Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Communications Software

Communications Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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    WinSCP

    WinSCP

    WinSCP is a free SFTP, SCP, S3, WebDAV, and FTP client for Windows.

    WinSCP is a popular free file manager for Windows supporting SFTP, FTP, FTPS, SCP, S3, WebDAV and local-to-local file transfers. A powerful tool to enhance your productivity with a user-friendly interface and automation options like .NET assembly or batch file scripting. Use WinSCP also for file editing, directory synchronization and site management. WinSCP is open-source and well documented. It is available in English and many other languages.
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    Matroska is an open standard audio/video container format. Visit our homepage at http://www.matroska.org
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    VTun is the easiest way to create Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression, and encryption. It supports IP, Ethernet, PPP and other tunnel types. VTun is easily and highly configurable. VPN, Mobile IP, Shaping, etc
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    The portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK provides support for building UPnP-compliant control points, devices, and bridges on several operating systems. The main repository is at GitHub in https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp. This is just a clone repository for legacy reasons. Old SourceForge repo: git://pupnp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pupnp/pupnp
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    BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)

    BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)

    You can message and share files inside your intranet without a server.

    BeeBEEP is a free, open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) desktop LAN chat and office messenger built with end-to-end encryption (Rijndael Algorithm, AES). Designed for local area networks, this free cross-platform messaging app enables instant messaging, group chat, and secure file sharing across your office, home, or intranet—completely serverless and offline. Whether you need a private LAN chat application for your team or a secure office communicator over VPN, BeeBEEP operates without central servers or cloud dependencies. It is a free, serverless chat solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS where privacy, data security, and local network communication are essential.
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    Downloads: 2,472 This Week
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    DC++

    DC++

    A Windows client for the Direct Connect networks

    DC++ is an open source Windows client for the Direct Connect file sharing network. The DC network is a decentralized network, made up of individual servers (hubs) that users join to share files with other members on that hub. Each hub is individually run by a fellow user of the DC network, and may have certain themes to the content on the hub. Hub owners set up rules to regulate their hub as they see fit.
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    Downloads: 1,002 This Week
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    Snap7

    Snap7

    32/64 bit multi-platform Ethernet S7 PLC communication suite

    Snap7, through three specialized components: Client and the inedited Server and Partner, allows you to definitively integrate your PC based systems into a PLC automation chain. Designed to transfer large amounts of hi-speed data in industrial facilities, it scales easily, down to small Linux Arm boards such as Raspberry PI. Hi level object oriented wrappers are provided, currently C/C++, .NET/Mono, Pascal, LabVIEW, Python with many source code examples. Very easy to use, a full working server example is not bigger than the “Hello world”. Many projects/makefiles are ready to run to easily rebuild Snap7 in any platform without the need of be a C++ guru. Very detailed documentation provided.
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    Downloads: 824 This Week
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    QPrompt

    QPrompt

    Personal teleprompter software for all video makers.

    Free teleprompter software for all video creators. Built with ease of use, fast performance, control accuracy, and cross-platform support in mind. QPrompt works with studio teleprompters and tablet teleprompters, cellphones, and webcams. It was also designed for use in video conferences.
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    Downloads: 1,649 This Week
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    gSOAP Toolkit

    gSOAP Toolkit

    Development toolkit for Web Services and XML data bindings for C & C++

    The gSOAP toolkit is an extensive suite of portable C and C++ software to develop XML Web services with powerful type-safe XML data bindings. Easy-to-use code-generator tools allow you to directly integrate XML data in C and C++. Serializes native application data in XML. Includes WSDL/XSD schema binding and auto-coding tools, stub/skeleton compiler, Web server integration with Apache module and IIS extension, high-performance XML processing with schema validation, fast MIME/MTOM streaming, SOAP and REST Web API development, WS-* protocols (WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, etc), XML-RPC and JSON. Licensed under GPLv2. Visit the developer center with guides, tutorials, and examples at www.genivia.com/dev.html The documentation of the toolkit, libraries, plugins and more is available at www.genivia.com/docs.html Commercial-use licenses and expert technical support services are available at competitive pricing levels, please visit www.genivia.com/products.html
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    Downloads: 418 This Week
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    MSHV

    MSHV

    MSHV Amateur Radio Software

    MSHV Amateur Radio Software. Developed by LZ2HV - Christo mail: lz2hv@abv.bg Supported working modes: MSK144 MSKMS JTMS FSK441 FSK315 ISCAT JT6M FT8/4 JT65 PI4 Q65 System Requirements: Microsoft Windows Xp, Windows 7,8,10,11 32 or 64 Bit, Linux Fedora (Red hat), Ubuntu (Debian) . Compiling: MinGw recommended GCC 7.3.0 thread model posix. QT5.6.3 library. IDE recommended QDevelop 0.29. All other libraries included inside the source. Acknowledgements to K1JT Joe Taylor and WSJT Development Group. The algorithms, source code, look-and-feel of WSJT-X and related programs, and protocol specifications for the modes FSK441, FT8, JT4, JT6M, JT9, JT65, JTMS, QRA64, ISCAT, MSK144, are Copyright © 2001-2017 by one or more of the following authors: Joseph Taylor, K1JT; Bill Somerville, G4WJS; Steven Franke, K9AN; Nico Palermo, IV3NWV; Greg Beam, KI7MT; Michael Black, W9MDB; Edson Pereira, PY2SDR; Philip Karn, KA9Q; and other members of the WSJT Development Group.
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    Downloads: 597 This Week
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    Moodle

    Moodle

    A free course management system (CMS) to create online learning sites

    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. https://moodle.org/
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    Downloads: 333 This Week
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    Psi+

    Psi+

    Psi+ Project — development branch of Psi XMPP client

    Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.
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    Downloads: 403 This Week
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    bogofilter -- Fast Bayesian Spam Filter

    Fast Bayesian spam filter along lines suggested by Paul Graham

    The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter as suggested by Paul Graham in "A Plan For Spam" <http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html>. It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, RISC-OS, ...
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    Downloads: 335 This Week
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    aria2 - CLI Metalink/BitTorrent client

    A multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility

    aria2 is a multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink. It can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth.
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    Downloads: 151 This Week
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    This project implements a simple STUN server and client on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. The STUN protocol (Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs) is described in the IETF RFC 3489, available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3489.txt
    Downloads: 86 This Week
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    Grsync
    Grsync is used to synchronize folders, files and make backups. It is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface).
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    Siproxd is a proxy/masquerading daemon for the SIP protocol. It allows SIP clients (softphones & hardphones) to work behind an IP masquerading firewall or router.
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    Downloads: 58 This Week
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    File Transfer

    File Transfer

    Transfers files/folders P2P over LAN or Internet

    Client-server transfers files/folders P2P, fast and secure: transparent compression/encryption (SSL), pause/resume, TCP/UDP connection, auto-discover, proxy support (HTTP, SOCKS5), NAT Traversal (Teredo, UPnP), HTTP/FTP downloads, speed graph, chat.
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    MLDonkey is a multi-platform multi-network peer-to-peer client.
    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    A hack/port of Piero Orsoni's wonderful Grsync - rsync frontend in GTK - to Windows(win32).
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    Undernet Coder Committee -- ircu development
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    WiFi Password Recovery

    WiFi Password Recovery

    A free utility to recover the passwords of wireless networks

    WiFi Password Recovery is a free utility to recover the passwords of the WiFi networks saved on your computer. For example if you forgot the password of a WiFi network (which you have entered in the past), you can easily recover it thanks to this tool. WiFi Password Recovery provides a very simple user interface which shows also other informations (SSID, Interface, Security type, Encryption algorithm) for each wireless network. The program is able to recover the passwords of wireless networks which use the following security types: WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, WPA2-PSK.* GitHub Repository: https://github.com/EvolSoft/WiFi-Password-Recovery *Note: On Windows XP the passwords of WiFi networks using WPA security will be shown as 64 HEX digits. You can use these characters as password to connect to the wireless network anyway.
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    Downloads: 107 This Week
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    eMule Plus
    eMule Plus is an evolution of the original eMule project, created to improve its abilities and features, in both work efficiency and user interface.
    Downloads: 94 This Week
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    Seagull is a multi-protocol traffic generator. Especially targeted towards IMS, Seagull supports Diameter (RFC3588 and all applications) over TCP/SCTP and IPv4/IPv6 , TCAP (over SS7 or Sigtran), XCAP over HTTP and Radius.
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    Enhanced CTorrent is a BitTorrent client for unix-like environments. High performance with minimal system resources and dependencies is a priority.
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    Downloads: 18 This Week
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