IDA 101

A selection of 101 typical OSS solutions (out of several thousands of OSS projects). © European Communities 2001

A2ps

a2ps formats files for printing on a PostScript printer.

AbiWord

Open source word processor.

AIDE

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment. Free replacement for Tripwire(tm). It does the same things are Tripwire(tm) and more.

Alliance

Complete set of CAD tools for the specification, design and validation of digital VLSI circuits.

Amanda

Backup utility.

Apache

Free HTTP (Web) server which is used by over 50% of all web servers worldwide.

Balsa

Balsa is the official GNOME mail client.

Bash

The Bourne Again Shell. It's compatible with the Unix `sh' and offers many extensions found in `csh' and `ksh'.

Bayonne

Multi-line voice telephony server.

Bind

BIND "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon", and is the Internet de-facto standard program for turning host names into IP addresses.

Bison

General-purpose parser generator.

BSD operating systems

FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system.

C Library

The GNU C library is used as the C library in the GNU system and most newer systems with the Linux kernel.

CAPA

Computer Aided Personal Approach. Network system for learning, teaching, assessment and administration.

CVS

A version control system keeps a history of the changes made to a set of files.

DDD

DDD is a graphical front-end for GDB and other command-line debuggers.

Diald

Diald is an intelligent link management tool originally named for its ability to control dial-on-demand network connections.

Dosemu

DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and is a linux application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs - including some

Electric

Sophisticated electrical CAD system that can handle many forms of circuit design.

Emacs

Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

Enhydra

Enhydra is the first and leading Open Source Java/XML application server.

Flex

Lexical analyser generator.

FreePascal

Free software implementation of the Pascal language.

GCC

Free compiler collection for C, C++, Fortran, Objective C and other languages.

gdb

Source-level debugger for C, C++ and Fortran.

gEDA

Collection of tools that include a schematic capture tool, a netlister, PCB tool, and a verilog compiler/simulator. gEDA stands

gforth

Fast, portable implementation of the ANS Forth language.

gFTP

gFTP is a free multithreaded ftp client for UNIX based machines running X.

Ggradebook

Ggradebook is the fully-featured GNU gradebook; an application for tracking student grades for teachers.

Ghostscript

Interpreter for the Postscript and PDF graphics languages.

Ghostview

Ghostview is an X11 user interface for Ghostscript, allowing you to view and navigate PostScript files.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program. Application of the same level as Photoshop.

GNOME

The GNOME project has built a complete free and easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application

GNU-AWACS

Advanced Monitoring And Control Structure.

Gnucomm

Free software telecommunication servers and client project.

GNUMed

Comprehensive and robust software package for paperless medical practice (project).

Gnumeric

The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environmen

GnuPG

GnuPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard and is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data

Gnuplot

Interactive function plotting utility.

GNU-Smalltalk

GNU implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.

grep

Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern.

GRG

GNU Report Generator.

Groff

Groff (GNU Troff) is a document processor which reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.

GTK+

GUI toolkit for the X Window System.

gzip

GNU's program for compressing and decompressing files.

ht://Dig

Complete world wide web indexing and searching system.

HylaFAX

HylaFAX is used for sending and receiving facsimiles as well as for sending alpha-numeric pages.

Interbase

Cross-platform, structured query language (SQL) relational database management system (RDMS).

Interchange

Open source e-commerce platform

Ipchains

Firewalling tool.

Ispell

Interactive spell checker that suggests `near misses' to replace unrecognized words.

JOnAS

Enterprise Java bean server (from Bullsoft)

Kaffe

Kaffe is a cleanroom, open source implementation of a Java virtual machine and class libraries.

KDE

KDE 2.0 is a graphical interface for Linux

Kdevelop

The KDevelop-Project was raised to build up an easy to use C/C++ IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment) for Unix.

Koffice

Integrated Office suite

LaTeX

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation

Linux

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the wo

Linuxconf

Linuxconf is a sophisticated administration system for the Linux operating system. In many ways, Linuxconf is different from ot

Lynx

Text-only Web browser.

LyX

Document processor.

Mailman

Software to help manage email discussion lists.

make

Source coed project manager that automatically determines which pieces of a large program need to be recompiled, and issues com

Mesa

Free implementation of OpenGL.

Midnight Commander

user friendly and colorful Unix file manager and shell, useful to novice and guru alike.

Mozilla

Mozilla is a cousin to Netscape Communicator internet application suite that is being developed by the Free Software Community

MRTG

Tool to monitor the traffic load of network-links.

mtools

Set of public domain programs to allow Unix systems to read, write, and manipulate files on a DOS file system (typically a disk

MySQL

Relational Database.

omniORB

omniORB is a robust, high-performance, multi-threaded CORBA 2 ORB (Object Request Broker).

Open Motif

Motif is the leading user interface for the UNIX® based operating system.

OpenLDAP

OpenLDAP is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

OpenSSL

Open source toolkit to implement a Secure Socket Layer

Perl

Perl is an interpreted high-level programming language.

PHP

PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.

PostgreSQL

Sophisticated Object-Relational DBMS, supporting almost all SQL constructs.

Python

Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

QT

C++ object oriented toolkit, used to create GUI applications

Quanta+

Quanta Plus is an HTML editor.

RCS

RCS is used for version control and management of software projects.

Samba

Free SMB and CIFS client and server for unix and other operating systems.

SANE

Application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware.

Satan

Tool to help systems administrators. It recognizes several common networking-related security problems, and reports

Sendmail

Mail Server.

Sketch

Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator.

SmallEiffel

Complete, small, very fast Eiffel compiler.

Squid

Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache.

StarOffice

Complete GPL Office Suite, includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database and other utilities.

tar

File archiver.

Teacup

CGI application designed to provide helpdesk problem report management for small to medium size organizations.

Webmin

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration on Unix.

wget

Non-interactively retrieves files from the WWW using HTTP and FTP.

Wine

Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix.

wxWindows

cross-platform GUI development framework.

Xanim

Video and Audio player

X-CD-Roast

X-CD-Roast tries to be the most user friendly CD-burning software ever. It allows even the unexperienced user to create or copy

XFree86

Open Source version of X Window (graphical environment).

XFS

Journaling filesystem for the Linux kernel.

Xlogmaster

X11 program that does comfortable and fast monitoring of all logfiles and every device that allows its status being read.

Xmovie

Multimedia viewer

zope

Open Source web application server

Study into the use of open source software in the public sector

The OSS Fact sheet

An assessment of availability and potential of OSS-based solutions, by software category, and a selection of about 100 typical OSS solutions (out of several thousands of OSS projects).

Annex: OSS Alphabetical list and Software identification

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