To complete this very rich list of software i've added some software FREE for Windows, i'm sorry with purist Open philosophy people :-P
This Project has very strong "collaborative nature", so I invite you to visit and edit with your favourite software, my Wiki page dedicated to this Open Source for Windows List
[Office] [Sys-Utility] [Network-Utility] [Instant Messaging] [Graphics] [Browsing-Mail] [Emulators] [Development]
[P2P] [Audio/Video] [Libraries] [Link&References]
Office
The most famous Open office suite, rival of MsOffice: it's simple to use and in continue developing. It's very simple to find some tutorial and guide.
Elawoffice
Open Software for the managing of a Law office. It works on crossplatform also on Linux.
Scribus
Scribus is a desktop publishing (DTP) application for Linux and Windows desktop users. Example uses include club newsletters, small newspaper production and animated interactive PDF presentations. Other uses include creating corporate stationery, brochures, small posters, and other documents which require flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality image-setting equipment. Scribus has even been used to produce full scale books.
PDFCreator
Tool to create and convert Pdf files.
Sys-Utility
Very good Free Antivirus for windows it have a scan-mail support and spyware detection.
AntiVir [FREE]
Good free System Scan antivirus easy to upgrade and configure, it doesn't have a scan-mail.
Clam AntiVirus ClamWin Antivuris ClamAV for Windows [GNU GPL]
Free Antivirus that do "stand alone" scanning. It doesn't support a live scan. It could be good to scan Cd, Dvd or Floppy or to remove infections.
7-Zip [GNU LGPL]
Open Utility to manage archives.
KeePass [BSD License]
Utility that store safety your passwords.
Abakt [GNU GPL]
Utility that do some intelligent and planning backup.
BurnAtOnce [FREE]
Hard disk are capable and big but... we want more: to solve this problem we can burn on cd some files, this free software help us to burn cd in a simple way.
Network-Utility
Easy access to Ftp server and remote FileManager.
Ethereal Network Analyzer [GNU GPL]
Very Good software to analyze a network.
Port scanner [GPL]
Scan the pc ports in a net.
MyDyndns [GNU GPL]
Refresh our ip, if we have a dynamic dns.
RealVNC
It's useful to remote assistance, good remote desktop control.
UltraVNC [Open]
Same features of RealVnc but with the advantages of Open Software.
Privoxy
Proxy that "stealth" our internet connection..
WinSCP
Software able to reach any remote filesystem.
SSHTools [GNU GPL]
Remote access with secure protocol Ssh.
FileZilla server
Good and easy Ftp Server.
wget [GNU GPL]
We can do the mirror of a website or download something on the net.
Instant Messaging
Very good Open Instant Messaging, you can connect to many IM net at the same time.
Skype + Video4Skype [FREE]
Very famous VoIP telephony software, with the Video4Skype plugin you can do a videoconference if you have a webcam.
X-Chat 2 [GNU GPL]
Very good Irc Client it support scripts and it's fully configurable and it's more secure than other "windows script irc client".
GnomeMeeting.org [GNU GPL]
Good Open Software for Videoconference.
OpenWengo [Open]
Open-Source software to telephone by net. The system offer support for SIP phones, videoconferences and SMS services. Great Software!
TipicIM [FREE]
New IM that include VoIP advantages.
Graphics
The GIMP [GNU GPL]
The Powerful and professional image editing Open software, try it!
Blender [GNU GPL or BL license]
The powerful and common professional 3d scene editor, it's used to build some entire animation films.
Jahshaka.org [GNU GPL]
Powerful Open Software used for Holliwood films. You can edit audio and video at the same time with great quality.
ImageMagick [GPL Cpmpatible License]
Flexible and tiny software to edit and view images.
Dia [GNU GPL]
Open Software to build diagram.
Sodipodi [GNU GPL]
One of the powerful Open software to a professional editing of our pictures.
zphoto [GNU LGPL]
With this Open Software we can build our photo album.
Browsing-Mail
Light and fully configurable Mail-manager, we can add an antispam antivirus scanmail system.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Very good and flexible mail Open software. It's fully integrated with windows interface and it have many plugin to customize its function. It's easy to use near Outlook Express.
Firefox
The emergent Open Browser it fight vs. Explorer. The advantages are the powerful, the security, tabbed browsing feature, many plugins and add-on, feed reader, popub block and so on... All net surfers should have Firefox.
FreePOPs [GNU GPL]
Italian Open Software that work with a mail client to download locally the content of a webmail.
Mailfilter [GNU GPL]
With Spamassassin, and Razor is a spam filter for our mailbox. It works with most of mail client.
Spambayes [GNU GPL]
Very good anti-spam filter... You must try it!
Opera [FREE] [GNU GPL]
Powerful browser, speedy and full of function. It's Free but we hope that it'll be Open in future.
Emulators
Open Dos Emulator good to start old dos games.
QEMU [GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MIT/BSD]
The powerful Open Generic Emulator.
MAME [FREE]
The most famous emulator dedicated to old video games (coin-up)
SCUMMVM[FREE]
Do you remember Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the last Crusade?,
Day of the tentacle?, Full Throttle?, do you wanna play again and
you have some problem to running these games with WinXP? Here we have the solution! SCUMM
(Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion).
Someone doesn't remember commodore64? "load", "Press play on tape", "Run" are waiting for you in this emulator.
Programming - Development Web
Good Open .Net porting, It's in development phase yet to support all the .Net features.
Python + Python for Windows extensions
Useful and powerful Program Language.
Free Pascal
Open edition of Pascal program language.
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Open Tool to create our installation wizard.
Nvu [MPL/LGPL/GPL]
Editor WYSIWYG Html, fully configurable and flexible and it respect the W3c standards for the webpages and it support the CSS management.
JTidy [Other license]
Open software for web developer; it check and put in right form, the sintax of the Html pages, according to W3c standards.
Php
Program language. It no needs presentation. Super to create web application.
P2P
The Powerful Open P2P and file sharing software. It can connect and share in many net at the same time.
eMule Plus [GNU GPL]
The most popular Open P2P software, it doesn't need a description...
Azureus [GNU GPL]
Open software for Bittorrent Net, it's witten in java and its start is a bit slow.
BitTornado [MIT]
Good open software for Bittorrent P2P net.
DC++ [GNU GPL]
Client to connect to many Direct Connect Hubs.
Audio-Video
MPlayer [GNU GPL] + MPLayer Control [GNU GPL]
Very good open software to multimedia play flexible, light fully configurable and fully of features and skin. It also play and rip Dvd.
Xine [GNU GPL]
Open Software to play multimedia files and Dvd, it's shortly released also for Windows platform.
Getdemocracy
Download and watch all the best internet TV shows and videos in one powerful application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide.
Codecs:
- ffdshow (DirectShow Decompression filter for DIVX) [GNU GPL]
- ffvfw (MPEG-4 Video for Windows codec) [GNU GPL]
- AC3Filter [GNU GPL]
- XviD [GNU GPL]
- Koepi's XviD binaries [GNU GPL]
- Nic's XviD binaries [GNU GPL]
- uManiac's XviD binaries [GNU GPL]
- Theora [BSD-style]
K-Lite
Open and Free codec collection.
StreamRipper [GNU GPL]
Open Software to record a live streaming.
VirtualDub [GNU GPL]
The powerful Open software for professional video editing it's able to rip Dvd in separate audio/video way.
DVD2AVI [GNU GPL]
Simple and funcional Open software for Dvd ripping.
Virtual VCR
Open software that simulate a vcr device; ideal to rec our tv card output.
DivFix [GNU GPL]
Software Open software to repair corrupt DivX, it reconstruct corrupt video index.
SubRip [GNU GPL]
Open software to rip Dvd subtitles.
DVD2AVIdg/MPEG2DECdg Decoding Fix [GNU GPL]
Good and powerful encoder and ripper for Dvd and conversion-compression video files.
CoolPlayer [GNU GPL]
Good open software to play audio files.
ShrinkTo5 [GNU GPL]
Very good open software similar to DvdShrink. You can simply compress a Dvd-video to burn it on 5gb Dvd.
VLC
Great multimedia player light and powerful. With it we can play a file ignoring some errors or corruption in file's index.
Libraries
- GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) [GNU LGPL]
- GTK+ for Windows [GNU LGPL]
- wxWindows
- The Fast Light Toolkit [GNU LGPL]
- gtkmm [GNU LGPL]
- SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) [GNU LGPL]
- wxPython [wxWindows License]
- WinPcap (Windows Packet Capture Library) [BSD]
- Little cms [GNU LGPL]
- Allegro [giftware]
- The GUI Toolkit, Framework Page
- Mesa3D [MIT-style license]
- VTK (The Visualization Toolkit) [Other/Proprietary License???]
- DirectP2P [GNU GPL or GNU LGPL] (development seems not to have started yet...)
- OpenPTC [GNU LGPL]
- Trivial Portable Framework Library [BSD, GPL, LGPL]
- FFmpeg [GNU LGPL]
- JWindows [GNU LGPL]
- Loris [GNU GPL]
- NTL [GNU GPL]
- Toolbar2000 [GNU GPL]
Link&References
Open Source for Windows...
- http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
- WinLibre
- http://osdir.com
- thefreecountry.com
- GNUWin II
- Public32.com
- http://www.jairlie.com/oss/
- Freshmeat.net
- BSTC Free Software Catalogue
- Thomas Guettler's page
- DerFisch.de
- GnuWin32
- Tigris.org
- TheOpenCD
- LibreOfficeCD4win
- GNU Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS and Compatible Systems
- Open Source Software CD
- Abariasoft
- My Open Source
- OS-Infoguide