Projects of the Month

By Community Team

Each month a project is chosen from the many thousands on SourceForge.net to be our Project of the Month.

This Month’s Projects

Community Choice:


Dolibarr ERP – CRM – Open source ERP and CRM web software for business.

 

Staff Pick:

Freeplane – Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge and Project Management.

 

November 2020

Community Choice:


Pidgin IM – Pidgin is an instant messaging program that allows you to log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, and more.

Staff Pick:


JSToolNpp – JSToolNpp is a JavaScript tool for Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code that features Douglas Crockford’s JSMin algorithm, a JSON tree viewer, and support 64bit Notepad++.

July 2020

Community Choice:


Money Manager Ex – Money Manager Ex (mmex) is an easy to use, money management application that can be used to track your net worth, calculate and balance income and expenses, and more. It includes reports, graphs and scheduled transactions.

Staff Pick:


gnuplot – gnuplot is a portable, multi-platform, command-line driven graphing utility that features 2D and 3D plotting, plenty of output formats and scripted examples, and more. It also offers interactive input or script-driven options.

June 2020

Community Choice:


Jamulus – Jamulus is an Internet jam session software that enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet. The Jamulus server collects the audio data from each Jamulus client, mixes the audio data and sends the mix back to each client.

Staff Pick:


Skim – Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

May 2020

Community Choice:


Clonezilla – Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®, with 2 versions: Clonezilla live and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition). It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive and supports a number of different filesystems.

Staff Pick:


BlissRoms – An Open Source OS based on Android that incorporates many customization options and added security features. Focused on providing a quality ROM/OS that can run on all your devices, it preserves customizations and options by syncing across all platforms. It comes with plenty of great features and a few variants.

April 2020

Community Choice:


Q4OS – Q4OS is an ultra-fast and powerful cloud-suitable operating system with a traditional desktop user interface. It is based on the latest technologies and is distinguished by its speed and very low hardware requirements. It runs great on brand new machines as well as legacy computers.

Staff Pick:


GO Contact Sync Mod – GO Contact Sync Mod synchronizes your Microsoft Outlook contacts with your Google Mail address book, including pictures, categories and notes.

March 2020

Community Choice:


CudaText – CudaText is a cross-platform text and code editor inspired by Sublime Text. It offers a syntax highlight for 180+ languages, has a lite interface with tabs, and JSON config files instead of options-dialog. It also supports Python plugins.

Staff Pick:


OpenFOAM – OpenFOAM is the leading open source programmable software tool for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It features mesh generation, compressible and incompressible flows, multiphase flows, buoyancy-driven flows and more.

February 2020

Community Choice:


ExpressLuke GSI – ExpressLuke GSI offers source built GSIs based on phhusson’s great work. It has both Android Pie and Android 10 unofficial GSIs, which includes the likes of Pixel Experience, Resurrection Remix and Havoc OS for all users no matter what architecture or partition layout is being used.

Staff Pick:


mpv player – mpv player is a free, open source, and cross-platform media player. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs and subtitle types, with many useful features including video scaling, color management, frame timing, interpolation and more.

January 2020

Community Choice:


HP Linux Imaging and Printing – The Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides a unified single and multi-function connectivity solution for Linux. It supports a total of 3,012 HP printer,scanner and fax devices on nearly any Linux distribution available today.

Staff Pick:


Superior OS – SuperiorOS is an AOSP based ROM that works on Android OS 9 (Pie). Its features include clock and date customizations, traffic indicators, double-tap to sleep, H/W keys customization, enable/disable navbar, accent color manager and more.

December 2019

Community Choice:


XigmaNAS – XigmaNAS is an embedded Storage distribution for Windows, Mac, & UNIX-like systems. It can be installed on virtually any x64 hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. It includes ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc.

Staff Pick:


MX-Linux – MX Linux is a cooperative venture between the antiX and former MEPIS communities, using the best tools and talents from each distro. It is a midweight OS designed to combine an elegant and efficient desktop with simple configuration, high stability, solid performance and medium-sized footprint.

November 2019

Community Choice:


x64dbg – x64dbg is an open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows. It features an intuitive and familiar new user interface, C-like expression parser, full-featured debugging of DLL and EXE files (TitanEngine), IDA-like sidebar with jump arrows and instruction token highlighter (highlight registers etc.), Memory map, Symbol view, Thread view and a whole lot more.

Staff Pick:


net-snmp – Net-SNMP provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including: An extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, etc.

October 2019

Community Choice:


AppServ – AppServ is a merging open source software installer package for Windows and Linux. It provides an easy way to configure Apache, PHP, and MySQL.

Staff Pick:


LMS plugins – Various plugins for Logitech Media Server, an open source multi-room audio system.

September 2019

Community Choice:


Tcl – Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. It is very powerful yet easy to learn, and suitable for a very wide range of uses, including web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and many more.

Staff Pick:


vtenext – vtenext is the Hybrid CRM open source equipped with the BPMN engine for the processes design. All the functionalities offered by a CRM are strengthened by the BPMN engine to design automated processes.

August 2019

Community Choice:


Evolution X – An AOSP based ROM with Pixel UI, Android Q vibes, customizations and more.

Staff Pick:


Octave Forge – A collection of packages providing extra functionality for GNU Octave. The Octave Forge packages expand Octave’s core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave’s package system. It offers image processing, signal processing, fuzzy logic and more.

July 2019

Community Choice:


plantuml – PlantUML is a component that allows one to quickly create UML diagrams using a simple and intuitive textual description language. Several non-UML diagrams are also supported.

Staff Pick:


Peace Equalizer – Peace Equalizer is a Windows PC interface for Equalizer APO. It has an effects panel for balance, crossfeeding, delay and more.

June 2019

Community Choice:


MiRoom – Localized MIUI ROMs with multi language, no ads, no garbage and plenty of cool features.

Staff Pick:


SCons – SCons is a software construction tool that is a superior alternative to the classic “Make” build tool. It’s implemented as a Python script and set of modules, and SCons “configuration files” are actually executed as Python scripts, giving it many unique and powerful capabilities.

May 2019

Community Choice:


digiCamControl – digiCamControl is a free and open source camera control solution that allows you to save time by transferring images directly from your camera to your computer as you take each shot, and allows you to control camera shooting parameters.

Staff Pick:


Double Commander – Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features Unicode support, tabbed interface, multi-rename tool, custom columns and many other new ideas.

April 2019

Community Choice:


Asuswrt-Merlin – Asuswrt-Merlin is a third party firmware for select Asus wireless routers. Based on the Asuswrt firmware developed by Asus, it brings tweaks, new features and other improvements to the original firmware, while retaining its performance and ease of use.

Staff Pick:


ProjectLibre – ProjectLibre is a project management software, an alternative to Microsoft Project. It features compatibility with Microsoft Project 2010, User Interface improvement, charts, bug fixes and more.

March 2019

Community Choice:


Lazarus – Lazarus IDE is a stable and feature-rich visual programming environment for the FreePascal Compiler. It supports the creation of self-standing graphical and console applications and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows.

Staff Pick:


Outlook CalDav Synchronizer – Outlook CalDav Synchronizer is a Free Outlook Plugin, which synchronizes events, tasks and contacts between Outlook and Google, SOGo, Nextcloud, Horde or any other CalDAV or CardDAV server. Supported Outlook versions are 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007.

February 2019

Community Choice:


FlightGear – FlightGear is a free and open source multi-platform flight simulator developed by a worldwide group of volunteers. Highly configurable, it features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a multi-player environment, detailed sky modelling, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and more.

Staff Pick:


ReactOS – ReactOS is an operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles. It’s lightweight, built from scratch with plenty of open modules.

January 2019

Community Choice:


LibreCAD – LibreCAD is an open-source cross-platform 2D CAD program, which is translated in over 30 languages. It is able to read DWG and DXF files and write DXF, SVG, PDF and more. With custom toolbars and menus and a highly customizable appearance.

Staff Pick:


gretl – gretl is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It has an easy, intuitive interface, a wide variety of estimators, and is available in a number of languages.

December 2018

Community Choice:


Free Pascal Compiler – Free Pascal Compiler is a 32/64/16-bit Pascal compiler for Win32/64/CE, Linux, Mac OS X/iOS, FreeBSD, OS/2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo NDS and DOS. It is semantically compatible with Delphi, Borland Pascal and Mac Pascal (partially) with extra features, e.g. operator overloading.

Staff Pick:


BluestarLinux – Bluestar Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution that provides a breadth of functionality and ease of use without sacrificing aesthetics. Bluestar is offered in three editions – desktop, deskpro and developer – each tailored to address the needs of a variety of Linux users. Bluestar can be installed permanently as a robust and fully configurable operating system on a laptop or desktop system, or it can be run effectively as a live installer and supports the addition of persistent storage for those who choose not to perform a permanent installation.

November 2018

Community Choice:


Ditto – Ditto is an extension to the standard Windows clipboard that saves each item placed on the clipboard, allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. It also allows you to specify what gets saved: text, images or html.

Staff Pick:


SystemRescueCd – SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions.
It comes with a lot of software such as disk management tools, network administration programs and simple text editors. It can be used for both Linux and Windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers.

October 2018

Community Choice:


The FreeType Project – A free, high-quality, and portable font engine written in C. It is designed to be small, efficient, and highly customizable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats for digital typography.

Staff Pick:


Universal Media Server – Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server that streams many media formats with minimal configuration. It supports all major operating systems, and is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats.

September 2018

Community Choice:


Ext2 Filesystems Utilities – The Ext2 Filesystem Utilities (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2 filesystems. It also supports the ext3 and ext4 filesystems.

Staff Pick:


Scribus – Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. It supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

August 2018

Community Choice:


avidemux – Avidemux is a free audio and video editor to cut, filter, and encode projects. It edits avi, mpeg and nuv files.

Staff Pick:


Clonezilla – Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image®. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive.

July 2018

Community Choice:


dotOS 2.x – O – dotOS is a Custom Android Firmware based on Android Oreo. It is made in a way so as to look great in terms of the UI and is also powerful in order to unleash the device’s true potential.

Staff Pick:


Free Manga Downloader – The Free Manga Downloader (FMD) is an open source application written in Object-Pascal for managing and downloading manga from various websites. It supports over 250 manga sites and automatically checks for updates.

June 2018

Community Choice:


Cosmic-OS – Cosmic-OS is an AOSP-CAF based custom ROM with full Substratum support. The aim of this ROM is to deliver light-speed performance with plenty of features, a high level of fluidity, and good battery life.

Staff Pick:


Akaunting – Akaunting is a free and online accounting software able to do invoicing, accounting, expense tracking, financial reports and more. See your financials online anytime, anywhere on your computer, tablet or phone. Built with modern technologies such as Laravel, Bootstrap, jQuery, RESTful API etc.

May 2018

Community Choice:


Firebird – Firebird is a powerful, cross platform, SQL database system that offers ANSI SQL features and runs on Linux, Windows & several Unix platforms. It also features excellent concurrency & performance, and powerful stored procedure & trigger language.

Staff Pick:


fre:ac – free audio converter – fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper for various formats and encoders. It features MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and Bonk format support; integrates freedb/CDDB, CDText and ID3v2 tagging and is available in several languages.

April 2018

Community Choice:


GnuCash – GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.

Staff Pick:


Eclipse Tomcat Plugin – The Eclipse Tomcat Plugin provides simple integration of a tomcat servlet container for the development of java web applications. It offers simple configuration and supports multiple versions of Tomcat.

March 2018

Community Choice:


Linux Lite – Linux Lite is a free Linux distribution built from an Ubuntu base featuring XFCE. Linux Lite is free for everyone to use and share, and suitable for people who are new to Linux or for people who want a lightweight environment that is also fully functional. It includes LibreOffice Suite, VLC Media Player, Firefox Web Browser, Thunderbird Email, Gimp Image Editor, Lite Themes, Lite User Manager, Lite Software, Whiskermenu and more.

Staff Pick:


Zabbix – Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices and other IT resources. It supports distributed and WEB monitoring, auto-discovery, and more.

February 2018

Community Choice:


iDempiere – iDempiere Business Suite is ERP/CRM/SCM done the community way. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users.
iDempiere is based on original Compiere/Adempiere plus a new architecture to use state-of-the-art technologies like OSGi, Buckminster, zk.

Staff Pick:


Xtreme Download Manager – Xtreme Download Manager is a powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%, save and convert streaming videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Google Video and thousands of other websites, resume broken/dead downloads and schedule downloads.
XDM seamlessly integrates with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox Quantum, Opera, Vivaldi and many popular browsers, to take over downloads and saving streaming videos from web.
XDM has built in video converter which lets you convert downloaded videos to popular MP4 and MP3 formats.
Support for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DASH, HLS, HDS protocols, firewalls, proxy servers, PAC scripts, file redirects, cookies, authorization, download queue, scheduler and many more features makes XDM a very useful tool.

January 2018

Community Choice:


SQuirreL SQL Client – SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical SQL client written in Java that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc.

Staff Pick:


Hibernate – Hibernate is an Object/Relational Mapper tool. It’s very popular among Java applications and implements the Java Persistence API. Hibernate ORM enables developers to more easily write applications whose data outlives the application process. As an Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework, Hibernate is concerned with data persistence as it applies to relational databases (via JDBC).

December 2017

Community Choice:


fldigi – A Ham Radio Digital Modem Application. Fldigi is a modem program for most of the digital modes used by radio amateurs today: CW, PSK, MFSK, RTTY, Hell, DominoEX, Olivia, and Throb. It can help calibrate a sound card to a time signal and do frequency measurement tests.

Staff Pick:


MPC-BE – Media Player Classic – BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows.
It is based on the original “Media Player Classic” project (Gabest) and “Media Player Classic Home Cinema” project (Casimir666), and contains additional features and bug fixes.

November 2017

Community Choice:


Pandora FMS – A flexible, open-source, enterprise-ready monitoring solution. Pandora provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes. It uniquely enables business and IT to adapt to changing needs through a flexible and rapid approach to IT and business deployment.

Staff Pick:


Manjaro Linux – A user-friendly Linux distribution based on the independently developed Arch operating system. Developed in Austria, France, and Germany, Manjaro provides all the benefits of the Arch operating system combined with a focus on user-friendliness and accessibility. Available in both 32 and 64 bit versions, Manjaro is suitable for newcomers as well as experienced Linux users.

October 2017

Community Choice:


x64dbg – An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows. Its features include an intuitive, new yet familiar user interface; C-like expression parser; full-featured debugging of DLL and EXE files (TitanEngine); IDA-like sidebar with jump arrows and many more. It also features symbol, thread, source code and content-sensitive register views.

Staff Pick:


Octave-Forge – A collection of packages providing extra functionality for GNU Octave. It serves as a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave, and expands Octave’s core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave’s package system.

September 2017

Community Choice:


FlightGear – A free and open-source multi-platform flight simulator. It features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a multi-player environment, detailed sky modelling, a flexible and open aircraft modelling system, varied networking options, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and an open architecture.

Staff Pick:


gnuplot – A portable, multi-platform, command-line driven graphing utility. Its features include 2D and 3D plotting, a huge number of output formats, interactive input or script-driven options, and a large set of scripted examples.

August 2017

Community Choice:


Lazarus – The Lazarus IDE is a stable and feature rich visual programming environment for the FreePascal Compiler. It supports the creation of self-standing graphical and console applications and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows.

Staff Pick:


IssabelPBX – A Free Open Source Software that Unifies communications in a single platform and allows you to build communication tools for businesses. It is based on an Elastix® fork (currently purchased by 3CX) to provide the community with continuity, peace of mind and support needed to continue with their PBX and operation developments.

July 2017

Community Choice:


The FreeType Project – A free, high-quality, and portable font engine. FreeType is written in C and is designed to be small, efficient, and highly customizable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats for digital typography. FreeType is a freely available and portable software library to render fonts.

Staff Pick:


winPenPack – A portable software collection that aims at collecting the most frequently used and most popular open source applications made portable, so that they can be executed without installation from any USB Flash Drive or Hard Disk. The winPenPack suites offer a wide range of portable applications like office tools, internet tools, multimedia tools, development tools, security applications and other frequently used utilities. Everything you need, completely free, open source and portable.

June 2017

Community Choice:


ShanaEncoder – An audio/video encoding program based on FFmpeg. It offers fast and professional quality enconding and many other features, such as closed caption, subtitle overlay, logo, crop, segment, and more.

Staff Pick:


fldigi – A Ham Radio Digital Modem Application. It works with most of the digital modes used by radio amateurs today, such as CW, PSK, MFSK, RTTY, Hell, DominoEX, Olivia, and Throb. It can help calibrate a sound card to a time signal and do frequency measurement tests.

May 2017

Community Choice:


Free Pascal Compiler – A free 32/64/16-bit multi-platform Pascal and Object Pascal compiler for Win32/64/CE, Linux, Mac OS X/iOS, FreeBSD, OS/2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo NDS and DOS. It is semantically compatible with Delphi, Borland Pascal and Mac Pascal (partially) with extra features, such as operator overloading.

Staff Pick:


SMPlayer – A free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can also play YouTube videos. SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play YouTube videos subtitles.

April 2017

Community Choice:


Liferay Portal – the world’s leading enterprise open source portal framework. It offers
integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructure.

Staff Pick:


Bulk Crap Uninstaller – a free and open source program uninstaller that excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal user input. It can clean up leftovers, detect orphaned applications, run uninstallers according to premade lists, and more! Straightforward and easy-to-use, BCU is also fully compatible with Windows Store Apps, Steam, Windows Features and has special support for many uninstalling systems (NSIS, InnoSetup, Msiexec, and many others).

March 2017

Community Choice:


NAS4Free – an embedded Storage distribution for Windows, Mac & UNIX-like systems. This includes ZFS, Software RAID (0,1,5), disk encryption, S.M.A.R.T / email reports etc. with following protocols/services: CIFS/SMB (samba), Samba AD, FTP, NFS v4, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, UPnP, Bittorent, Syncthing, VirtualBox and noVNC, Bridge, CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) and HAST (Highly Available Storage).

Staff Pick:


Outlook CalDav Synchronizer – a free Outlook Plugin that synchronizes events, tasks and contacts between Outlook and Google, SOGo, Horde or any other CalDAV or CardDAV server. Supported Outlook versions are 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007.

February 2017

Community Choice:


Maxima – a Computer Algebra System written in Common Lisp. Maxima is a computer algebra system comparable to commercial systems like Mathematica and Maple. It emphasizes symbolic mathematical computation: algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and much more. It can also calculate with exact integers and fractions, native floating-point and high-precision big floats.

Staff Pick:


DC++ – a Windows client for the Direct Connect networks. This project is aimed at producing a file-sharing and chatting client using the ADC protocol. It also supports connecting to the Direct Connect network.

January 2017

Community Choice:


Bodhi Linux – a minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution that’s built on top of the latest Ubuntu LTS release and featuring the Moksha Desktop.

Staff Pick:


antiX-Linux – a fast, lightweight and easy to install Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Testing for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems. antiX provides an environment suitable for new and old computers, giving old computers a fresh new feel. It can also be used as a fast-booting rescue cd. Its goal is to provide a light, but fully functional and flexible free operating system for both new and experienced users of Linux. It should run on most computers, ranging from 256MB old PIII systems with pre-configured swap to the latest powerful boxes.

December 2016

Community Choice:


ReactOS – an operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles. ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).

Staff Pick:


Tcl – an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. It is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout.

November 2016

Community Choice:


Freeplane – an application for Mind Mapping, plus Knowledge and Project Management. It is useful for thinking, sharing information and getting things done in a variety of settings. It can be run locally or portably from removable storage like a USB drive, and on any operating system that has a current version of Java installed.

Staff Pick:


TYPO3 – an enterprise class Web CMS written in PHP/MySQL. TYPO3 is designed to be extended with custom written back-end modules and front-end libraries for special functionality, and has very powerful integration of image manipulation. It allows you to add, change and remove text, images and plug-ins on your site with no need to install any proprietary software or pay a third-party. It lets you build any kind of site, large or small, personal or business.

October 2016

Community Choice:


Nagios Core – a powerful, enterprise-class host, server, application, and network monitoring tools. Designed to be fast, flexible, and rock-solid stable, it runs on *NIX hosts and can monitor Windows, Linux/Unix/BSD, Netware, and network devices.

Staff Pick:


SQuirreL SQL Client – a Java SQL client for any JDBC compliant database. It allows you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands and more. Functionality can also be extended with the use of plugins.

September 2016

Community Choice:


GnuCash – an easy-to-use personal and small-business finance manager with a checkbook-like appearance. Enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.

Staff Pick:


FreeDOS – a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as packages to the overall FreeDOS Project. FreeDOS is distributed under the GNU GPL.

August 2016

Community Choice:


Eclipse Tomcat Plugin – offers simple handling of a tomcat server in Eclipse IDE. This project is a fork of the original Sysdeo Tomcat Plugin, and provides simple integration of a tomcat servlet container for the development of java web applications. It supports multiple versions of Tomcat and features simple configuration and handling of Tomcat.

Staff Pick:


LibreCAD – a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple, and Linux. LibreCAD is an open-source cross-platform 2D CAD program translated in over 20 languages. It can read DWG and DXF files, write DXF, SVG, PDF and more.

July 2016

Community Choice:


iDempiere – a Business Suite ERP/CRM/SCM done the community way. Focus is on the Community that includes Subject Matter Specialists, Implementors and End-Users. iDempiere is based on original Compiere/Adempiere plus a new architecture to use state-of-the-art technologies like OSGi, Buckminster, zk.

Staff Pick:


MediaPortal – an app that turns your PC into a very advanced MediaCenter / HTPC. It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.

June 2016

Community Choice:


MovistarTV – an add on for XBMC/Kodi that allows for a virtual Movistar + TV decoder for different OS.
This plugin performs the same actions, and some improvements to the decoder Movistar + TV. Its features include Automatic Update channel, Programming Guide (EPG ), recordings in the cloud and locally, viewing recordings on the cloud, sync recordings locally to avoid expiration, Advanced Management series, timeshift and DLNA.

Staff Pick:


Pandora FMS – an enterprise-ready monitoring solution that provides unparalleled flexibility for IT to address both immediate and unforeseen operational issues, including infrastructure and IT processes. It uniquely enables business and IT to adapt to changing needs through a flexible and rapid approach to IT and business deployment. Pandora FMS consolidates all the needs of modern monitoring (ITOM, APM, BAM) and provides status and performance metrics from different operating systems, virtual infrastructure (VMware, Hyper-V, XEN), Docker containers, applications, storage and hardware devices such as firewalls, proxies, databases, web servers or routers.

May 2016

Community Choice:


Libjpeg-turbo – a SIMD-accelerated libjpeg-compatible JPEG codec library. It uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON, AltiVec) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, ARM, and PowerPC systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-6x as fast as libjpeg, and on other types of systems, can still outperform libjpeg by a significant amount. Libjpeg-turbo implements both the traditional libjpeg API as well as the less powerful but more straightforward TurboJPEG API. It also features colorspace extensions that allow it to compress from/decompress to 32-bit and big-endian pixel buffers (RGBX, XBGR, etc.), as well as a full-featured Java interface.

Staff Pick:


ArchBang – a simple GNU/Linux distribution that provides a lightweight Arch Linux system combined with the OpenBox window manager. It’s suitable for both desktop and portable systems and is fast, stable, and always up to date.

April 2016

Community Choice:


Wine – an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes.

Staff Pick:


SharpDevelop – a free IDE for C#, VB.NET, & Boo projects on Microsoft’s .NET platform. SharpDevelop allows you to write applications in languages including C#, VB.NET, F#, IronPython and IronRuby, as well as target rich and reach: Windows Forms or WPF, as well as ASP.NET MVC and WCF. It starts from USB drives, supports read-only projects, comes with integrated unit and performance testing tools, Git, NuGet and a lot more features that make you productive as a developer.

March 2016

Community Choice:


Sparkylinux – a lightweight and fast Debian-based Linux distribution. SparkyLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution created on the “testing” branch of Debian. It features customized lightweight desktops (like E19, LXDE and Openbox), multimedia plugins, selected sets of apps and own custom tools to ease different tasks.

Staff Pick:


WinPython – an open-source portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows XP/7/8, designed for scientists, supporting both 32bit and 64bit versions of Python 2 and Python 3.

February 2016

Community Choice:


SMPlayer – a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can also play YouTube videos. SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. Apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play YouTube videos subtitles.

Staff Pick:


ProjectLibre – an open source alternative to Microsoft Project. Features include Gantt, PERT and RBS charts,earned value costing, and new and updated version of OpenProj.

January 2016

Community Choice:


Ditto – a simple, fast, resource light clipboard manager. Ditto stores unlimited clips in an SQLite database so you can access them at a later time. Ditto’s easy-to-use interface allows finding recent clipboards within seconds; it has three different virtual clipboards that you can access through dedicated shortcuts; and, its unique network capabilities make clipboard sharing a reality.

Staff Pick:


Double Commander – a powerful twin-panel file manager that provides interfaces for both GTK and Qt, so it may fit perfectly for either GNOME or KDE users. Double Commander supports configuration options and usability features such as optional view modes, a powerful search function, an integrated file archiver and compression tool, configuration options, and plugin support.

December 2015 Community Choice –


FreeType – a freely available software library to render fonts. FreeType is written in C, designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable. It is also capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats for digital typography. It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools and much more.

December 2015 Staff Pick:


rEFInd – a boot manager for EFI/UEFI-based machines. It can auto detect your installed EFI boot loaders and also presents a nice GUI menu of boot options. rEFInd easily handles systems with many boot loaders, gives better control over the boot loader search process, and provides the ability for users to define their own boot loader entries. rEFInd also features support for text mode and graphical operation, auto detection of available EFI boot loaders, maintenance-free Linux kernel updates, and support for Mac and PC platforms.

November 2015 Community Choice –


FlightGear – a multi-platform flight simulator. FlightGear is an Open Source flight simulator used for research and academic environments, pilot training, as an industry engineering tool, or for DIY-ers to pursue their favorite flight simulation idea.

November 2015 Staff Pick –


Maxima –  a computer algebra system (CAS) with symbolic mathematical computations for algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and more. Mathematicians, physicists, engineers who regularly algebra and calculus problems can benefit the most from this commercial-grade Open Source CAS.

October 2015 Community Choice –

fre:ac – an audio converter and CD ripper for various formats. It features MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and Bonk format support, integrates freedb/CDDB, CDText, and ID3v2 tagging, and is available in several languages.

October 2015 Staff Pick –

TeXstudio – an integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor with numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking and various assistants.

September 2015 Community Choice –

PSeInt – a pseudo-code interpreter for Spanish-speaking programming students. PSeInt is a tool to assist students in their first steps in programming. Through a simple and intuitive pseudo-language in Spanish, complemented by a flow diagram editor, it allows you to focus on the fundamental concepts of computational algorithms, minimizing the difficulties of language and providing a work environment with numerous aids and didactic resources.

September 2015 Staff Pick –

gnuplot – a portable, command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. This famous scientific plotting package includes such features as 2D and 3D plotting, a large number of output formats, interactive input or script-driven options, and an extensive set of scripted examples. gnuplot is the perfect program to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but it can also be used as a plotting engine by third-party applications for web scripting, and much more.

August 2015 Community Choice –

NAS4Free – An embedded Storage distribution for Windows, Mac, & UNIX-like systems. The NAS4Free operating system can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network. ‘NAS’ as in “Network-Attached Storage” and ‘4Free’ as in ‘Free and open source’, NAS4Free is the simplest and fastest way to create an centralized and easily-accessible server for all kinds of data easily accessed with all kinds of network protocols and from any network.

August 2015 Staff Pick –

JasperReports Server – a powerful, yet flexible and lightweight reporting server. Generate, organize, secure, and deliver interactive reports and dashboards to users with a web based BI Platform. Available as an open source community edition download as well as a commercially licensed, enterprise-grade business intelligence solution.

July 2015 Community Choice Tie Vote –

Octave-Forge – a central location for the collaborative development of packages for GNU Octave. The Octave-Forge packages expand Octave’s core functionality by providing field specific features via Octave’s package system. For example, image and signal processing, fuzzy logic, instrument control, and statistics packages are examples of individual Octave-Forge packages.

SharpDevelop – the open-source IDE for the .NET platform. Write applications in languages including C#, VB.NET, F#, IronPython and IronRuby, as well as target rich and reach: Windows Forms or WPF, as well as ASP.NET MVC and WCF. It starts from USB drives, supports read-only projects, comes with integrated unit and performance testing tools, Git, NuGet and a lot more features that make you productive as a developer.

July 2015 Staff Pick –

TortoiseSVN – a Subversion (SVN) client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It’s intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn’t require the Subversion command line client to run. Simply the coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control!

June 2015 Community Choice – VBA-M

– a merge of the original VisualBoyAdvance forks is the best way to explore all of its merged features, including e-reader support. VBA-M, is for Game Boy Advance enthusiasts, hardware tinkerers, and folks who own games they wish they still had an original system for, such as Pokemon on a Game Boy while wishing for a bigger screen. The cross-platform interface uses the wxWidgets toolkit to make sure each feature works properly on Windows, Linux, and OS X and on a variety of compilers and libraries.

June 2015 Staff Pick – git-osx-installer

– a stand-alone installer for Git. Installing Xcode and then building and compiling git from source is a lot of work. The stand-alone installer sidesteps the issue of installing the entire software toolkit on your desktop. While Git is presently installed with the Xcode tools software package, the stand-alone installer is an excellent resource for those who want to easily install just Git.

May 2015 Community Choice – ConEmu

– a Windows Console Emulator with Far Manager plugins. ConEmu was initially created as a Far Manager companion or a kind of graphical interface for the old school but oft-used two-panel, console file manager. ConEmu includes options for visualizing Far editors and viewers with tabs, dragging files and folders, customizing panels with background images and more.

May 2015 Staff Pick – Smoothwall

– an Internet firewall with an intuitive interface that runs on commodity hardware. Smoothwall is a specialized Linux distribution that turns a spare PC (or VM) into a firewall. It features a caching Web proxy, VPN service, DHCP server, and other assorted network services. Smoothwall Express is a solid, secure firewall that is safely maintained and administered by people who are not IT experts, much less network security experts.

This Month’s Projects

April 2015 Community Choice – Simutrans

– a cross-platform simulation game. You control a transport company and have to satisfy demands for transport from cities and factories. Simutrans is very flexible and can be customized with different graphics and varying levels of economic challenges.

April 2015 Staff Pick – GNS3

– a network emulation platform used to build and test multi-vendor computer networks. GNS3 allows you to run simulations or configure devices ranging from simple workstations to powerful Cisco routers and is based on Dynamips, Pemu/Qemu and Dynagen.

March 2015 Community Choice – GnuCash

– a personal and small-business, single-user, double-entry bookkeeping software application based on standard accounting principles, with a wide variety of financial and accounting reports to help you get a clear picture of your finances.

March 2015 Staff Pick – ProjectLibre

– an open source alternative to Microsoft Project. Our functionality mirrors Microsoft in a way since you can simply open existing MS Project files in ProjectLibre. It is available on Linux, Mac, or Windows.

February 2015 Community Choice – ClamAV

– a GPL antivirus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers. It provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and an up-to-date virus database.

February 2015 Staff Pick – Megacubo

– a broadcast tuner application written in PHP and Winbinder. Megacubo has a catalog of links of TV streams, which are available for free on the web. At the moment it only runs on Windows (XP or later). Megacubo lets you watch hundreds of live TV channels for your computer without antenna or TV cards.

January 2015 Community Choice – ScummVM

– a program that allows you to run many classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. ScummVM just replaces executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

January 2015 Staff Pick – DVDStyler

– a cross-platform free DVD authoring application that makes possible for video enthusiasts to create professional-looking DVDs. It provides over 20 DVD menu templates and allows you to create your own menu designs and photo slideshows.

December 2014 Community Choice – SCons

– a software construction tool (build tool, or make tool) implemented in Python, which uses Python scripts as “configuration files” for software builds. It is an easier, more reliable, and faster way to build software, solving a number of problems associated with other build tools, especially including the classic and ubiquitous make itself.

December 2014 Staff Pick – FreeFileSync

– a graphical file synchronization and folder comparison tool. This means its main purpose is to speed up backup operations by examining the differences between source and target folders and then copy only what is needed rather than copying everything each time, similar to what a disk cloning/imaging tool does.

November 2014 Community Choice – MPC-HC

MPC-HC is a derivative of Media Player Classic, MPC-HC is a no-nonsense alternative to the Windows Media Player. MPC-HC isn’t flashy but it works with nearly any media format. So dig out your old AVIs along with your modern H.264 and VC-1 videos, you won’t be disappointed.

November 2014 Staff Pick – Google2SRT

Google2SRT is a tool that can download “un-embedded” subtitles (Closed Captions – CC) from YouTube and its predecessor, Google Video, and convert them to a standard format (SubRip – SRT) supported by most video players.

October 2014 Community Choice – PortableApps

PortableApps is an open source, application launcher that you install directly to your USB or cloud drive and use on any PC. You can download hundreds of portable applications from the PortableApps integrated directory, like Firefox, Skype, and more.

October 2014 Staff Pick – Miranda IM

Miranda IM is an open source, multi-protocol instant messaging client designed to be very light on system resources, extremely fast and customizable. A powerful plugin-based architecture make Miranda IM one of the most flexible clients on the planet.

September 2014 Community Choice – OpenMediaVault

OpenMediaVault a next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client, and many more. And thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced with plugins.

September 2014 Staff Pick – PDF Split and Merge

PDF Split and Merge is an easy-to-use tool with graphical and command line interfaces to spit, merge, mix, and rotate your PDF documents. PDFsam basic is free, you can download it and simply use it on every platform with a Java Runtime Environment installed.

August 2014 Community Choice – VASSAL Engine

VASSAL Engine is a game engine for creating electronic versions of traditional board and card games. It provides support for game piece rendering and interaction, and supports play by email or over a live connection.

August 2014 Staff Pick – CMDBuild

CMDBuild is a flexible software to configure a custom database of assets (CMDB stands for “Configuration and Data Base Management”) and design related workflow processes.

July 2014 Community Choice – eXo

eXo is a highly customizable, social-collaboration enterprise platform for the enterprise. The eXo platform has many social collaboration features built in, such as wikis, forums, documents, Q&A, calendars, and content management built around a social layer composed of activity streams, rich profiles, and social networking.

July 2014 Staff Pick – Freeplane

Freeplane is an application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.

June 2014 Community Choice –   Freeplane

Freeplane is an application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.

June 2014 Staff Pick –   Darktable

Darktable is a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers: it manages your digital negatives in a database and lets you view them through a zoomable light table. It also enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

May 2014 Community Choice –   ApexDC

a DC++ client based on StrongDC++ that features external plugins and scripting through LUA and much more.

May 2014 Staff Pick –   PiPlay

A pre-built Raspberry Pi OS made for gaming and emulation.

April 2014 Community Choice –   Free Pascal Compiler

A 32/64/16-bit Pascal compiler for Win32/64/CE, Linux, Mac OS X/iOS, FreeBSD, OS/2, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo NDS and DOS; semantically compatible with Delphi, Borland Pascal and Mac Pascal (partially) with extra features, e.g. operator overloading.

April 2014 Staff Pick –   Apache OpenOffice.org Templates

The official catalog of Apache OpenOffice templates. You’ll find templates ranging from letters and résumés to calendars and brochures. Templates can save your time, and are easy to use.

March 2014 Community Choice –   Universal Media Server

Multi-OS DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server for streaming videos and other media over a network.

March 2014 Staff Pick –   Win32 Disk Imager

A tool used for writing images to USB sticks or SD/CF cards

February 2014 –   Clover EFI bootloader

An EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet bootloader

January 2014 –   Minsky

Minsky enables the simulation of models (particularly from economics) defined in terms of coupled ordinary differential equations. The models are defined using a drawing canvas (rather like VisSim), and a double entry bookkeeping system known as a Godley table.

December 2013 –   cpuminer

cpuminer is a multi-threaded CPU miner for Litecoin, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Currently supported algorithms are SHA-256d and scrypt(1024, 1, 1). It supports the getwork mining protocol as well as the Stratum mining protocol, and can be used for both solo and pooled mining.

November 2013 –   Password Safe

Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all.

October 2013 –   BleachBit

BleachBit frees disk space and maintains privacy. Cleans cache, Internet history, temporary files, logs, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Cleans Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Windows, Linux, and much more.

Past Projects

September 2013 –   West Point Bridge Designer and Contest

A national virtual bridge engineering contest with prizes for age 13 to grade 12, but anyone can enter. Based on the award-winning West Point Bridge Designer client software, now open source through this project. Web site infrastructure supports worldwide participation in qualifying and semifinal rounds with a tiny administrative staff.

August 2013 –  TeXstudio – A LaTeX Editor

TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar. Find out more at our website.

July 2013 – winPenPack: Portable Software Collection

winPenPack is a project that aims at collecting the most frequently used and most popular open source applications made portable, so that they can be executed without installation from any USB Flash Drive or Hard Disk. The winPenPack suites offer a wide range of portable applications like office tools, internet tools, multimedia tools, development tools, security applications and other frequently used utilities. Everything you need, completely free, open source and portable!

June 2013 – ReactOS

ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).

May 2013 – FileBot

FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming your movies, tv shows or anime and downloading subtitles. It’s smart, streamlined for simplicity and just works. FileBot supports Windows, Linux and Mac, plus there’s a full-featured command-line interface for all sorts of automation.

April 2013 – SuperTuxKart

SuperTuxKart is a kart racing game featuring Tux and friends. It is a fun-racer game, focusing on fun and ease of play

March 2013 – PostBooks

World’s #1 Open Source ERP: Get FREE Accounting, CRM, ERP for small- to mid-sized businesses. Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows AND Mobile. Rich API to connect third-party apps. FREE user registration, demos and trial offers, plus commercial editions and add-ons at http://www.xTuple.com.

February 2013 – Kiwix

Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. It’s especially intended to make Wikipedia available offline.

With Kiwix, you can enjoy Wikipedia on a boat, in the middle of nowhere… or in Jail.

Kiwix manages to do that by reading ZIM files, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.

January 2013 – DOSBox DOS Emulator

DOSBox emulates a full x86 pc with sound and DOS. Its main use is to run old DOS games on platforms which don’t have DOS (Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Linux / FreeBSD / Mac OS X)

December 2012 – JStock

JStock is a free stock market software for 26 countries. It provides Stock watchlist, Intraday stock price snapshot, Stock indicator editor, Stock indicator scanner and Portfolio management. Free SMS/email alert supported.

November 2012 – Rigs of Rods

Rigs of Rods is a 3D simulator game where you can drive, fly and sail various vehicles using an accurate and unique soft-body physics engine.

October 2012 – ProjectLibre

ProjectLibre project management software is an open source alternative to Microsoft Project. It has been downloaded in 146 countries the first month of release and was just voted Sourceforge’s “Project of the Month” ProjectLibre is compatible with Microsoft Project 2003, 2007 and 2010 files. You can simply open them on Linux, Mac OS or Windows and if desired save results back.

September 2012 – PeaZip

PeaZip is a free cross-platform file and archive manager utility that provides an unified portable GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP. Extract 150+ archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ZIPX and more

August 2012 – XOOPS

XOOPS is one of world’s leading open source CMS and portal systems, written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for developing small or large community websites, intra company and corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

July 2012 – Liferay Portal

Liferay Portal is the world’s leading enterprise open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructure.

June 2012 – 0 A.D

0 A.D. (pronounced “zero ey-dee”) is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. It’s a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of six ancient Western civilizations, each depicted at their peak of economic growth and military prowess. The six factions are: The Hellenic States (aka The Greeks), the Roman Republic, The Celtic Tribes, the Persian Empire, the Iberian Tribes, and the Carthaginian Empire, each complete with unique artwork, technologies and civilisation bonuses.

May 2012 – Luminance HDR

Luminance HDR is a complete suite for HDR imaging workflow. It provides a wide range of functionalities, both during the fusion and the tonemapping stage. Its graphical user interface, based on Qt4, runs on a multitude of platform, like Microsoft Windows (32 and 64 bit), Mac OS X 10.6 and above and several Linux distribution.

April 2012 – Elastix

Elastix is an appliance software that integrates the best tools available for Asterisk-based PBXs into a easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities to make it the best software package available for open source telephony.

March 2012 – Scribus

Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows. Scribus supports professional features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and robust commercial grade PDF.

February 2012 – Boost C++ Libraries

Boost provides free portable peer-reviewed C++ libraries. The emphasis is on portable libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library

January 2012 – HyperSQL Database Engine

HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC driver, conforming to ANSI SQL:2008. A small, fast, multithreaded engine and server with memory and disk tables, LOBs, transaction isolation, multiversion concurrency and ACID.

December 2011 – TICO

TICO is a tool for the design and execution of interactive communication boards for the severely disabled.

November 2011 – The Number Race

The Number Race is an “adaptive game” intervention designed for remediation of dyscalculia (mathematics learning disabilities or difficulties) in children aged 4-8. It may also be useful for prevention of dyscalculia, or to teach number sense in kindergarten children without learning difficulties.

September 2011 – GCompris

GCompris is a high-quality educational software suite comprised of numerous activities for children aged two to 10. Some of the activities are game-oriented, but are nonetheless still educational.

August 2011 – iTALC

iTALC is a powerful didactical tool which allows teachers to assist their students in computer labs. It gives the possibility to view, control and lock pupils’ computers remotely.

July 2011 – Moodle

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

June 2011 – Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

May 2011 – OpenPetra

OpenPetra is a free and easy-to-use administration software package for non-profit organizations. Specifically designed to meet the administrative requirements of an international mission agency or other non-profit organisation, OpenPetra runs standalone or as a multi-user system in an office network or on the Internet.

April 2011 – odt2braille

odt2braille is a free and open source extension for the word processors OpenOffice.org Writer and LibreOffice Writer. Its goal is to make Braille available to anyone who knows how to use a word processor. The extension enables users to use Writer as a Braille authoring environment, to print Braille to a Braille embosser and to export to various Braille formats.

March 2011 – NVDA

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open source screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, it enables blind or vision impaired people to access computers running Windows for no more cost than a sighted person.

February 2011 – eGuideDog

The eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. It includes a browser, a text-to-speech engine, screen reader and any other software that can help the blind to access digital information.

January 2011 – CiviCRM

CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution for advocacy, non-profit and other organizations.

December 2010 – Snort

Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) developed by Sourcefire.

November 2010 – Gutenprint

Gutenprint is a very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS on Linux, Macintosh OS X, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

October 2010 – jEdit

jEdit is a programmer’s text editor written in Java. It can be configured as a rather powerful IDE through the use of its plugin architecture.

September 2010 – GPL Ghostscript

GPL Ghostscript is a complete set of page description language interpreters including PDF, PostScript, PCL5, PCLXL, and XPS along with the ability to convert to and from any of these languages. There is no other open source solution for page description languages that is this comprehensive.

August 2010 – Wireshark

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. It captures the packets flowing across a computer network and displays them in a human-readable form.

July 2010 – Scintilla

Scintilla is a free source code editing component that includes features such as syntax styling, error indicators, folding, code completion, and call tips. The project includes SciTE (SCIntilla-based Text Editor).

June 2010 – OpenNMS

OpenNMS is the world’s first enterprise-grade network management application platform developed using the open source model.

May 2010 – LAME

LAME is an open source audio encoder designed to create MPEG-1/2 Layer III files (casually known as “MP3 files”).

April 2010 – Mantis

Mantis is an easily deployable, web-based bug tracker.

March 2010 – Arianne

Arianne comprises a multiplayer online games framework and engine to develop turn-based and real-time games, and the various games which use it.

February 2010 – Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several programming languages and natural languages.

January 2010 – Clonezilla

Clonezilla is a partition or disk clone tool similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in your hard drive.

December 2009 – OpenGTS

OpenGTS (Open-Source GTS Tracking System) is an open-source alternative for companies wishing to provide GPS tracking for their fleet of vehicles.

November 2009 – Mumble

Mumble is a leading open source VoIP solution for social gamers. Our primary design goal is that you should be able to talk as if you were in the same room; this means high quality compression, noise filtration, echo cancellation and no delay.

October 2009 – Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is free software designed to draw the plan of a home, arrange furniture, and display the result in a 3D view.

September 2009 – Medical

Medical combines the functionality of an Electronic Medical Record and a Health Information System, focused on preventive medicine for developing countries, with special emphasis on the socio-economic background of the patient.

August 2009 – eyeOS

eyeOS is a free software web desktop following the cloud computing concept, written in mainly PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeOS Toolkit, and includes a desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities.

July 2009 – Piwik

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages, and a whole lot more. Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

June 2009 – Silex

Silex is an open source RIA that enables you to build Flash websites for Flash Player 7, 8, 9, and 10. Silex is a new kind of CMS, a mix between an editing software like the Adobe Creative Suite, and Wiki based software.

May 2009 – DOSBox

DOSBox is an emulated x86 machine with integrated DOS for running old DOS games and applications.The emulated machine allows you to control the speed of old games and emulate old hardware like sound cards and video cards regardless of the host operating system. The integrated DOS also allows you to directly start games without first having to setup DOS in a virtual machine.

April 2009 – dotProject

dotProject is a Project Management tool written in PHP that aims to be a best-of-breed project management system. Rather than a generic container approach like a CMS or groupware app, we decided that we would do a generic project management tool. We are not industry (or use specific), it’s not a project planning tool – it is designed to serve as an information gathering and progress reporting tool.

March 2009 – Frets On Fire

Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible. The game comes with four songs and more can be made with the built-in editor.

February 2009 – ZK – Simply Ajax and Mobile

ZK is the most proven Ajax + Mobile framework designed to maximize enterprises operation efficiency and minimize the development cost. With groundbreaking Direct RIA architecture, ZK simplifies and speeds the creation, deployment and maintenance of rich Internet applications.

January 2009 – TinyMCE

The TinyMCE project is about creating a WYSIWYG JavaScript open source editor. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances and is very easy to implement.

December 2008 – OrangeHRM – Human Resource Management

OrangeHRM is an Open Source Human Resource Management System that covers Personnel Information Management, Employee Self Service, Leave, Time & Attendance, Benefits, and Recruitment. Tags: HRM, HRMS, HCM, HRIS, EHRMS, Human Capital Management

November 2008 – shareaza

Shareaza is a multi-network peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows.

October 2008 – concrete5

concrete5 is a content management system, built in PHP, that makes it easy for anyone to run a website. It will save the planet.

September 2008 – WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality.

August 2008 – Enomalism

Enomalism allows users to create and run any application without worry of infrastructure failure. It is a cost effective way to setup your infrastructure as a scalable world wide virtual compute utility similar to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud.

July 2008 – Kablink (formerly ICEcore)

Kablink is an extensible collaboration platform that unifies team workspaces with real-time conferencing. It allows teams to boost productivity and reduce communication costs by providing a collaboration platform users can adapt to fit their own changing needs.

June 2008 – PowerFolder

PowerFolder is a Secure, Peer-to-Peer File Transfer Tool. Sync, Access, Share, Backup and Transfer files over the Internet or in LAN. Sync home and office PC, share holiday pictures or work together on documents.

May 2008 – MindTouch

MindTouch Deki Wiki is a free open source wiki. Deki Wiki is an easy to use wiki and extensible enterprise and social application platform.

February 2008 – ehcache

A simple, fast and thread safe cache for Java. ehcache provides memory and disk stores and distributed operation for clusters. ehcache is widely used in such open source projects as Hibernate, Spring and Cocoon.

January 2008 – Hyperic HQ Enterprise Monitoring

Hyperic HQ – open source systems management, Apache management, Tomcat management, LAMP management, WebLogic management, virtualization management, VMware management, WebSphere management, Xen management, JBoss management, and WAMP management.

December 2007 – Firebird

Firebird RDBMS offers many ANSI SQL features & runs on Linux, Windows & several Unix platforms. Features excellent concurrency & performance & powerful stored procedure & trigger language. WEBSITE link above right, TRACKER http://tracker.firebirdsql.org

October 2007 – Barcode4J

Barcode4J is a flexible generator for barcodes written in Java and available under the Apache License v2.0. Features: Extensions for Apache FOP, Xalan-J and SAXON, Servlet, command-line interface, output to SVG, EPS, Java2D/AWT and bitmaps.

September 2007 – Openbravo

Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production, it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more

August 2007 – Inkscape

Inkscape is a Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.

May 2007 – Scorched 3D

Scorched3D is a 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players and remotely across the internet or LAN.

April 2007 – Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion is a full featured 3D modelling, rendering, and animation studio. It is written entirely in Java, and can run on almost any operating system.

March 2007 – Zenoss Core – Enterprise IT Monitoring

Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms.

February 2007 – FreeCol

FreeCol is an open version of Colonization. It is a Civilization-like game in which the player has to conquer the new world.

January 2007 – FreeNAS

NAS (Network Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS, FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, AFP, Unison, UPnP, iSCSI protocols, local and MS Domain authentication, Software RAID (JBOD,0,1,5), disk encryption with a Full WEB configuration interface. 32MB only.

December 2006 – Rosegarden

MIDI and Audio Sequencer and Notation Editor for Linux.

October 2006 – Pentaho – Business Intelligence

A complete business intelligence platform that includes reporting, analysis (OLAP), dashboards, data mining and data integration (ETL). Use it as a full suite or as individual components that are accessible via web services. Ranked #1 in open source BI.

September 2006 – Linux NTFS file system support

The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (1.2, 3.x, and later), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPL programs.

July 2006 – openQRM

openQRM is an open source systems management platform which integrates with existing components in enterprise data centers. openQRM is derived from a proven commercial product and distributed under a modified Mozilla Public License.

June 2006 – Sahana disaster management system

Sahana is a web based disaster / crisis / emergency management tool that addresses the common coordination problems from finding missing people, managing aid, volunteers, tracking camps and needs effectively between Government groups, NGOs and victims

May 2006 – Stellarium

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

April 2006 – Filesystem in Userspace

FUSE makes it possible to implement a filesystem in a userspace program. Features include: simple yet comprehensive API, secure mounting by non-root users, support for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels, multi-threaded operation. etc…

March 2006 – CMU Sphinx

Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer released under a BSD style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition systems.

February 2006 – FreeMind

A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.

January 2006 – Nullsoft Scriptable Install System

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

December 2005 – FCKeditor

Online text editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, Java and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful features of known desktop editors like Word. It’s XHTML compliant and works with Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and IE.

November 2005 – NHibernate

A .NET port of the excellent Java Hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org) relational persistence tool.

October 2005 – MediaWiki

MediaWiki is the collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and other projects. It’s designed to handle a large number of users and pages without imposing too rigid a structure or workflow.

September 2005 – MinGW – Minimalist GNU for Windows

MinGW: A native Win32 port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality.

August 2005 – Gourmet

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer for GNOME that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports mealmaster & mastercook files and exports webpages & other formats. Gourmet uses python, gtk and metakit.

July 2005 – JasperReports – Java Reporting

JasperReports, the market leading open source business intelligence and reporting engine. This project is being moved to http://www.jasperforge.org/. This project is the home for all things Jasper, Reports, Analysis, Server, and Intelligence.

June 2005 – Nagios

Nagios is a powerful host and service monitoring program designed to run on most *NIX systems. It is written in C and designed to be fast and flexible. It has the ability to contact administrators via email, pager, or other user-defined methods.

May 2005 – Robosapien Dance Machine

Robosapien Dance Machine – completely control your Robosapien with just your voice while you unleash the funky power of your Robosapien! Create dances, your own comedy movies, and more with this powerful interactive script editor.

April 2005 – net-snmp

net-snmp provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including: An extensible agent, An SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, etc.

March 2005 – OGRE (O-O Graphics Rendering Engine)

An efficient, object-oriented hardware accelerated 3D engine. It abstracts the differences between APIs and platforms and allows scene-oriented coding through an easy to use object model. Adaptable to multiple scene types (indoor, outdoor, whatever)

February 2005 – ClamWin Free Antivirus

MS Windows front-end to Clam Antivirus (http://www.clamav.net). Includes scheduler, virus database updates, standalone scanner, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program.

January 2005 – RSSOwl | RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader

RSSOwl is a RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Read News in a tabfolder, save favorites in categories, Export to PDF / RTF / HTML / OPML, Import Feeds from OPML, perform fulltext-search, use internal browser

December 2004 – TortoiseCVS

TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: coloured icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity.

November 2004 – PearPC – PowerPC Emulator

PearPC is an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. It includes a JITC for x86-Processors.

October 2004 – SugarCRM

SugarCRM v4.5.1 now available! A complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.

September 2004 – Azureus

Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.

August 2004 – Bochs x86 PC emulator

Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS’s, all on your workstation.

July 2004 – Audacity

A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo.

June 2004 – AWStats

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web/Mail/FTP statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, os, browsers, search engines, keywords, robots visits, broken links and more…

May 2004 – eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration

eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on a custom set of PHP-based APIs. Currently available modules include: email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do’s, phone calls), content management, forum, bookmarks, wiki

April 2004 – BZFlag – Multiplayer 3D Tank Game

OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform Battle Zone capture the Flag. 3D first person Tank Simulation.

March 2004 – Mailman

Mailman is the GNU mailing list manager. It provides standard list management features, integrated with a web interface. Please note: the subversion repository has been retired. Please see http://wiki.list.org/x/DgAJ for details.

February 2004 – Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution

Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global market covering all areas from order and customer/supplier management, supply chain to accounting. For $5-500M revenue companies looking for “brick and click” first tier functionality.

January 2004 – phpBB

phpBB is the worlds leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in todays top of the line software.

December 2003 – PhpGedView

PhpGedView parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on the internet in formats and charts that you are familiar with. It also allows relatives to edit their genealogy online and collaborate together on their research.

November 2003 – FileZilla

FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.

October 2003 – Gallery

A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install, configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and privileged albums make this great for communities.

September 2003 – TightVNC

TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include bandwidth-friendly “Tight” encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.

August 2003 – Boa Constructor – wxPython GUI Builder

A RAD GUI Building IDE for wxPython.

July 2003 – Tikiwiki

Powerful multilingual Wiki/CMS/Groupware: File/Image gallery,Article,Blog,Tracker/Forms,Forum,Poll/Survey & Quiz,Newsletter,Calendar,Drawing,Bookmarks,FAQ,Banner ads,Categories,Spreadsheet,Maps,Workflow,Search,Theme control,WAP,VoiceXML,RSS,LDAP,Stats…

June 2003 – MegaMek

MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map.

May 2003 – POPFile – Automatic Email Classification

POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, POP3, SMTP, NNTP proxies and IMAP filter and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.

April 2003 – JBoss.org

The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java

March 2003 – TUTOS

TUTOS is _T_he _U_ltimate _T_eam _O_rganization _S_oftware, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM/PLM system to manage your and your teams appointments, addresses, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents, notes and your time spent with those things.

February 2003 – Crystal Space 3D SDK

Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc.

January 2003 – SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is a PHP-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has strong MIME support and a flexible plugin system.

December 2002 – phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

November 2002 – Fink

Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg, all with full dependency tracking.

October 2002 – Gaim

Gaim has been renamed to Pidgin. Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about.php for more information.

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