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Desktop Environment Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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    KeePass

    KeePass

    A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager

    KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details.
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    Downloads: 963,741 This Week
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    GnuWin

    GnuWin

    Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities

    GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
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    Downloads: 32,209 This Week
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    Wine

    Wine

    Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X

    Wine is 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.
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    Downloads: 1,448 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 511 This Week
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    TkDND is an extension that adds native drag & drop capabilities to the Tk toolkit. It can be used with any Tk version equal or greater to 8.3.3 and currently only the UNIX (X-Windows), Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and OS X (Leopard) operating systems. Please note that sources have been moved to: https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd
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    Downloads: 228 This Week
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    Fluxbox
    Fluxbox is a X11 windowmanager build for speed and flexibility.
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    Downloads: 131 This Week
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    The AbiWord word processor is a full-featured cross-platform word processor.
    Downloads: 124 This Week
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    GCompris : I got IT

    GCompris : I got IT

    Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.

    GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.
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    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK+. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK+, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.
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    Downloads: 90 This Week
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    High-performance Open Source API Gateway

    KrakenD is a stateless, distributed, high-performance API Gateway that helps you effortlessly adopt microservices

    KrakenD is a high-performance API Gateway optimized for resource efficiency, capable of managing 70,000 requests per second on a single instance. The stateless architecture allows for straightforward, linear scalability, eliminating the need for complex coordination or database maintenance.
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    Hannah Montana Linux HML
    A LINUX designed for Hannah Montana fans
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    Downloads: 55 This Week
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    icewm is a window manager for the X Window System. The features of icewm are speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user's way.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Krusader is a twin-panel (commander style) filemanager for KDE. It supports mime-type, complete drag n' drop, multiple filesystems, archives, bookmarks etc. Krusader's GUI is intuitive, and allows an easy access to all of your file-management needs.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Big Green Clock
    A simple no frills large green seven segment desktop clock. Intended for use as a large clock display on netbooks sized screens. The Big Green Clock is avalable for the Windows and Linux operating systems.
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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    GTK 3 runtime for windows 32 & 64

    The files required to run GTK+ applications on Windows

    This project is designed to create a nsis installer with the latest gtk3 for windows 32 and 64 bits based on MinGW64 binaries found in OpenSUSE build service.
    Downloads: 42 This Week
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    LCARS 24
    Star Trek 24/7: LCARS (Starfleet) GUI, full-screen alarm clock & calendar, games, utilities, sims, maps, graphical LCARS library, file manager, viewers, players, animation. Requires a HighColor/TrueColor DOS-based laptop w/ std. graphics & sound cards.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    PangoPDF is now PangoXSL. PangoXSL implements several of the inline properties defined by XSL that are not currently implemented by Pango.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    Shows desktop information on your screen

    BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals. BGINFO4X is designed for pretty print useful information (CPU model, Hostname, IP address, OS version, Office version, and much more ...) on your desktop background or wallpaper. See the screenshots to see BGINFO4X in action. BGINFO4X is Multi Platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, BSD). BGINFO4X is Highly Customizable. BGINFO4X is Open Source. BGINFO4X comes with lots of Features. See the main Features below on this page. Find more information in http://sourceforge.net/p/bginfo4x/wiki/BGINFO4X/
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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Ruler

    Ruler

    For measuring desktop elements in pixels

    For measuring your screen in pixels (Requires .NET Framework 4.0 or higher)
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    GTK+ for Windows (MinGW)

    GTK+ for Windows (MinGW)

    Gtk 2&3 for Windows (MinGW)

    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    This system provides printed and cursive handwriting recognition service as a shared library on GNU/Linux/Unix systems. Until someone writes another client, try the S/HIP: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ship-project/
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    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    OpenGEM is a DOS GUI that seeks to combine FreeDOS and Digital Research GEM into a complete OS for low end machines.
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    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Xfce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure desktop environment using the popular GTK+ toolkit.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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