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Android
operating system created by Google for use on mobile devices
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was launched in 2008 for Microsoft Windows and was built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, where it is currently the default browser. The browser is also the main component of ChromeOS, on which it serves as the platform for web applications.
Chromium
free and open-source cross-platform web browser
Windows Server 2008
version of the Windows Server line of server operating systems, based on Windows Vista and released in 2008
OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris () is a discontinued open-source computer operating system for SPARC and x86 based systems, created by Sun Microsystems and based on Solaris. Its development began in the mid 2000s and ended in 2010.
Red Star OS
North Korean Linux distribution
V8
open-source JavaScript engine developed by Google
Q1775686
open source chess engine
Q283827
ext4 (fourth extended filesystem) is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.
Q747793
e-book management and editing software
Google Map Maker
colaborar
Q124514
game engine
Linux-libre
According to the Free Software Foundation Latin America, Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated code, or code released under proprietary licenses. In the Linux kernel, those types of code are mostly used for proprietary firmware images. While generally redistributable, they do not give the user the freedom to audit, modify, or, consequently, redistribute their modified versions. The GNU Project keeps Linux-libre in synchronization with the mainline Linux kernel.
Q16927834
second major release of iOS by Apple Inc.
KDE Software Compilation 4
former umbrella term by KDE for the Plasma 4.x desktop environment bundled with an associated range of applications produced by KDE
Proxmox Virtual Environment
Linux distribution for server virtualization
Viva Engage
enterprise social networking service
Q1050182
web browser based on Chromium
Apache Cassandra
Free and open-source, distributed, wide column store, NoSQL database management system.
identi.ca
identi.ca is a free and open-source social networking and blogging service based on the pump.io software, using the Activity Streams protocol. Identi.ca stopped accepting new registrations in 2013, but continues to operate alongside several other pump.io-based hosts provided by E14N which continue to accept new registrations.
Adobe AIR
cross-platform run-time system for building Rich Internet applications (RIA)
Microsoft Small Basic
programming language dialect and development environment
Q1182754
Defraggler is a freemium defragmentation utility developed by Piriform Software, which can defragment individual files or groups of files on computer memory systems. Defraggler runs on Microsoft Windows; it has support for all versions since Windows XP. It includes support for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems.
X Pro
X Pro (formerly known as TweetDeck) is a paid proprietary social media dashboard for management of X accounts. Originally an independent app, TweetDeck was subsequently acquired by Twitter, Inc. and integrated into Twitter's interface. It had long ranked as one of the most popular Twitter clients by percentage of tweets posted, alongside the official Twitter web client and the official apps for iPhone and Android.
JDownloader
JDownloader is a donationware download manager, written in Java, which allows automatic download of groups of files from one-click hosting sites. JDownloader supports the use of premium accounts. Some parts of the code are open-source. As a popular software tool used in Europe, in December 2009 the program's website was in the top 1000 visited websites of Spain. German online magazine Chip.de designated it "newcomer of the year" in 2009, after it ranked among the top 50 most downloaded applications, with over half a million downloads in a year.
Entity Framework
object-relational mapping framework for ADO.NET
LastPass
LastPass is a password manager application. The standard version of LastPass comes with a web interface, but also includes a browser extension, an app and support for bookmarklets.
Nim
programming language
Joli OS
Linux distribution
Euphoria
game animation engine
GNS3
network software emulator
Omeka
Omeka (also known as Omeka Classic) is a free, open-source content management system for online digital collections. As a web application, it allows users to publish and exhibit cultural heritage objects, and extend its functionality with themes and plugins. A lightweight solution in comparison to traditional institutional repository software like DSpace and Fedora, Omeka has a focus on display and uses an unqualified Dublin Core metadata standard.
Kasane Teto
singing voice synthesizer software
Utau
UTAU is a Japanese singing synthesizer application created by Ameya/Ayame (). This program is similar to the VOCALOID software, with the difference being it is shareware instead of under a third party licensing.
PureOS
PureOS is a Linux distribution focusing on privacy and security, using the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktop environment. It is maintained by Purism for use in the company's Librem laptop computers as well as the Librem 5 and Liberty Phone smartphones.
Universe Sandbox
interactive space and gravity simulator video game
Musix GNU/Linux
Linux distribution
WorldWide Telescope
astronomy software
Tryton
Tryton is a three-tier high-level general purpose computer application platform on top of which is built an enterprise resource planning (ERP) business solution through a set of Tryton modules. The three-tier architecture consists of the Tryton client, the Tryton server and the database management system (mainly PostgreSQL).
I Am Rich
iOS application
HAMMER
file system from DragonFly BSD
Pharo
Pharo is a cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime system. It is based on the OpenSmalltalk virtual machine (VM) named Cog, which evaluates a dynamic, reflective, and object-oriented programming language with a syntax closely resembling Smalltalk-80. It is free and open-source software, released under a mix of MIT, and Apache 2 licenses.
Free Studio
software application
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac
productivity software
Q4925710
BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner, privacy manager, and computer system optimizer. The BleachBit source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
ERPNext
ERPNext is a free and open-source integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software developed by an Indian software company Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. It is built on the MariaDB database system using Frappe, a Python based server-side framework.
Q1578279
WinCDEmu is an open-source utility for mounting disk image files in Microsoft Windows. It installs a Windows device driver which allows a user to access an image of a CD or DVD as if it were a physical drive. WinCDEmu supports ISO, CUE/BIN, CCD/IMG, NRG, MDS/MDF and RAW formats.
Wuala
Wuala was a secure online file storage, file synchronization, versioning and backup service originally developed and run by Caleido Inc. It is now part of LaCie, which is in turn owned by Seagate Technology. The service stores files in data centres that are provided by Wuala in multiple European countries (France, Germany, Switzerland). An earlier version also supported distributed storage on other users' machines, however this feature has been dropped. On 17 August 2015 Wuala announced that it was discontinuing its service and that all stored data would be deleted on 15 November 2015. Wuala r
Semrush
Semrush Holdings, Inc. is an American public company that has a SaaS platform known as Semrush. The platform is used for keyword research, competitive analysis, site audits, backlink tracking, domain authority tracking, and online visibility insights. The keyword research tool provides various data points on each keyword. The platform also collects information about online keywords gathered from Google and Bing search engines. It was released by Boston-based company Semrush Inc, founded by Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitri Melnikov.
FCEUX
FCEUX is an open-source Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer Disk System emulator. It is a merger of various forks of FCE Ultra.
Tweetie
Tweetie was a client for the social networking service Twitter. There was a mobile version that ran on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and a desktop version ran on Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion (respectively 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7).
Chandler
personal information management software
PhyreEngine
PhyreEngine is a license-only free to use game engine from Sony Interactive Entertainment, compatible with PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation VR, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows (for OpenGL and DirectX 11), Google Android and Apple iOS. PhyreEngine has been adopted by several game studios and has been used in over 200 published titles.
NaCl
cryptography library
Smack
Linux kernel security module
Nintendo DSi system software
operating system
SeaBIOS
SeaBIOS is an open-source implementation of an x86 BIOS, serving as a freely available firmware for x86 systems. Aiming for compatibility, it supports standard BIOS features and calling interfaces that are implemented by a typical proprietary x86 BIOS. SeaBIOS can either run on bare hardware as a coreboot payload, or can be used directly in emulators such as QEMU and Bochs.
Duplicati
Duplicati is an open-source backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed remote backups of local files on cloud storage services and remote file servers. Duplicati supports not only various online backup services like OneDrive, Amazon S3, Backblaze, Rackspace Cloud Files, Tahoe LAFS, and Google Drive, but also any servers that support SSH/SFTP, WebDAV, or FTP.
GSON
Gson, or Google Gson, is an open-source Java library that serializes Java objects to JSON (and deserializes them back to Java).
STIX Fonts
free typeface with comprehensive coverage of mathematical symbols