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Today we are listing here 11 Most Popular Open Source Softwares Of All Time in which most of them are cross-platform. You might not be able to enjoy all the features as commercial software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to purchase paid software.
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Firefox 3.5 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.
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. It has a powerful Site Manager and transfer queue and drag & drop support.
7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats.
FullSync is a universal file synchronization and backup tool which is highly customizable and expandable. It is especially for developers, but the basic functionality is easy enough for everyone.
Gimpshop is a hack made on top of the original Gimp project which changes all menues, dialogs, etc., in order to make them look as much as their counterparts in Photoshop. This makes users who are already familiar with the layout of Photoshop feel right at home in this open source application. Please note that all features in Photoshop in not available in Gimpshop, since it is based on the Gimp project and it’s feature set.
ClamWin is a free antivirus for Windows. It includes virus scanner, scheduler, virus database updates, context menu integration to MS Windows Explorer and Addin to MS Outlook. Also features easy setup program. Uses a well respected ClamAV scanning engine.
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.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment. This is based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.This is a cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, compatible with other VNC software.
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems. It includes tools for modeling – fast subdivision surface and polygon tools, multi-resolution mesh sculpting, metaballs, NURBS, vector fonts, and curves; uv mapping; shaders and texturing – both paint based and node based; ik and fk animation tools with rigging, constraints, skinning, morph targets, drivers, deformers, and modifiers; simulation tools including hard bodies, soft body, cloth, and fluids; and particle systems including hair. Blender has integrated rendering with both its native renderer and the raytracer Yafray as well supporting many external renderers; and python based scripting.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files, cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together etc.
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A strange list, and I wonder how you judge these to be the most popular of all time. Blender and Audacity sure, but Gimpshop and Clamwin? And what about the most prevalent back-end OS systems, such as Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which run most dynamic websites?
Thanks for the tips which as always are very interesting and useful, but it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that these are the most popular apps of all time.
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I personally tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small and efficient.
I think its quite a good list. These are probably the most common apps as used by most everyday people. I have used at least 70% of these apps myself.
Most popular open source software of all time? I think I’d have to go with Linux. If that doesn’t count for some reason, then Apache.
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Good attempt at a strong list! I think these type lists are relative to the users environment.
Would love to see a list for the non programmers…
Firefox
Google Docs
Meet me
Stuff like that.
Mike
There is a much more popular FOSS than GNU/Linux: eMule.
Also Azureus/Vuze is very popular and it is not in the list.
Personally, LAMPP has 4 of the most popular FOSS.
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@Kevin
Ubuntu is not software it’s a distribution (collection of software)
and Opera is NOT open source.
VLC definitely missing in that list.
Partially don’t agree with the list, but a few of the programs do belong in that list.
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“You might not be able to enjoy all the features as commercial software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to..” ???? ahh!?!!?? What are you saying?!?!?
That costly, shyttti propietary software is better because it cost???
You man. DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.
What a shame of article…
I don’t know how.. this propietaries softwares can be better than open source ones:
* Notepad vs Notepad++
* Explorer vs Firefox
* Paint vs gimp¿?
* What ever similar vs Filezilla (filezilla is the best
it can connect to SFTP where others(expensives) can’t even dream about it)
And those are only examples of the “supposed bests” which in my opinion are not the best… ahhh I didn’t needed to explain these part since I’m criticizing a rookie.
Good luck Windows boy
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I am using
- Firefox
- OpenOffice
- Notepad ++
Also add Google Chrome for Linux.
You must mention some popular music players too. You missed them big time.
Tahir
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I would say GIMP is more popular than GIMPshop!
@Michael Torbert, Wordpress is a web platform – I think we’d have to have another list of them together with Joomla, Gallery, Drupal, etc!
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@gatuus
Sure the open source stuff is better than some of the proprietary software out there. but not all of it…
you say notepad vs notepad++, what about textmate?
you say explorer vs firefox, what about safari?
you say paint vs gimp, what about photoshop cs4???
you say whatever vs filezilla, what about transmit?
and like the author of the article said, if you can’t afford photoshop, gimp will do the job nicely. if you can’t afford transmit, filezilla will do nicely, if you can’t afford the best of the best, chances are there’s an open source solution waiting to be found which will do the job better than the ones you CAN afford
hi
thanks i would like to add
37 Top Firefox Add-ons For Web Development
As with one or two of the commenters above –
Surely Apache and MySQL, which run half the bloody web??
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
(no direct reference for MySQL, it’s harder to measure)
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really nice post and come to know about one good open source software which im looking for long time is FullSync really thanks