprise search engines
ETLs (Extract Transform Load)
File archivers
File Systems
- OpenAFS — a distributed file system supporting a very wide variety of operating systems
- Tahoe-LAFS — a distributed file system/cloud storage system with integrated privacy and security features
- CephFS — a distributed file system included in the Ceph storage platform.
Networking and Internet
Advertising
Communication-related
- Asterisk — Telephony and VoIP server
- Ekiga — Video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows
- FreePBX — Front-end and advanced PBX configuration for Asterisk
- FreeSWITCH — Telephony platform
- Jitsi — Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client
- QuteCom — Voice, video, and IM client application
- Enterprise Communications System sipXecs — SIP Communications Server
- Slrn — a newsreader
- Twinkle — VoIP softphone
File transfer
Grid and distributed processing
Instant messaging
IRC Clients
Middleware
- Apache Axis2 — Web service framework (implementations are available in both Java & C)
- Apache Geronimo
- Bonita Open Solution(software) — a J2EE web application and java BPMN2 compliant engine
- GlassFish Application Server
- Jakarta Tomcat — a servlet container and standalone webserver
- JBoss Application Server an application server
- ObjectWeb JOnAS — Java Open Application Server, a J2EE application server
- TAO (software) — C++ implementation of the OMG's CORBA standard
- Enduro/X – C/C++ middleware platform based on X/Open group's XATMI and XA standards
RSS/Atom readers/aggregators
- Akregator — Platforms running KDE
- Liferea — Platforms running GNOME
- RSS Bandit — Windows – .NET Framework
- RSSOwl — Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux – Java SWT Eclipse
- Sage (Mozilla Firefox extension)
Peer-to-peer file sharing
Portal Server
- Drupal
- eXo Platform
- Liferay
- Oxwall — Community site software
- Sun Java System Portal Server
- uPortal
Remote access and management
Routing software
Web browsers
Webcam
Webgrabber
Web-related
- Apache Cocoon — a web application framework
- Apache — the most popular web server
- AWStats — a log file parser and analyzer
- BookmarkSync — a tool for browsers
- Cherokee — Speedy, feature rich HTTP Server
- curl-loader — a powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing open-source tool
- Hiawatha — Secure, high performance and easy-to-configure HTTP server
- HTTP File Server — a user friendly file server software with a drag and drop interface
- lighttpd — Resource sparing but also fast and full featured HTTP Server
- Lucee — CFML Application Server
- nginx — lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
- NetKernel — an internet application server
- Piwik — a web analytics system
- Qcodo — a PHP5 framework
- Squid (software) — web proxy cache
- Vaadin — a fast to use java based framework for creating web applications
- Varnish (software) — high-performance web application accelerator/reverse proxy and load balancer/HTTP router
- XAMPP — a package of web applications including Apache and MySQL
- Zope — a web application server
Other networking programs
- JXplorer — a LDAP client
- OpenLDAP — a LDAP server
- openVXI — a VoiceXML interpreter
- YaCy — P2P-based search engine
- ownCloud – a file share and sync server
- Wireshark - A Network Monitor
Educational
Educational suites
- ATutor — a web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
- Chamilo — a web-based e-learning and content management system
- Claroline — a collaborative Learning Management System
- DoceboLMS
- eFront — an icon-based learning management system
- FlightPath — academic advising software for universities
- GCompris
- Gnaural — Brainwave entrainment software
- IUP Portfolio
- ILIAS — a web-based learning management system (LMS)
- Moodle — a free and open-source learning management system
- OLAT — a web-based Learning Content Management System
- Omeka
- openSIS — a web-based Student Information and School Management system
- Sakai Project — a web-based learning management system
- SWAD – a web-based learning management system
- Tux Paint — a paint application for 3–12 year olds
Geography
Learning support
Language
Typing
Other educational programs
File managers
Games
Application layer
Genealogy
Graphical user interface
Desktop environments
Window managers
Windowing system
Groupware
Content management systems
Wiki software
Healthcare software
Hobby software
Homebrewing
Media
2D animation
3D animation
Audio editors, audio management
CD/USB-writing software
Flash animation
Graphics
Image galleries
Image viewers
Multimedia codecs, containers, splitters
Television
Video converters
Video editing
- Avidemux
- AviSynth
- Blender
- Cinelerra
- DScaler
- DVD Flick
- Kaltura
- Kdenlive
- Kino
- LiVES
- Natron
- OpenShot Video Editor
- Pitivi
- Shotcut
- VirtualDub
- VirtualDubMod
- VideoLAN Movie Creator
Video encoders
Video players
Other media packages
- Celtx — Media Pre-production Software
Operating systems
Be advised that available distributions of these systems can contain, or offer to build and install, added software that is neither free software nor open-source.
Emulation and Virtualisation
Password management
Personal information managers
- Chandler — developed by the OSAF.
- KAddressBook
- Kontact
- KOrganizer
- Mozilla Calendar — A Mozilla-based, multi-platform calendar program.
- Novell Evolution
- OpenSync (software)
- Project.net — Commercial Project Management
- TeamLab — Platform for project management and collaboration
Programming language support
Bug trackers
Code generators
- Bison
- CodeSynthesis XSD — XML Data Binding compiler for C++
- CodeSynthesis XSD/e — Validating XML parser/serializer and C++ XML Data Binding generator for mobile and embedded systems
- Flex lexical analyser— generates lexical analyzers
- Kodos
- Open Scene Graph — 3D graphics application programming interface
- OpenSCDP — Open Smart Card Development Platform
- phpCodeGenie
- SableCC — parser generator for Java and .NET
- SWIG — Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator for several languages
- ^txt2regex$
- xmlbeansxx — XML Data Binding code generator for C++
- YAKINDU Statechart Tools — Statechart code generator for C++ and Java
Documentation generators
- Doxygen : a tool for writing software reference documentation. The documentation is written within code.
- Mkd : The software documentation is extracted from the sources files, from pseudocode or comments.
- Natural Docs : claims to use a more natural language as input from the comments, hence its name.
Configuration software
Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting)
- GNU Debugger — "works for many programming languages [...]"
- Memtest86 — Stress-tests RAM on x86 machines
- Xnee — Record and replay tests
Integrated development environments
Version control systems
Screensavers
Security
Anti-virus
Data loss prevention
Data recovery
Forensics
Anti-forensics
Disk erasing
Encryption
Disk encryption
Firewall
- Coyote Linux
- Firestarter
- IPCop
- IPFilter
- IPFire
- ipfw
- iptables
- M0n0wall
- PeerGuardian
- PF
- pfSense
- Rope
- Shorewall
- SmoothWall
- Untangle
- Vyatta
Network and security monitoring
Secure Shell (ssh)
- Cyberduck — Mac OS X and Windows client (since version 4.0)
- Lsh — server and client (supporting SRP and Kerberos authentication)
- OpenSSH — client/server
- PuTTY — client only
Other security programs
Theology
Bible study tools
- BibleDesktop — For Cross-platform
- BibleTime — For Linux using KDE
- Go Bible — For Java Mobile Phones
- jSword — For Java
- MacSword — For Mac OS X
- Marcion — For Linux and Windows, using Qt UI Framework and embedded MySQL server
- openlp.org — Worship presentation software for churches to display songs, bibles, movies etc.
- SwordBible — For Windows
- The SWORD Project for Windows — For Windows
- Xiphos The_SWORD_Project — For Linux using GNOME
Typesetting
See also
General directories
References
- ^ Richard Stallman (July 13, 2011). "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software". Retrieved August 24, 2011.
External links
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General Directories
- Free Software Directory — The Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation.
- Open Source Software Directory — Provides a list of open-source software organized by categories.
- Open Source Living — Open Source Living is a community-driven dynamic archive of open-source software.
- Ohloh — Ohloh is an open-source directory that anyone can edit.
- AlternativeTo – user-edited directory of alternatives to popular software – both open-source and non-open-source. Alternatives are listed under the software they are considered an alternative to, rather than requiring the user to browse to a relevant category.
Open-source for Windows
- List of open-source programs (LOOP list) for Windows
- TheOpenDisc.com pre-assembled disc of OSS for Windows (successor to TheOpenCD.org)
- The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows