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Hardware Devices that Support GNU/Linux

Knowing which hardware devices support GNU/Linux is important not only for practical reasons---you want your hardware to work with the software that you want to use---but also for ethical and political reasons. You can help the free software movement by purchasing hardware from manufacturers who support our goals and not purchasing from those who don't.

If you have a contribution to make to this section, please send it to <hardware@fsf.org>. For example, if you are using gNewSense with a hardware device that isn't listed here, let us know. Because gNewSense does not distribute binary firmware, if a device works with it, then that means we should have that device listed here.

We also want to include information about devices that are confirmed to not work with free software. Please send us those reports as well.

We are looking for volunteers to help us maintain this section, by doing research and reviewing reports we receive. If you would like to volunteer to help build this important resource, let us know at the above address.

Our effort focuses on the GNU/Linux operating system. However, if we receive information regarding compatibility with other free operating systems, like those from the BSD family, we will be happy to include that information as well.

Read our contributor's guidelines for what information should be included in a report.

You may also find some useful information at Vendor Watch, although this site takes into account other concerns along with free software compatibility.

Ryan's Linux Inventory Aggregator may also be useful for you to easily gather information about the hardware on your system.

Here is a list of Linux drivers that require proprietary firmware. If you are shopping for hardware, you should avoid anything that requires a driver on this list.

Ubuntu's Free Software Drivers page provides a scoring system rating various vendors on their support for free software operating systems.

Best Open Source Project?

1.	Firefox http://www.getfirefox.com/	214 votes 3982 pts
2.	Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...i/Wikipedia Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists...	194 votes 3536 pts
3.	Apache Server Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet. http://www.apache.org/	114 votes 1877 pts
4.	Linux (GNU/Linux) Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source...	108 votes 1847 pts
5.	Ubuntu Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy:...	100 votes 1722 pts
6.	PHP http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be... http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. [show less]	76 votes 1141 pts
7.	VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/	69 votes 1039 pts
8.	OpenOffice A free, open source replacement for MS office, and it mostly works well with MS documents. Download at http://www.openoffice.org/	66 votes 965 pts
9.	Python http://www.python.org/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software... http://www.python.org/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code. [show less]	57 votes 955 pts
10.	Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using...	52 votes 822 pts
11.	MySQL MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its ...	61 votes 799 pts
12.	Blender 3D Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback....	52 votes 779 pts
13.	FreeBASIC FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible...	39 votes 778 pts
14.	Debian http://www.debian.org/ The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many...	51 votes 771 pts
15.	BitTorrent http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most...	58 votes 756 pts
16.	Drupal More than just a CMS, perhaps the finest constructed middleware application server platform in all of Open Source-dom.	43 votes 712 pts
17.	Gimp http://www.gimp.org/	53 votes 709 pts
18.	Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved "... http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved " and the public domain " no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work " a "some rights reserved" copyright. [show less]	43 votes 662 pts
19.	SourceForge.net http://sourceforge.net/	49 votes 636 pts
20.	GCC - GNU Compiler Collection, http://gcc.gnu.org Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more,... Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, back-ends for all the popular platforms, and ones you've never heard of. [show less]	42 votes 589 pts
21.	PostgreSQL The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management... The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. [show less]	38 votes 531 pts
22.	Joomla Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for... Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. [show less]	28 votes 507 pts
23.	Java Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open... Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specification, and a platform-independent promise of compatibility, Java technology became a gold standard in embedded devices, mobile phones, on the desktop and within the enterprise. Now, in 2006, Sun is open sourcing its implementations of Java technology as Free/Libre software. Project Page : http://java.sun.com/ [show less]	41 votes 504 pts
24.	Thunderbird An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available.... An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available. http://www.mozilla.com/thun...hunderbird/ [show less]	40 votes 501 pts
25.	Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and... http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. [show less]	34 votes 495 pts
26.	Amarok Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it... Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it out. http://amarok.kde.org [show less]	31 votes 479 pts
27.	Wordpress A fantastically dynamic blogging software.	34 votes 437 pts
28.	Subversion Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for... Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS, is superior to most commercial cm systems, and controls the code of much of the open source world. [show less]	35 votes 423 pts
29.	FreeBSD FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It... FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley, and is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones. FreeBSD provides robust network services under the heaviest loads and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for thousands of simultaneous user processes. [show less]	24 votes 341 pts
30.	MIT's OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/ A free education from MIT!	25 votes 334 pts

31.	Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Collaborative social tagging/bookmarking site, with that oh-so-catchy url spelling.	26 votes 320 pts
32.	MPlayerMEncoder The Movie Player and Movie Encoder supporting binary DLLs, skins, filters, browser embedding, all possible media, and all... The Movie Player and Movie Encoder supporting binary DLLs, skins, filters, browser embedding, all possible media, and all imaginable filetypes, as well as conversion between formats. [show less]	23 votes 318 pts
33.	Adium X Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.	22 votes 299 pts
34.	Inkscape Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using... Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. [show less]	22 votes 251 pts
35.	XviD if you are into video compression technology and have a understanding of C this might be for you.	22 votes 245 pts
36.	Digg.com http://www.Digg.com/ The poster child for user moderated news. Although the software is not technically "open source" (although... http://www.Digg.com/ The poster child for user moderated news. Although the software is not technically "open source" (although they do host on Debian), the manner that the frontpage news is decided by the users embodies the open source philosophy [show less]	24 votes 241 pts
37.	Gaim Instant messenger for AIM/ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, SILC, and Yahoo.	24 votes 235 pts
38.	Perl http://www.perl.com \ Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a... http://www.perl.com Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more. [show less]	19 votes 223 pts
39.	Stumble Upon - Social Bookmarking Tool "Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of... "Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent pages that have been stumbled upon by other web-users" . . . BBC [show less]	17 votes 205 pts
40.	Samba http://www.samba.org Connecting the Unix and Windows world.	19 votes 193 pts
41.	KDE Multiplatform Window Manager	14 votes 189 pts
42.	Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge...eforge.net/	18 votes 181 pts
43.	Grupthink http://www.grupthink.com/ recursion at work :o)	15 votes 176 pts
44.	Celtx Media Pre-Production Software Film/Video/Theatre/M achinima/Gaming Start your story, write a screenplay, do a breakdown, organize... Media Pre-Production Software Film/Video/Theatre/Machinima/Gaming Start your story, write a screenplay, do a breakdown, organize your production, collaborate with others, publish your Project [show less]	12 votes 173 pts
45.	Putty PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. License... PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. License info: The PuTTY executables and source code are distributed under the MIT licence, which is similar in effect to the BSD licence. (This licence is Open Source certified and complies with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.) Project page: http://www.chiark.greenend....tham/putty/ [show less]	16 votes 168 pts
46.	The GPL http://www.gnu.org/copyleft...ft/gpl.html The GNU General Public License; what started it all...	16 votes 163 pts
47.	Beryl Open source window manager that utilizes OpenGL to create interesting and useful effects.	13 votes 161 pts
48.	Django Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.... Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. http://djangoproject.com [show less]	10 votes 161 pts
49.	Moodle http://www.moodle.org	11 votes 159 pts
50.	GNOME Desktop Free, usable, accessible, international, developer-friendly, organized, support for all dists and worldwide community Desktop.	12 votes 153 pts
51.	Trac Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to... Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. [show less]	11 votes 148 pts
52.	OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts... http://www.openbsd.org The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX. [show less]	12 votes 144 pts
53.	Democracy Player http://getdemocracy.com/	14 votes 124 pts
54.	Asterisk Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a... Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. [show less]	12 votes 122 pts
55.	Cygwin # Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API... # Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. # A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel. Project Page: http://www.cygwin.com/ [show less]	15 votes 119 pts
56.	Ffmpeg An open source media format converter. Converting more than thousands of video, audio and graphic formats to one another.... An open source media format converter. Converting more than thousands of video, audio and graphic formats to one another. Command-line interface to make batch conversion easier. [show less]	11 votes 118 pts
57.	Gallery http://gallery.sf.net is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to... http://gallery.sf.net is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their websites. [show less]	10 votes 114 pts
58.	Free1x2 Free1x2 is the first free program of sports lotteries in Spain and of opened code (GPL). With Free1x2 you will be able to realize... Free1x2 is the first free program of sports lotteries in Spain and of opened code (GPL). With Free1x2 you will be able to realize sophisticated combinations of sports lotteries, thanks to his great quantity of conditions and an extensive list of utilities. You can find it at http://www.1x2occidente.com [show less]	5 votes 100 pts
59.	TWiki TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) is definitely in this list ! TWiki is a flexible and easy to use enterprise collaboration platform... TWiki (http://www.twiki.org) is definitely in this list ! TWiki is a flexible and easy to use enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. [show less]	9 votes 99 pts
60.	MythTV An open source PVR project.	11 votes 97 pts

61.	OpenJDK https://openjdk.dev.java.net/	9 votes 96 pts
62.	ReactOS ReactOS is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible... ReactOS is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface. [show less]	7 votes 93 pts
63.	Yoism http://yoism.org/ The world's first open source religion	7 votes 92 pts
64.	Cyberduck http://cyberduck.ch/	7 votes 88 pts
65.	FileZilla FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.	13 votes 85 pts
66.	Azureus Arguably the best bittorrent client. http://azureus.sourceforge....eforge.net/ Azureus is a BitTorrent client written in Java. The... Arguably the best bittorrent client. http://azureus.sourceforge....eforge.net/ Azureus is a BitTorrent client written in Java. The BitTorrent protocol is a new way of exchanging or distributing data over the internet. Downloading also means uploading, and the amounts of each are linked, to ensure fairness and rapidity in the spread of the file at hand. To be able to download a file, you first need to get the associated .torrent file. This file, usually a dozen KB in size, is the signature of the much bigger file to be downloaded, and it needs special software to be read properly. Azureus is one of those types of software. If you want to host files yourself, you need a tracker, which is basically a central server coordinating the connections between peers. Azureus can provide a tracker too. You will find, as you discover its functionality, that it easy to customize your copy of Azureus to exactly fit your needs. This guide is being developed on basis of an older User Guide and the 2.4.0.2 version of Azureus (Windows and Macintosh versions). [show less]	12 votes 85 pts
67.	Kopete Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It... Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and more. It is designed to be a flexible and extensible multi-protocol system suitable for personal and enterprise use. [show less]	7 votes 84 pts
68.	TinyMCE TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode... TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate and a lot of Open Source CMS use TinyMCE. [show less]	11 votes 83 pts
69.	Human Genome Project Begun formally in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project was a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the... Begun formally in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project was a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances accelerated the completion date to 2003. Project goals were to * identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA, * determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA, * store this information in databases, * improve tools for data analysis, * transfer related technologies to the private sector, and * address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project. To help achieve these goals, researchers also studied the genetic makeup of several nonhuman organisms. These include the common human gut bacterium Escherichia coli, the fruit fly, and the laboratory mouse. Sequence and analysis of the human genome working draft was published in February 2001 and April 2003 issues of Nature and Science. See an index of these papers and learn more about the insights gained from them. [show less]	8 votes 82 pts
70.	Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/wi...i/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection... http://www.gutenberg.org/wi...i/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. Our collection was produced by hundreds of volunteers. It's a large colection of free books. This archive contains almost 10.000 books. The application sources are available for download from sourceforge.net website. hosted by Ibiblio http://www.ibiblio.org/ [show less]	9 votes 80 pts
71.	Foobar 2000 Extremely powerful but good looking music library thing	6 votes 79 pts
72.	Webmin web front end to linux admin functions	8 votes 78 pts
73.	DokuWiki DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at... DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files " no database is required. [show less]	7 votes 77 pts
74.	XBMC - Xbox Media Center http://www.xboxmediacenter....center.com/ XboxMediaCenter is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox from Microsoft.... http://www.xboxmediacenter....center.com/ XboxMediaCenter is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox from Microsoft. Currently XboxMediaCenter can be used to play/view most common video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, GIF plus many more less known formats directly from a CD/DVD in Xbox DVD-ROM drive or of Xbox hard-drive, XBMC can also stream files from a PC over a local network and even stream media streams directly from the internet. XBMC has playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast and many audio visualizations. All these features enable the Xbox running XboxMediaCenter to fully function as a

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Best Open Source Project?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...i/Wikipedia Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists...

Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet. http://www.apache.org/

Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of open source...

http://www.ubuntu.com/ Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy:...

http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be...

http://www.php.net PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. [show less]

A free, open source replacement for MS office, and it mostly works well with MS documents. Download at http://www.openoffice.org/

http://www.python.org/ Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software...

http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using...

MySQL is the fast, simple-to-use database engine driving the vast majority of open source-powered websites, for which its ...

Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback....

FreeBASIC - as the name suggests - is a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with the syntax the most compatible...

http://www.debian.org/ The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many...

http://www.bittorrent.com/ BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most...

More than just a CMS, perhaps the finest constructed middleware application server platform in all of Open Source-dom.

http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright " all rights reserved "...

Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more,...

Open source would not have gotten far without free and open source compilers. GCC has front-ends for C, C++, Fortran, and more, back-ends for all the popular platforms, and ones you've never heard of. [show less]

The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management...

The World's most advanced open-source database. Highly scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. [show less]

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for...

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. [show less]

Yes, Java is going open source! Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open...

An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available....

An awesome free mail client, and a great alternative to Outlook. Calendar and other extensions are available. http://www.mozilla.com/thun...hunderbird/ [show less]

http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and...

http://www.rubyonrails.org Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. [show less]

Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it...

Rediscover your music! Consistently voted best music player on Linux. Coming to Windows next year. Try it out. http://amarok.kde.org [show less]

A fantastically dynamic blogging software.

Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for...

Subversion (SVN) is an open source application for revision control. It is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS, is superior to most commercial cm systems, and controls the code of much of the open source world. [show less]

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, amd64 compatible, ARM, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures. It...

http://ocw.mit.edu/ A free education from MIT!

http://del.icio.us/ Collaborative social tagging/bookmarking site, with that oh-so-catchy url spelling.

The Movie Player and Movie Encoder supporting binary DLLs, skins, filters, browser embedding, all possible media, and all...

The Movie Player and Movie Encoder supporting binary DLLs, skins, filters, browser embedding, all possible media, and all imaginable filetypes, as well as conversion between formats. [show less]

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using...

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. [show less]

if you are into video compression technology and have a understanding of C this might be for you.

http://www.Digg.com/ The poster child for user moderated news. Although the software is not technically "open source" (although...

http://www.Digg.com/ The poster child for user moderated news. Although the software is not technically "open source" (although they do host on Debian), the manner that the frontpage news is decided by the users embodies the open source philosophy [show less]

Instant messenger for AIM/ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, SILC, and Yahoo.

http://www.perl.com \ Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a...

http://www.perl.com Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more. [show less]

"Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of...

"Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent pages that have been stumbled upon by other web-users" . . . BBC [show less]

http://www.samba.org Connecting the Unix and Windows world.

Multiplatform Window Manager

http://www.grupthink.com/ recursion at work :o)

Media Pre-Production Software Film/Video/Theatre/M achinima/Gaming Start your story, write a screenplay, do a breakdown, organize...

Media Pre-Production Software Film/Video/Theatre/Machinima/Gaming Start your story, write a screenplay, do a breakdown, organize your production, collaborate with others, publish your Project [show less]

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. License...

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft...ft/gpl.html The GNU General Public License; what started it all...

Open source window manager that utilizes OpenGL to create interesting and useful effects.

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design....

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. http://djangoproject.com [show less]

http://www.moodle.org

Free, usable, accessible, international, developer-friendly, organized, support for all dists and worldwide community Desktop.

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to...

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. [show less]

http://www.openbsd.org The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts...

Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux, BSD and MacOSX and provides all of the features you would expect from a...

# Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API...

# Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. # A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel. Project Page: http://www.cygwin.com/ [show less]

An open source media format converter. Converting more than thousands of video, audio and graphic formats to one another....

An open source media format converter. Converting more than thousands of video, audio and graphic formats to one another. Command-line interface to make batch conversion easier. [show less]

http://gallery.sf.net is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to...

Free1x2 is the first free program of sports lotteries in Spain and of opened code (GPL). With Free1x2 you will be able to realize...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...i/Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an international Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia. It exists...

Even if you think you've never used Apache, you have. Apache serves 70% of all websites on the internet.

http://www.apache.org/

http://www.ubuntu.com/
Linux for human beings! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu
Philosophy:...

http://www.php.net

PHP: Widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be...

http://www.python.org/
Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software...

http://www.eclipse.org/
Eclipse is an open source IDE project that can be used for all sorts of development. I have been using...

http://www.debian.org/
The universal operating system. This distribution is the rock on which Ubuntu, Knoppix, DSL, and many...

http://www.bittorrent.com/
BitTorrent is a peer-assisted, digital content delivery platform that provides the fastest, most...

http://www.rubyonrails.org
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and...

http://ocw.mit.edu/
A free education from MIT!

http://del.icio.us/
Collaborative social tagging/bookmarking site, with that oh-so-catchy url spelling.

http://www.perl.com \
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a...

http://www.samba.org
Connecting the Unix and Windows world.

http://www.grupthink.com/
recursion at work :o)

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft...ft/gpl.html
The GNU General Public License; what started it all...

http://www.openbsd.org
The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts...

http://gallery.sf.net
is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to...