Favourite/Useful Open Source Software

evilhomer

Thought I would start a thread that could become a sticky.
Basically post links to all your favourite Open Source Software and a brief description of what it is/does.

I'll kick off with some of the classics

Apache a webserver(most popular in the world!).
MySQL database software.
PHP Dynamic web scripting language.
Linux Operating system! it comes in many flavours here are a few of the most popular; Redhat, Debian, SuSe, Mandrake.

Open Office Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation software.

Firefox a real web browser!

Thunderbird mail client.

FileZilla Ftp client i really like.

there is such a diverse collection of Open source software out there I know I haven't even scratched the surface!

Zaltais

The Gimp: Image editor - similar to photoshop.

Perl: The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. A scripting language and so much more.

CVS & Subversion: Version control. More of a developer kinda thing.

phpMyAdmin: PHP (web) based administration tool for MySQL databases.

VIM: THE text editor. (Not for the faint of heart!)

Orion

The OpenCD contains a good selection of OS software. It's not always the latest version but close.

The following applications are included on TheOpenCD 2.0.

Productivity
OpenOffice 1.1.3 - As above
AbiWord 2.2.1 - Word processor
PDFCreator 0.8 - What is says

Design
GIMP 2.0.5 - as above
Blender 2.35a - 3D Modelling
Dia 0.94 - vector oriented drafting
TuxPaint 0.9.14 - kids drawing program

Internet/Networking
FireFox 1.0
Thunderbird 1.0
Mozilla suite 1.7.3
Gaim 1.1.0 - Multi-protocol IM app
Filezilla 2.2.9
TightVNC 1.3dev6 - Remote access
WinHTTrack 3.32-2 - offline browser

Multimedia
Audacity 1.2.3 - sound editing
Celestia 1.3.2 - simulation of the universe - I find it quite processor intensive.
CDex 1.51 - audio conversion to mp3, ogg, etc.

Utilities
7-zip 3.13 - free winzip - don't like it myself as I find it quite slow.
Notepad2 1.0.12 - great replacement for Notepad
SciTE 1.62 - Text editor.

Games
Sokoban 1.187
Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.8
Lbreakout 2.4.1

steveland?

Blender 3D gets my vote

Also the obligatory Firefox/Thunderbird combo.

Also I don't have work so I use Open Office Org which I believe has been mentioned before.

PHP, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL

Is TextPad open sourced or just shareware? Never bothered checking...

Orion

Textpad is Shareware. Handy tool though.

towbar

Asterisk VOIP
http://www.asterisk.org/

With a few add in cards can be configured as a very cheap phone system.

tba

Macros42 wrote:

Textpad is Shareware. Handy tool though.

http://www.jedit.org/

wayne040576

Linux : Currently use slackware .

Firefox & Thunderbird

Evolution Mail client


winmerge : Great file merging tool. Really handy for merging code.

gaim : instant messaging client :

k3b : cd \dvd buring tool for linux \ bsds :

gtkpod : ipod application for linux \ bsds :

Repli

Theres a great library available for PHP called gd, used to generate dynamic images, can be very powerful when combined with mysql and generate images based on that data

po0k

wget

Never browse without it


TightVNC

Moriarty

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD.

Varying flavours of a unix-based OS.

FreeBSD is the most popular of the three. OpenBSD is probably the most secure OS in popular useage at the moment. NetBSD runs on a massive array of different types of hardware.

tomk

Where to start.....

Here's a few in no particular order.

mplayer - video/audio player, handles any format you want
xfce4 - "low-fat" alternative to Gnome,KDE
httptunnel - as described. What you put in the tunnel is up to you
openswan - IPSec VPN implementation
screen - virtual terminals
Midnight Commander - file manager
xmms - music player

That's all for now - I'm off to bed.....

2 Espressi

Shareaza - P2p Client...

Lemming

Beside the obvious: Linux

Firefox (plus the adblock & foxytunes plugins)
Thunderbird
Apache
Perl
the GIMP
Dev-C++
ZSnes

Stark

Gaim - Multi-protocol instant messaging client
Amsn - msn messenger clone

Abiword

MrVestek

2 Espressi wrote:

Shareaza - P2p Client...

Shareaza is open source? I don't think so...

Syth

bloat (http://bloat.sourcefource.net), a handy Perl script that will automatically extract many different archive types. Makes sure it extracts to it's own directory as well.

Python (http://python.org) A very nice object orientated programming language that I've just started using.

steveland?

phpBB is a handy oul tool and easy to create MODs for
php-Nuke for the same reasons

Infini

Azureus - a BT client. Excellent for managing multiple torrent downloads.

deevey

Fire - all in one instant messenger for osx (same as gaim really)
chitchat - yahoo chatroom (bit like yahelite for osx)
Video LAN Client -one of the best media players for win / mac (will play virtually anything)
Handbrake - DVD ripper for osx
and i'll second Blender and gimp

Oh and possibly my Fav two
neuromixer - really good video mixer for win and mac link here

and Open TZT - superb video mixing prog for windows link here

Elfman

can anyone tell me is ther ne open source or freeware software that will translate spoken word into text ?? oh and can neone recomend good software for ripping dvd to divx ,

just on the topic extract now - un packs win zip and rar and sftuff
and free rip - rips cd's to whatever format

both class , why ? cos they do exactly what there supposed to do and fast !!

Orion

Elfman wrote:

oh and can neone recomend good software for ripping dvd to divx

There's definitely no OS software for divx conversion - it's a proprietary format. There might be one to Xvid though.

tba

Elfman wrote:

extract now - un packs win zip and rar
free rip - rips cd's to whatever format

both class , why ? cos they do exactly what there supposed to do and fast !!

Ok agree with you there but there not really open source are they?

GNU Zip is an OS compression software.
Rip is an OS cd ripper

Elfman

oh yeah sorry im a student when it says open source all i see is free (-;
still dame fine !!

jester77

Can't leave these out...
eclipse - excellent IDE
ANT - build tool

Ba_barbaraAnne

Could someone tell me if there is an open source accounts package? I've a very small business, so buying is not an option.

tba

GNUcash runs on most things, except windows, what Operating system do you have?

Capt'n Midnight

Ba_barbaraAnne wrote:

Could someone tell me if there is an open source accounts package? I've a very small business, so buying is not an option.

Probably best on a separate thread. IIRC every so often SAGE or better still TAS books have an introductory offer of about €100.
TBH you might be better off with paper or a spreadsheet if it's very low volume by the time you take into account the learning curve. If you have an accountant you could their advice too.

Ba_barbaraAnne

tba wrote:

GNUcash runs on most things, except windows, what Operating system do you have?

I'm using Windows 2000. Want to install Linux on an old pc so might get GNUcash ifI get that done.

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

TBH you might be better off with paper or a spreadsheet if it's very low volume by the time you take into account the learning curve. If you have an accountant you could their advice too.

Don't want to get an accountant - did paper accounts years ago for my ex's business without one, so will go it alone as usual. It's just more fun to do it on computer. Will look out for a cheap TAS as covered that in a Business Studies course last year. €100 is less than paying an overpriced local accountant!

Thanks people

rsynnott

Macros42 wrote:

There's definitely no OS software for divx conversion - it's a proprietary format. There might be one to Xvid though.

Yes, there is open source software for DivX conversion... Mplayer plus some open-source DivX libraries should do the trick

Fionn

Ba_barbaraAnne wrote:

Could someone tell me if there is an open source accounts package? I've a very small business, so buying is not an option.

hiya
I was asked recently to find MS Windows based open source accounting software, below are two that i had bookmarked, these are not trial versions but full working ones. Haven't a clue if they're any good tho!!

http://www.lazy8.nu/

http://www.turbocashuk.com/

and while on the subject of open source etc. this is worth a look!!
http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html

oneweb

Achilles wrote:

Shareaza is open source? I don't think so...

It is open source... ...check the spelling

oneweb

I use lots of Open Source software , usually do a search on www.sf.net if I need a particualr app.

My favourites so far (no doubt I'm missing a few)

Mozilla - browser/email suite

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ASFRecorder
BusSched - Dublin Bus timetables for Palm OS (other OSes too)
DScaler Deinterlacer/Scaler - viewer for TV cards
FileZilla - FTP client/server
Get Mail.com - perl script to download mail.com inbox to text (mbox) file
Gnucleus - P2P (superseded by Shareaza)
MD5summer - Win MD5 file hash utility
Media Player Classic - used as part of K-Lite Codec Pack Mega merges bloated Realplayer/Quicktime etc into one lil player.
NetTime - sync pc to a time server
Notepad++ - deadly source code editor with syntax highlighting and autocomplete
Palm Datebook Converter - convert Palm datebook to text file
Palm OS Emulator
PDFCreator
Shareaza - P2P inc. BitTorrent/Gnutella
Ultr@VNC - Control computer remotely
WinMerge - File diff'er

[edited to linkify]

zod

For windows:

Snitz Forums : http://forum.snitz.com/

Helpdesk : http://www.liberum.org

neon_glows

Best open source Programs in the world:

www.dvddecrypter.com --- dvd decrypter software for ripping dvds

www.grisoft.com ---- look for avg free edition, a free and great

www.zonelabs.com --- zone alarm firewall

www.nasa.gov ---- search for a prog called world wind, 3d model of earth allowing you to view satillite images.

gmail notifier if you have a gmail mail box

www.vodafone.ie --- vodafone messewnger, think you need an 087 phone though

www.limewire.com ---- no spam/spyware/ads p2p network, very reliable.

www.download.com --- search for american army game, really is great.

MrVestek

neon_glows wrote:

Best open source Programs in the world:

www.grisoft.com ---- look for avg free edition, a free and great

That's not open source.

neon_glows wrote:

www.zonelabs.com --- zone alarm firewall

Yeah neither is that.

neon_glows wrote:

gmail notifier if you have a gmail mail box

Or that.

neon_glows wrote:

www.limewire.com ---- no spam/spyware/ads p2p network, very reliable.

Lol, you're joking, right?

L1011

Kismac, possibly the best wireless stumbler in the world in what it can do, only limited by the OS it runs on (OSX) and its poor support for Apple's recent cards.

mlmac - good OSX gui for:

mldonkey - cross platform, cross network filesharing client. Written in Objective CAML, of all things...

Pe - The Programmers Editor. Abandoned and then opensourced as its author moved from BeOS to Windows. Decent notepad, incredible HTML editor

Kino - DV movie camera tool for Linux and I guess the BSD's. Works with my DVD player as the Firewire data source (not got a camera, yet) on my Vaio and my iBook, which is more than Sonic and iMovie do on their 'native' OS's

ffmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat - supports virtually every media codec in existance, including preliminary support for Windows Media 9/10, most Quicktime and some RealMedia formats. Is used as the core of:

VLC, Xine and mplayer. Three excelent, highly portable media players. mplayer is the best on x86 just because it can thunk in Windows codecs to use them, although its a bit illegal...

And while its not software, the Wikipedia. Thats GFDL'ed....

Orion

neon_glows wrote:

Best open source Programs in the world:

www.dvddecrypter.com --- dvd decrypter software for ripping dvds

www.grisoft.com ---- look for avg free edition, a free and great

www.zonelabs.com --- zone alarm firewall

www.nasa.gov ---- search for a prog called world wind, 3d model of earth allowing you to view satillite images.

gmail notifier if you have a gmail mail box

www.vodafone.ie --- vodafone messewnger, think you need an 087 phone though

www.limewire.com ---- no spam/spyware/ads p2p network, very reliable.

www.download.com --- search for american army game, really is great.

Are you taking the pi$$? Do you have any idea what Open Source means? In fact, considering that you recommend Limewire - do you know what a computer is?

GoneShootin

Hey lay off Limewire - its the dogx such n such. I prefer it over WinMX/Kazaa at least.

back to open source

osCommerce. Currently testing it on this site.

Gandalf23

Knoppix (www.knoppix.net) is a Linux distribution that boots directly from CD. This is an excellent option for those of us with aging laptops and small hard drives!!! Also good for technophobes who dont want to mess with dual boots and HD partitions etc. "From zero to Linux in 5 minutes" and that cant be bad...

But my favourites are...

Firefox & Thunderbird (of course!!!), and eMule.