Category:Open Source

This category will be about all things Open Source (or Open Source Software/OSS). I will include links to and reviews of my favourite OSS projects.

Top OSS projects

1. Wikipedia
2. Firefox
3. OpenOffice.org
4. BitTorrent — a client application for the torrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol.
5. MediaWiki
6. XviD — an open-source MPEG-4 video codec.
7. phpBB
8. openSUSE.org — a community project, sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux.
9. dyne:bolic — a LiveCD GNU/Linux distribution geared towards multimedia production with a useful assortment of applications for creative users.
10. GIMP — a free software bitmap graphics editor, a program for creating and processing raster graphics.
11. Apache HTTP Server
12. SourceForge — a collaborative software development management system.

List of OSS projects

Below is an incomplete list of OSS projects I support and actively use:

• openSUSE.org — seeks to provide a free, open-source version of SuSE Linux.
• KDE — K Desktop Environment for Linux and Unix workstations.
• GNOME — GNOME is a Unix and Linux desktop suite and development platform.
• OpenOffice — a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.
• Eclipse — an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.

Graphics

• The GIMP — The GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Math

• The R Project — R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
• Yacas — an open source, general-purpose, easy-to-use computer algebra system.

Plotting

• GnuPlot — a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility.
• Grace — a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System.

Backup Software

• rsync — an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

Database management systems

• MySQL AB — database server.
• The phpMyAdmin Project — a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet.
• SQLite — a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.

PDF

• Ghostscript — a suite of free software based on an interpreter of the Adobe PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages.

Scientific Text Editors

• LaTeX Project — a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.

Science

• Kalzium — a periodic table of the elements for KDE.
• KStars — a planetarium program that runs under GNU/Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

Groupware

• OpenGroupware.org — a free collaborative software (groupware) server for multiple clients.
• phpBB — a popular free and open source forum system using the PHP scripting language and supporting a variety of database management systems.
• PHProjekt — PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet.

Weblog systems

• WordPress — a web publishing system (a.k.a. content management system) written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.

Image Galleries

• Gallery Project — an open source PHP project enabling simple management and publication of photographs and other digital media through a PHP-enabled Apache.

Webgrabber

• HTTrack — a free software and open source website copier and offline browser.
• Wget — a free software program that implements simple and powerful content retrieval from web servers.

Web-related

• Apache HTTP Server — a free software/open source HTTP web server.
• AWStats — an open source web analytics reporting tool, suitable for analyzing data from Internet services such as web, streaming media, mail and ftp servers.