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awesome-oss / Contents / Audio Editors
Ardour cross platform audio software to record, edit, mix and master audio and MIDI projects
Audacity cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing
WaveShop multi-tab audio editor with a wide range of effects/functions and several supported file formats

awesome-oss / Contents / Audio Players
Clementine modern music player and library organizer
MPD free and open music player server
OooPlayer 18 over 4 years ago Lightweight music player for Windows
Rhythmbox integrated music management application

awesome-oss / Contents / Documents
Etherpad web-based collaborative real-time editor
Evince document viewer for multiple document formats
LibreOffice office suite
Okular universal document viewer
Scribus a page layout program
Sumatra PDF free and open-source document viewer

awesome-oss / Contents / Developer Tools
Ansible radically simple IT automation platform
ConEmu free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows
Daytona The Open Source Dev Environment Manager
DEM 94 7 days ago Containerized Development Environment Manager for Embedded Development
Ddosify 8,428 21 days ago Distributed Performance Testing Platform
Flutter mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android
Fossil simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system
Genezio CLI cli tool that helps you deploy your JS/TS/Dart website (backend + frontend) to 's serverless infrastructure for free
Git distributed version control system
GitLab web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
Hook0 webhooks-as-a-service (WaaS) for SaaS developers
Manifest Open-source Backend-as-a-Service that enables developers to create backends effortlessly
Mosh remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
Node-RED programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways
Pixeleye visual review & testing platform for catching UI bugs
PuTTy free and open-source terminal emulator
Rancher a complete container management platform
React Admin The React Framework for B2B Apps
Refine an open source React-based framework for building CRUD apps
Taipy open-source Python library for building web applications’ GUI and back-end management
Tolgee developer & translator friendly localization platform
VirtualBox free and open-source hypervisor
Windows Terminal tabstyle windows command line/shell tool. Works with Subsystem/WSL and more. Custom look through integrated .json file
Yaade Yaade is an open-source, self-hosted, collaborative API development environment
Revert An open source unified API to build B2B product integrations
Panora Alternative to Merge.dev - Add an integration catalog to your SaaS in minutes, not months
Potpie Use pre-built AI Agents for your codebase to ask questions, debug, test and system design or build your own purpose built agents
Solito A library dedicated to unifying React Native with Next.js, primarily focused on navigation

awesome-oss / Contents / Email
Dovecot IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems
Mail-in-a-box one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server
Mailcow The mailserver suite with the 'moo' – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕
Mailu simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images
Mutt text-based mail client for Unix operating systems
NeoMutt command line mail reader

awesome-oss / Contents / Foundations/Organizations
Apache Software Foundation non-profit corporation to support Apache software project
Blender Foundation nonprofit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D content-creation program
The Document Foundation non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software
Django Software Foundation non-profit organization to promote, support, and advance the Django Web framework
Eclipse Foundation not-for-profit corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse
Electronic Frontier Foundation international non-profit digital rights group
Free Software Foundation non-profit organization to support the free software movement
GNOME Foundation non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts in the GNOME project
Internet Archive non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 306 billion archived web pages
JS Foundation supports some of the most important projects in the JavaScript ecosystem
KDE e.V. non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities
Mozilla Foundation non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project
Open Source Initiative non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software
Open Whisper Systems organization that focuses on the development of the Signal Protocol
OpenBSD Foundation non-for-profit corporation, supporting OpenBSD and related projects
OpenStreetMap Foundation not-for-profit company which supports the OpenStreetMap project
Perl Foundation non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Perl through discussion, collaboration, design, and code
Privacy Guides non-profit, socially motivated website that provides information for protecting your data security and privacy
Python Software Foundation non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language
Ruby Central non-profit organization dedicated to support and advocacy for the Ruby programming language
Software Freedom Conservancy not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects
Tor Project not-for-profit organization that is responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network
VideoLAN non-profit organization that develops and promotes open-source multimedia solutions
Wikimedia Foundation a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge
X.Org Foundation non-profit corporation chartered to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack

awesome-oss / Contents / FTP Clients
Cyberduck client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage
FileZilla cross-platform FTP application
WinSCP SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client for Microsoft Windows

awesome-oss / Contents / Games
Beyond All Reason Beyond All Reason: Real-Time Strategy Redefined. Every unit, projectile and explosion simulated in real-time
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Cataclysm: DDA is a turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Struggle to survive in a harsh, persistent, procedurally generated world
OpenRA OpenRA is an open source project that recreates and modernizes classic real time strategy games, like Red Alert, Command & Conquer, and Dune 2000
OpenTTD OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features
SuperTuxKart Karts. Nitro. Action! SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety of characters, tracks, and modes to play
Veloren Veloren is an action role-playing game set in a voxel fantasy world written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft
Xonotic Xonotic is an addictive arena-style first person shooter with crisp movement and a wide array of weapons. It combines intuitive mechanics with in-your-face action to elevate your heart rate

awesome-oss / Contents / Game Engines
Godot: Game Engine Godot: Your free, open-source game engine. Develop your 2D & 3D games, cross-platform projects, or even XR ideas!

awesome-oss / Contents / Graphics
Auto 1111 SDK 397 6 months ago SDK for editing and generating images
Blender 3D Creation Software
Caesium Image Compressor advanced compression tool for photos and images (JPG, PNG, GIF)
FreeCAD general purpose parametric 3D CAD modeler
GIMP raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks
ImageMagick software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files
Inkscape vector graphics editor
Krita raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and animation purpose
LibreCAD Computer-aided design application for 2D design
Pinta program for drawing and image editing

awesome-oss / Contents / Multimedia
Kodi media player software application
Media Player Classic light-weight media player for Windows
MPlayer media player software
SMPlayer cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer
VLC cross-platform multimedia player and framework

awesome-oss / Contents / Networking
Apache cross-platform web server software
BunkerWeb open-source and next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Firezone 6,847 5 days ago self-hosted WireGuard® based VPN Server & Firewall
FreeNAS Network Attached Storage software
Let's Encrypt free, automated, and open Certificate Authority
NAPALM 2,262 8 days ago NAPALM (Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support)
Nextcloud self-hosted file sync and share and communication app platform
Nginx HTTP and mail proxy server
Nmap Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool
OpenNIC user owned and controlled Network Information Center; alternative DNS network
OpenSSH a suite of security-related network-level utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol
OpenWRT project for embedded operating system based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic
OPNsense an open source, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform
ownCloud self-hosted file sync and share app platform
pfSense a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD specifically tailored for use as a firewall and router that is entirely managed via web interface
Remmina feature rich Remote Desktop Application
sshuttle 11,787 21 days ago Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
Syncthing peer-to-peer file synchronization
Tribler Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
WireGuard fast, modern and secure VPN tunnel
Wireshark packet analyzer

awesome-oss / Contents / OS/Distributions
Android-X86 an unofficial initiative to port Google's Android mobile operating system to run on devices powered by AMD and Intel x86 processors
Arch Linux a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution
CentOS a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source
Debian a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software
Fedora a Linux distriibution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat
FreeBSD free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution
Kubuntu an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop
LineageOS successor to the popular CyanogenMod ROM
Linux 182,543 6 days ago an operating system kernel released by Linus Torvalds
Linux Mint a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu
NixOS Purely Functional Linux Distribution
OpenBSD Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution
openSUSE a Linux-based project and distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies
postmarketOS a Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones
SerenityOS SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core
Slackware The oldest maintained Linux distribution geared towards power and stability
Ubuntu Linux a Linux distribution based on the Debian architecture
Xubuntu an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the XFCE desktop environment

awesome-oss / Contents / Other
AWStats free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically
Common Voice open and publicly available dataset of voices
Dub alternative to Bitly
Documenso Alternative to DocuSign
FreedomBox a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications
Freeter an app for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux that allows to gather everything you need for work in one place, organized by projects and workflows, and have a quick access to them
GnuPG encrypt and sign data and communication
Hi.Events Open-source and feature-packed event management and ticket selling platform
HortusFox 670 6 days ago Self-hosted collaborative plant management system for your local environment
Huginn 43,553 7 days ago a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online
MediaWiki wiki software
MyCroft Voice Assistant
OpenSSL project that provides a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for TLS & SSL
OpenStreetMap collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world
Radicale CalDAV and CardDAV Server
Stockfish Chess UCI chess engine
Tyk open source API gateway
VeraCrypt disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
Yacy P2P Search Engine
ZoneMinder state-of-the-art video surveillance software system

awesome-oss / Contents / Password Managers
Bitwarden password manager
KeePass password manager
KeeWeb cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
Password Safe password manager
Pass Standard Unix Password Manager

awesome-oss / Contents / Payments
HyperSwitch An Open Source Financial Switch to make Payments fast, reliable & affordable

awesome-oss / Contents / Social
Mastodon social network server
Matrix open network for secure, decentralized communication
Pidgin a universal instant messaging (IM) program
HexChat IRC client based on XChat
Rocket.Chat the ultimate webchat platform
Talk alternative to Disqus
WeeChat fast, light and extensible chat client

awesome-oss / Contents / Text Editors
Atom a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron,
Code::Blocks cross-platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++
Emacs (GNU) extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
Kate Editor a text editor developed by the KDE free software community
Nano a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface
Notepad++ a notepad replacement that supports several languages
Treehouse 154 10 days ago a lightweight outliner app you can use in the browser or to build your own custom application
Vim a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi
Visual Studio Code a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications

awesome-oss / Contents / Video Software
Avidemux video editing program designed for video editing and video processing
HandBrake a GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
KdenLive a video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt
Open Broadcaster Software streaming and recording program maintained by the OBS Project
OpenShot Video Editor a video editor for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows
Shotcut a free, open source, cross-platform video editor
VirtualDub free video tool for basic editing and encoding, including batch processing, mainly geared to AVI files

awesome-oss / Contents / Web Browsers
Brave an open source browser project with priority on speed and privacy based on Chromium
Chromium an open-source web browser project started by Google
Falkon a lightweight multiplatform web browser written in Qt Framework and using its web rendering engine QtWebEngine
Midori A lightweight browser using the WebKit rendering engine
Mozilla Firefox web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
NetSurf web browser which uses its own layout engine
PaleMoon web browser with an emphasis on customizability
qutebrowser a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
SeaMonkey Internet suite
Tor Browser a version of Mozilla Firefox that has been modified by the Tor Project for enhanced security and privacy
Uzbl a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy

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