| Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community. |
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| 1. Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla Firefox is considered to be the most popular open source application and browser today. According to a statistics by W3School, Firefox is used by 47.1% of internet users while Internet Explorer 28%. Firefox holds a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008 – 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3. |
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| 2. Mozilla Thunderbird: is another Open Source application from Mozilla. Thunderbird is a desktop email client with lots of features and strong spam filtering. |
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| 3. Open Office: Open Office is an Open Source package which is alternative for Microsoft Office. Open office has great features including support for DOC and XLS files. Open office contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases etc. We can save all our Open Office work files in International Open Standard Format which can also read & write files from other standard office software packages. |
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| 4. GIMP: GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is another open source alternative for Adobe Photoshop which is the professional graphics application. GIMP also provides lots of features for graphics which can work with PSD files generated by Adobe Photoshop. |
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| 5. Pidgin: Pidgin (Previously called as GAIM) is an Open Source application for instant messenger which can support other IMs like MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ etc. for chatting with our friends. |
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| 6. VLC Media Player: VLC player is an open source media player and server which is well known which can support huge range of audio and video formats like MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MP3, OGG, AAC, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCD and many more. VLC has support for streaming media protocol as well. |
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| 7. ClamWIN: ClamWIN is an Open Source GPL virus scanner for Windows. ClamWIN can detect viruses and spyware at high rates, can schedule scanning for viruses, can update virus definition file regularly. And ClamWIN can be integrated with Microsoft Windows Explorer just by right clicking it. And ClamWIN can be integrated with Outlook as an Add-on to scan emails and attachments. |
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| 8. 7-Zip: 7-ZIP is an Open Source compression utility which can support for all popular compression formats besides 7-Zip compression has the best compression ratio compared to other popular applications. |
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| 9. Media Coder: Media Coder is an Open Source batch media transcoder for almost all popular media formats which can convert both audio and video formats. |
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| 10. FileZilla: FileZilla is another Open Source application for Windows which is a multi-platform full featured GUI Based FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. FileZilla is considered as the best available FTP client for windows. |
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| 11. Drupal: Drupal is highly flexible content management framework powering celebrity sites like MTV and Yahoo developer. Drupal bridges difference between a content management system like Joomla and a PHP based web framework like say Symfony. |
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| 12. Torrent: Torrent is almost all other BitTorrent clients like uTorrent, Azureus etc are open source so the list will be incomplete without inclusion of one from torrent family. |
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| 13. Eclipse: One of the most powerful and versatile IDE for developers of any language which has numerous plugins and can be extended. |
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| 14. Python: Python is the programming language which had come a long way in the past 8 years and is now preferred web development language too along with frameworks like Django. |
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