13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You

Published on November 27, 2008

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Today, we are going to say big Thank You to everyone who supports us, appreciate us, love us and always be there for us when we need them. So, how can we forget those that makes our online life easier and did the tremendous work for us. They delivered us those applications/software that help us to get the routine work done for our daily use. There are many that we can not count and list exactly but we are trying to make a list of 13 Most Essential Open Source Apps That You Probably Like To Say Thank You. And Yes! Happy Thanksgiving…

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Downloadable Web-Based Applications

WordPress As An Open Source Fastest Growing And Damanding Blogging System

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

phpBB As The Most Widely Used Open Source Forum Solution

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

Drupal As An Powerful And Open Source Content Management Platform

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

Mindquarry DO As A Free And Open Source Application for Team Collaboration

Mindquarry DO is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Mindquarry runs as a web application with an optional desktop client for Windows, Linux and Mac OS that allows for desktop synchronization and offline work. As a result, you are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever you are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within your team.

PrestaShop As An Open Source Professional e-Commerce Shopping Cart Software

The PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers.

jobberBase As The Simple, Free And Open Source Job Board Software

jobberBase is a great open source job board software for anyone. You can get online your job posting website with jobberBase. It’s easy to install and configure to start your job board.

ModSecurity As An Open Source Web Application Firewall

ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can work either embedded or as a reverse proxy. It provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. It is also an open source project that aims to make the web application firewall technology available to everyone.

Downloadable Desktop Applications

OpenOffice As The Free and Open Office Productivity Suite

OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Mozilla Firefox As An Open Source Faster, Safer And Smarter Web Browser

Firefox 3 sets the pace with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity. View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.

ClamWin As An Open Source Antivirus program for Microsoft Platform

ClamWin Free Antivirus comes with an easy installer and open source code. You may download and use it absolutely free of charge. It has High detection rates for viruses and spyware, Scanning Scheduler, Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database etc

Gimp As An Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Ubuntu As A Community Developed, Linux-Based Operating System

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

Wine As An Open Source Virtual PC

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.

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Comments

Comment by Danh ba web 2.0 on November 27, 2008 @ 8:06 pm

Great list
Your collection are very popular and useful. I liked Wordpress for my blog and firefox for my browser !
Good luck !

Comment by Jason Seed on November 27, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

I would have to add in Subversion, many of these apps would have been written using it for there source code. We have over 60,000 developers on our hosted version today.

Comment by gonzague gonzales on November 28, 2008 @ 5:48 am

You are stupid: every body already use these and you owe me 30 seconds of my life: next time you want people to click your ads, just make a 100-top list, not a lame 13-top one.

I hope you choke on a pretzel!

Comment by Chanux on November 28, 2008 @ 10:19 am

One should use winpooch with clamwin antivirus.

http://look.fo/winpooch

Comment by Cover on November 29, 2008 @ 7:35 am

Dont forget about Truecrypt.

Comment by Etek on December 1, 2008 @ 12:03 am

there also Millions that thanks the blender foundation for the feature full, cutting edge free 3D software, named blender…
http://www.blender.org, check it out!

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How about google chrome?

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