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KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that enable collaborative work on its projects. Its products include the KDE Plasma graphical shell, KDE Frameworks, and the KDE Gear range of applications including Kate, digiKam, and Krita. Many KDE applications are cross-platform and can run on Unix and Unix-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows. KDE is legally represented by KDE e.V. based in Germany, which also owns the KDE trademarks and funds the project.
OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD in 1995 by forking NetBSD 1.0. The OpenBSD project emphasizes portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security, and integrated cryptography.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL ( ), also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. PostgreSQL features transactions with atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (ACID) properties, automatically updatable views, materialized views, triggers, foreign keys, and stored procedures. It is supported on all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD, and handles a range of workloads from single machines to data warehouses, data lakes, or web services with many concurrent users.
ICQ
ICQ was a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) and VoIP client founded in June 1996 by Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir, Arik Vardi, and Arik's father, Yossi Vardi. The name ICQ derives from the English phrase "I Seek You". Originally developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis in 1996, the client was bought by AOL in 1998, and then by Mail.Ru Group (now VK) in 2010.
Windows NT 4.0
pre-emptive, graphical operating system by Microsoft
Adobe Flash Player
deprecated browser extension software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio
Windows Embedded Compact
operating system subfamily by Microsoft
Microsoft FrontPage
discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and Web site administration tool
Q223653
calendaring and mail server developed by Microsoft that runs exclusively on the Microsoft Windows Server product line
LilyPond
LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.
Task Manager
task manager application included with the Windows NT family of operating systems
Java platform
set of several computer software products and specifications
Wget
GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. Its name derives from "World Wide Web" and "get", a HTTP request method. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
Outlook Express
Microsoft e-mail client software
Adobe Animate
interactive multimedia content authoring app
AROS Research Operating System
operating system
YaST
YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) is a Linux operating system setup and configuration tool.
Inferno
distributed operating system based on ideas and technology from Plan 9
Q181202
game engine developed by id Software
rsync
rsync (remote sync) is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers by comparing the modification times and sizes of files. It is commonly found on Unix-like operating systems and is under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
W3C Amaya
web browser and web editor
cPanel
cPanel is a web hosting control panel software developed by cPanel, L.L.C. It provides a graphical interface (GUI) and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site for the website owner or "end user". It enables administration through a standard web browser using a three-tier structure. While cPanel is limited to managing a single hosting account, cPanel & WHM allow the administration of the entire server.
Netwide Assembler
assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture
Squeak
Squeak is an object-oriented, class-based, and reflective programming language. It was derived from Smalltalk-80 by a group that included some of Smalltalk-80's original developers, initially at Apple Computer, then at Walt Disney Imagineering, where it was intended for use in internal Disney projects. The group later was supported by HP Labs and SAP.
bzip2
bzip2 is a file format and a file compression program. The program uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm to compress and decompress a single file using the bzip2 file format. libbzip2 is a lossless data compression software library used by the bzip2 program.
Houdini
3D graphic software
Office Assistant
intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character
Arachne
web browser
Cinelerra
thumb|400px|Cinelerra 2.1 being used to edit footage in a video project Cinelerra is a video editing and track-based digital compositing program (an NLE, Non-Linear Editor) designed for Linux. It is a free software distributed under the open source GNU General Public License. In addition to editing, it supports advanced composition operations such as keying and mattes, including a title generator, many effects to edit video and audio, keyframe automation, and many other professional functions depending on the variant. It processes audio in 64 floating-point form. Video is processed in RGBA or
Adobe GoLive
WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site management application
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3
web browser of Microsoft
MkLinux
MkLinux (Microkernel Linux) is a discontinued open-source experimental operating system for PowerPC Macintosh computers. It was launched in 1995 as a collaboration between the Open Software Foundation (OSF) and Apple Computer, as a critical pivot in Apple's technical and social history. MkLinux became Apple's first official free and open-source software community project, and the debut of Linux on the first Power Macintosh.
Internet Explorer for Mac OS X
web browser for Apple computers developed by Microsoft from 1996 to 2003
FAR Manager
file and archive manager for Microsoft Windows
ReBirth RB-338
Software synthesizer
Voyager
web browser for Amiga
Cyberdog
Cyberdog is a discontinued OpenDoc-based Internet suite of applications, developed by Apple Computer for the Mac OS line of operating systems. It was introduced as a beta in February 1996 and abandoned in March 1997. The last version, Cyberdog 2.0, was released on April 28, 1997. It worked with later versions of System 7 as well as the Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 operating systems.
AWeb
AWeb is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers. Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3.9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source.
Etoys
programming language
IBrowse
IBrowse is a MUI-based web browser for the Amiga range of computers and was a rewritten follow-on to Amiga Mosaic, one of the first web browsers for the Amiga Computer. IBrowse was originally developed for the now-defunct company Omnipresence. The original author has since continued development of IBrowse.
Macromedia HomeSite
HTML editor owned by Adobe Systems.
Microsoft Comic Chat
graphic IRC client by Microsoft
Webots
Webots is a free and open-source 3D robot simulator used in industry, education and research.
Arachnophilia
Arachnophilia is a source code editor written in Java by Paul Lutus. It is the successor to another HTML editor, WebThing. The name Arachnophilia comes from the term meaning "love of spiders", a metaphor for the task of building on the World Wide Web.
CuteFTP
CuteFTP is a series of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client applications distributed and supported since 1996 by GlobalSCAPE, who later bought the rights to the software. Both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface were made for both home and professional use.
Q7607033
emulator for the Atari 2600 game console
Quake Army Knife
3D asset developing program
Internet Explorer Administration Kit
Microsoft Internet Explorer management program