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AbiWord is a free word processing program. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Works in Linux, Mac, PC

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain.

A menu-based commandline script that does standard conversions on image directories.

Linux distribution with a very strong community

Desktop based Flickr Organizer by Manish Rai Jain.
Organize, upload, and download photos all through a single interface.

Inspired by EtherPEG (though, not owning an Apple Macintosh, I've never actually seen it in operation), Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic.

The Edubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to schools, through its customised school environment.

EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. You can find links to source and binary releases below.

F-Spot is a full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop (http://www.gnome.org/).

F-Spot simplifies digital photography by providing intuitive tools to help you share, touch-up, find and organize your images.

Until now — and probably for a while in most heads — the GNU/Linux system at school has been perceived as a good replacement of other proprietary servers. However the server is probably the least important things in term of freedom in a school network

Seamlessly run Windows, Linux and other PC operating systems on your Intel-based Mac.

A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

A GNU/Linux distribution, that takes all the non-free blobs out of Ubuntu and makes it *really* free.

gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects. It stores tunnel configurations in a simple XML format. The tunnels (local, remote and dynamic) can be managed and individually started/stopped through one simple interface.

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) enables people to securely exchange messages and to secure files with both privacy and strong authentication. GnuPG is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software.

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs. See the gallery for some sample layouts. It also has web and interactive graphical interfaces, and auxiliary tools, libraries, and language bindings.

IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts.

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.

Knoppix is a computer operating system which runs entirely from a CD or DVD drive, without performing an installation process or using the hard drive. Knoppix is a Debian based GNU/Linux distribution LiveCD, developed by GNU/Linux consultant Klaus Knopper

KDE default single pane file manager and web browser with KDE desktop integration

GNU/Linux operating system adapted for translators. Linguas OS is a remaster of PCFluxboxOS built for translators.

Mailing list management software for Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

MadWifi - a Linux kernel device driver for Wireless LAN chipsets from Atheros.

Miradi is a user-friendly software program that allows nature conservation projects to effectively implement the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

Open source media center.

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts.

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system

OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls

OrangeHRM is an open source Human Resource Management (HRM) solution for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). It can however also be adapted to the needs of NGOs.

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OrangeHRM is developed on PHP, MySQL and Apache HTTP Server and can be downloaded to use on both the Linux operating system and Microsoft Windows.

PC-BSD is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD similar to DesktopBSD.

PHLAK was created to become the only tool security professionals would need to perform security analysis, penetration testing, forensics, and security auditing

Pyramid is a small but flexible Linux distribution designed for advanced wireless networking projects. Pyramid Linux is the successor to Pebble Linux originally developed by Terry Schmidt at NYCWireless. If you are looking for a small powerful distro for wireless applications we suggest you try it out.

It uses the Ubuntu Linux Live CD as a base, and then allows customization of boot screens , gnome settings, and software.

RRD is the acronym for Round Robin Database. It is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average).

Free email server software with web-based interface for users and administrators.

Easy to install & maintain Linux distro targetting small offices with no professional IT staff

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on Unix and Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 is the serious choice for business. It is the only enterprise-grade Linux platform offering a complete solution for your mission-critical needs-from the desktop to the data center. When security, cost and reliability matter, companies choose SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell.

A collection of floppy-based diagnostic tools and recovery Linux distributions all consolidated on one bootable CD

Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.

User-friendly Linux distribution

VaultletSuite 2 Go is the first industrial strength privacy protecting software that's a snap to use, installs on your hard drive or your thumb/USB drive.

The VaultletSuite 2 Go uses Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption, and is the easiest way to protect and control your spam-free email, passwords and important files wherever you and USB drive may roam: from home to work and anywhere in between.

VaultletSuite 2 Go contains the following services:

VaultletMail: not only do you get get secure spam and phishing free email, but you can also control whether your messages are printed, archived, forwarded, and even how long they live before they vanish. Not only that but you can receive guaranteed receipts too!

PasswordValet: with one click you can edit and protect your valuable account and password information. You can store them on your USB drive or our server.

VaultletFiler: with one click you can protect the valuable files that you store on your USB drive. With that one click, you're protected from unintended exposure of your valuable information.

VaultletMail DropBox: Anyone can send you a secure message using the VaultletMail DropBox. All it takes is two clicks to send you a point-to-point encrypted email message: one click to start the secure editor applet, and another one to encrypt it and send it on its way to you.

SpecialDelivery: gives VaultletMail users the ability to send encrypted time and view constrained content to anyone in the world, regardless of which email system or client they use. This means that recipients of SpecialDelivery messages will benefit from your desire to protect and control your communications with them even if they don't have a VaultletMail account. VaultletSuite 2 Go: Your World, Secured. Anywhere

The VaultletSuite is available for free to individuals and for non-governmental,non-profit use.

New in v2.6: Not only does the VaultletSuite 2 Go now display itself in English, Español, Français, Русский, and العربية, but it also supports Right-to-Left rendering of فارسی and עברית!

Wireless card support utility for Linux that offers front end help with WPA, WEP encryption, along with the ability to hop from one network to the other with ease.

Ubuntu Linux for Old Machines