Business Software

"OpenOffice.org provides everything most people need in an office productivity suite. It is stable, reliable, and robust, built up over twenty years' development. Unlike its major competitor, it was designed from the start as a single piece of software, which makes for higher quality software and a more consistent user experience. It is actively developed, with several releases every year. The main components of the OpenOffice.org Suite are the Writer wordprocessor (screenshot); the Calc spreadsheet (screenshot); Impress for presentations (screenshot); Draw for graphics (screenshot); and the Base database (screenshot)." - OpenOffice.org

"Enjoy a safer and better Web experience with the Firefox Web browser." - FireFox.com

"Protecting your email is our top priority. Thunderbird keeps your email safely stored, protects you from phishing attacks and junk mail, and provides advanced features for email encryption." - Thunderbird.com

"GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows." - GnuCash.org

"Compiere, Inc. bases its products and business on the idea that innovation and business value thrive in an environment of openness. This is why Compiere embraces open standards, open architecture and open source. Because of our "open" thinking, customers like you are able to use our open source ERP software solutions to automate financial, distribution, sales and service processes — quickly, easily and affordably — today and in the future." - Compiere.com

Graphics & Publishing

"Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation." - Scribus.net

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)" - Gimp.org

"An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development." - Inkscape.org

Multimedia Software

"Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License." - Blender.org

Sound & Video

"Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux and Unix, MacOS X and Windows with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before - and it looks good doing it!" - amarok.kde.org

"xine is a free a multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs.  It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.  It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available – and some of the most uncommon formats, too." - http://www.xine-project.org

"VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network." - videolan.org/vlc/