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This article is about software free to be modified and distributed. For examples of software free in the monetary sense, see List of freeware.

This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source.[1] For more information about the philosophical background for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here. Some of the open-source applications are also the basis of commercial products, shown in the List of commercial open-source applications and services.

Artificial intelligence

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General AI

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Computer vision

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Machine learning

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Planning

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  • TREX – Reactive planning

Robotics

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Assistive technology

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Speech (synthesis and recognition)

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Other assistive technology

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CAD

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Main category: Free computer-aided design software

Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

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  • Gmsh – A three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities.

Electronic design automation (EDA)

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Main category: Free electronic design automation software
See also: Comparison of EDA software
See also: List of free electronics circuit simulators

Computer simulation

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Main article: List of free and open-source computer simulation software

Cybersecurity

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Main article: Cybersecurity

Antivirus

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See also: Antivirus software

Data loss prevention

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See also: Data loss prevention software

Data recovery

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See also: Data recovery and List of data recovery software

Forensics

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See also: Forensic science
Anti-forensics
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See also: Anti-forensics

Disk erasing

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See also: Disk Cleanup

Encryption

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See also: Encryption, Encryption software, and List of cryptographic file systems

Disk encryption

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See also: Disk encryption and Disk encryption software

Firewall

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See also: Firewall (computing)

Network and security monitoring

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Main category: Free network management software

Secure Shell (SSH)

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See also: Secure Shell

Password management

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Other cybersecurity programs

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Main category: Free security software

Data storage and management

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Backup software

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Main category: Free backup software

Database management systems (including administration)

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Main category: Free database management systems

Data mining

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Data Visualization Components

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  • ParaView – Plotting and visualization functions developed by Sandia National Laboratory; capable of massively parallel flow visualization utilizing multiple computer processors
  • VTK – Toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualisation.

Digital Asset Management software system

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Disk partitioning software

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Main category: Free partitioning software

Enterprise search engines

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ETLs (Extract Transform Load)

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File archivers

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Main category: Free data compression software

File systems

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Desktop publishing

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  • Collabora Online Draw and Writer – Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice accessible from a web browser. The Draw application is for flyers, newsletters, brochures and more, Writer has most of the functionality too.[3]
  • Scribus – Designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms.
  • LyX – A "What You See Is What You Mean" document creation system, LyX makes use of the LaTeX markup macro system for TeX, allowing the elegant creation of documents which match up with the layouts in it for various document classes.

E-book management and editing

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  • Calibre – Cross-platform suite of ebook software
  • Collabora Online Writer – Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice accessible from a web browser. Allows exporting in the EPUB format.[4]
  • Sigil – Editing software for e-books in the EPUB format

Education

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E-learning, learning support

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Main category: Virtual learning environment
  • ATutor – Web-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
  • Chamilo – Web-based e-learning and content management system
  • Claroline – Collaborative Learning Management System
  • DoceboLMS – SAAS/cloud platform for learning
  • eFront – Icon-based learning management system
  • H5P – Framework for creating and sharing interactive HTML5 content
  • IUP Portfolio – Educational platform for Swedish schools
  • ILIAS – Web-based learning management system (LMS)
  • Moodle – Free and open-source learning management system
  • OLAT – Web-based Learning Content Management System
  • Omeka – Content management system for online digital collections
  • openSIS – Web-based Student Information and School Management system
  • Sakai Project – Web-based learning management system
  • SWAD – Web-based learning management system

Academic advising

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  • FlightPath – Academic advising software for universities

Educational suites for children

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  • Tux Paint – Painting application for 3–12 year olds
  • GCompris – Educational entertainment, aimed at children aged 2–10

Language

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Operating systems

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Mind mapping & others

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Offline learning & Open data

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Main articles: Offline learning and Open data
  • Kiwix: A free and open-source offline web browser that allows users download Wikipedia entire content and use for offline learning, later was expanded with repositories for Wikimedia Foundation, public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, many of the Stack Exchange sites, and other resources.
  • OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap was developed in 2004, it uses Open data and users data input through Crowdsourcing and Web mapping to create a complete and downloadable alternative to other online maps, this allow users to enter data when there is no data available due to lack of governance and economic interest or due lower population of the places mapped

Typing

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  • KTouch – Touch typing lessons with a variety of keyboard layouts
  • Tux Typing – Typing tutor for children, featuring two games to improve typing speed

File managers

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Main category: Free file managers

Finance

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Accounting

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See also: Comparison of accounting software

Cryptocurrency

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See also: Cryptocurrency
  • Bitcoin – Blockchain platform, peer-to-peer decentralised digital currency
  • Ethereum – Blockchain platform with smart contract functionality

CRM

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See also: Customer relationship management
  • CiviCRM – Constituent Relationship Management software aimed at NGOs
  • iDempiere – Business Suite, ERP and CRM
  • SuiteCRM – Web-based CRM

ERP

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See also: Enterprise resource planning

Human resources

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  • OrangeHRM – Commercial human resource management

Microfinance

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Process management

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Games

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Main article: List of open-source video games

Action

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Application layer

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Chess

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Educational games

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Video game emulation

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Main article: Video game console emulator

Music video games

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Karaoke

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Rhythm game

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Puzzle

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Sandbox

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  • Minetest – An open source voxel game engine

Snake games

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Simulation

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Strategy

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Genealogy

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Main category: Free genealogy software

Geographic information systems

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of open source geographic information system software.

Graphical user interface

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Desktop environments

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Main category: Free desktop environments

Window managers

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Main category: Free X window managers

Windowing system

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Main category: Free windowing systems

Groupware

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Main category: Free groupware

Content management systems

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Main category: Free content management systems

Wiki software

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Main category: Free wiki software

Healthcare software

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Main articles: List of open-source health software and List of open-source bioinformatics software

Integrated library management software

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Image editor

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  • Darktable – Digital image workflow management, including RAW photo processing
  • digiKam – Integrated photography toolkit including editing abilities
  • GIMP – Raster graphics editor aimed at image retouching/editing
  • Inkscape – Vector graphics editor
  • Karbon – Scalable vector drawing application in KDE
  • Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines
  • LazPaint – Lightweight raster and vector graphics editor, aimed at being simpler to use than GIMP
  • LightZone – Free, open-source digital photo editor software application.
  • RawTherapee – Digital image workflow management aimed at RAW photo processing

Maps & Navigation

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  • OpenStreetMap – open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration.

Mathematics

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of open-source software for mathematics.

Computer algebra systems

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symbolic manipulation systems

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Statistics

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  • R – Statistics software

Numerical analysis

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  • Octave – Numerical analysis software
  • Scilab – Numerical analysis software

Geometry

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Spreadsheet

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Mobile software

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Media

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Audio editors, audio management

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Main article: Comparison of free software for audio

CD/USB-writing software

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Main category: Free optical disc authoring software

Flash animation

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Game engines

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Main article: List of game engines

Chess engines

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Graphics

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Main category: Free graphics software

2D

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  • Pencil2D – Simple 2D graphics and animation program
  • Synfig – 2D vector graphics and timeline based animation
  • TupiTube (formerly KTooN) – Application for the design and creation of animation
  • OpenToonz – Part of a family of 2D animation software
  • Krita – Digital painting, sketching and 2D animation application, with a variety of brush engines
  • Blender – Computer graphics software, Blender's Grease Pencil tools allow for 2D animation within a full 3D pipeline.
  • mtPaint – raster graphics editor for creating icons, pixel art

3D

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  • Blender – Computer graphics software featuring modeling, sculpting, texturing, rigging, simulation, rendering, camera tracking, video editing, and compositing
  • MakeHuman
  • OpenFX – Modeling and animation software with a variety of built-in post processing effects
  • Seamless3d – Node-driven 3D modeling software
  • Wings 3D – subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

Image galleries

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Main category: Free image galleries

Image viewers

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Multimedia codecs, containers, splitters

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Main category: Free multimedia codecs, containers, and splitters

Subtitle

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Television

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Main article: List of free television software
Main category: Free television software
See also: Comparison of PVR software packages

Video converters

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Main category: Free video conversion software

Video editing

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See also: List of video editing software § Free_(libre)_or_open-source

DVD authoring

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Other media packages

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Ripping

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Video encoders

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Main article: Comparison of video codecs

Video players

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Main article: Comparison of video player software

Networking and Internet

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Advertising

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E-mail

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Main category: Free email software

File transfer

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Main category: Free file transfer software

Grid and distributed processing

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Instant messaging

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Main category: Free instant messaging clients

IRC Clients

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Main category: Free IRC clients

Middleware

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RSS, Atom readers, aggregators

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Peer-to-peer file sharing

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Main category: Free file sharing software
See also: Category:Free BitTorrent clients

Portal Server

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Remote access and management

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Routing software

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Main category: Free routing software

Web browsers

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Main category: Free web browsers

Graphical

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Text-based

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Webcam

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  • Cheese – GNOME webcam application
  • Guvcview – Linux webcam application

Webgrabber

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  • Apache Cocoon – A web application framework
  • Apache – The most popular web server
  • AWStats – Log file parser and analyzer
  • BookmarkSync – Tool for browsers
  • Caddy – an extensible, cross-platform, open-source web server written in Go.
  • Cherokee – Fast, feature-rich HTTP server
  • curl-loader – Powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing tool
  • FileZilla – FTP
  • Hiawatha – Secure, high performance, and easy-to-configure HTTP server
  • HTTP File Server – User-friendly file server software, with a drag-and-drop interface
  • lighttpd – Resource-sparing, but also fast and full-featured, HTTP Server
  • Lucee – CFML application server
  • Nginx – Lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
  • NetKernel – Internet application server
  • Qcodo – PHP5 framework
  • Squid – Web proxy cache
  • Vaadin – Fast, Java-based framework for creating web applications
  • Varnish – High-performance web application accelerator/reverse proxy and load balancer/HTTP router
  • XAMPP – Package of web applications including Apache and MariaDB
  • Zope – Web application server

Web search engines

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Other networking programs

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Office software

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Text editors

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Software Platform Formats
AbiWord Linux, Windows .txt
Atom (text editor) macOS 10.9 or later, Windows 7 and later, and Linux .txt
gedit Linux, MacOS .txt
GNOME Text Editor Linux .txt
Kate (text editor) 25 Linux distributions, Microsoft Windows, macOS .txt
Leafpad Linux, BSD, Maemo .txt
Metapad Windows .txt
Mousepad Linux, BSD, Maemo .txt
Notepad++ Windows .txt
Visual Studio Code Linux, Windows, MacOS .txt

Spreadsheet software

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Software Operating system Format
Gnumeric Unix-like (Linux included) .gnm, .gnumeric
GNU Oleo Linux .oleo[5]
Pyspread Unix-like, Windows .CSV, .XLS, .SVG, .PDF
Sheetster Cross-platform JSON, XML, .XLS, .CSV, xlsx/.ooxml, .exml, .zip

Office suites

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  • Apache OpenOffice – The cross platform office productivity suite from Apache Software Foundation (ASF) consists of programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, diagrams and drawings, databases, etc.
  • Calligra Suite – The office productivity suite from KDE consists of programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital painting
  • Collabora Online – Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice, web application, mobile phone, tablet, Chromebook and desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux)[6]
  • LibreOffice – The cross platform office productivity suite from The Document Foundation (TDF) consists of programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, diagrams and drawings, databases, etc.
  • OnlyOffice Desktop Editors – An open-source offline edition of the Cloud

Operating systems

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Be advised that available distributions of these systems can contain, or offer to build and install, added software that is neither free software nor open-source.

Main category: Free software operating systems

Emulation and Virtualization

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Main category: Free emulation software
Main category: Free virtualization software

Personal information managers

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Programming language support

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Bug trackers

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Code generators

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Documentation generators

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  • Doxygen – Tool for writing software reference documentation. The documentation is written within code
  • Mkd – Extracts software documentation from source code files, pseudocode, or comments
  • Natural Docs – Claims to use a more natural language as input from the comments, hence its name

Configuration software

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Debuggers (for testing and trouble-shooting)

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Integrated development environments

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Main category: Free integrated development environments

Version control systems

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Main category: Free version control software

Reference management software

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See also: Comparison of reference management software

Risk Management

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Science

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Main category: Free science software

Bioinformatics

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See also: List of open-source bioinformatics software

Cheminformatics

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Electronic lab notebooks

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Geographic information systems

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Main category: Free GIS software

Geoscience

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See also: List of free geology software

Grid computing

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Microscope image processing

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  • CellProfiler – Automatic microscopic analysis, aimed at individuals lacking training in computer vision
  • Endrov – Java-based plugin architecture designed to analyse complex spatio-temporal image data
  • Fiji – ImageJ-based image processing
  • Ilastik – Image-classification and segmentation software
  • ImageJ – Image processing application developed at the National Institutes of Health
  • IMOD – 2D and 3D analysis of electron microscopy data
  • ITK – Development framework used for creation of image segmentation and registration programs
  • KNIME – Data analytics, reporting, and integration platform
  • VTK – C++ toolkit for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualisation
  • 3DSlicer – Medical image analysis and visualisation

Molecular dynamics

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  • GROMACS – Protein, lipid, and nucleic acid simulation
  • LAMMPS – Molecular dynamics software
  • MDynaMix – General-purpose molecular dynamics, simulating mixtures of molecules
  • ms2 – molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation package to predict thermophysical properties of fluids
  • NWChem – Quantum chemical and molecular dynamics software

Molecule viewer

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  • Avogadro – Plugin-extensible molecule visualisation
  • BALLView – Molecular modeling and visualisation
  • Jmol – 3D representation of molecules in many formats, for teaching use
  • Molekel – Molecule viewing software
  • MeshLab – Able to import PDB dataset and build up surfaces from them
  • PyMOL – High-quality representations of small molecules and biological macromolecules
  • QuteMol – Interactive molecule representations offering an array of innovative OpenGL visual effects
  • RasMol – Visualizes biological macromolecules

Nanotechnology

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Plotting

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Main category: Free plotting software

Quantum chemistry

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See also: List of quantum chemistry and solid-state physics software
  • CP2K – Atomistic and molecular simulation of solid-state, liquid, molecular, and biological systems

Screencast

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Screensavers

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Simulation software

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Statistics

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Main category: Free statistical software
  • R – Statistics software
  • LimeSurvey – Online survey system

Theology

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Bible study tools

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Typesetting

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Main category: Free typesetting software

See also

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General directories

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References

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  1. ^ Richard Stallman (July 13, 2011). "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software". Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "Further Development of Verification Check-casesforSix-Degree-of-Freedom Flight Vehicle Simulations" (PDF). NASA Engineering and Safety Center Academy. 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 10, 2021.
  3. ^ "Create great flyers, newsletters, brochures and more with open source software". opensource.com.
  4. ^ Bärwaldt, Eric (2020). "Collaborative online office solutions". Admin Network & Security. 60/2020. ...users can also convert text files to the ePub format for displaying appear on ebook readers or with desktop software for reading ePub files.
  5. ^ "File Formats".
  6. ^ Bärwaldt, Eric (2020-09-01). "Working Together Tools for collaborative office work". Linux Magazine (238/2020). For cross-platform use, the suite not only supports the Open Document Format (ODF) but also all newer Microsoft formats, which makes interaction with other office suites easier.
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