awesome-oss

A list of open source projects with links to contribute or donate.

This list is a work in progress. I'm sure I'm missing many great projects. Feel free to send a pull request (just make sure it has a contribution/donation/both link)!

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Audio Editors
Audio Players
Documents
Developer Tools
Email
Foundations
FTP Clients
Graphics
Multimedia
Networking
OS/Distributions
Other
Password Managers
Social
Text Editors
Video Software
Web Browsers

Audio Editors

Audacity - cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing

Audio Players

Clementine - modern music player and library organizer
MPD - free and open music player server
OooPlayer - Lightweight music player for Windows
Rhythmbox - integrated music management application

Documents

Etherpad - web-based collaborative real-time editor
Evince - document viewer for multiple document formats
LibreOffice - office suite
Sumatra PDF - free and open-source document viewer

Developer Tools

Ansible - radically simple IT automation platform
ConEmu - free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows
Flutter - mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android
Fossil - simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system
Git - distributed version control system
GitLab - web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
Mosh - remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
Node-RED - programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways
PuTTy - free and open-source terminal emulator
Rancher - a complete container management platform
VirtualBox - free and open-source hypervisor

Email

Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems
Mail-in-a-box - one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server
Mailu - simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images
Mutt - text-based mail client for Unix operating systems
NeoMutt - command line mail reader

Foundations/Organizations

Apache Software Foundation - non-profit corporation to support Apache software project
Blender Foundation - nonprofit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D content-creation program
The Document Foundation - non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software
Django Software Foundation - non-profit organization to promote, support, and advance the Django Web framework
Eclipse Foundation not-for-profit corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse
Electronic Frontier Foundation - international non-profit digital rights group
Free Software Foundation - non-profit organization to support the free software movement
GNOME Foundation - non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts in the GNOME project
Internet Archive - non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 306 billion archived web pages
JS Foundation - supports some of the most important projects in the JavaScript ecosystem
KDE e.V. - non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities
Mozilla Foundation - non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project
Open Source Initiative - non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software
Open Whisper Systems - organization that focuses on the development of the Signal Protocol
OpenBSD Foundation - non-for-profit corporation, supporting OpenBSD and related projects
OpenStreetMap Foundation - not-for-profit company which supports the OpenStreetMap project
Perl Foundation - non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Perl through discussion, collaboration, design, and code
Python Software Foundation - non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language
Ruby Central - non-profit organization dedicated to support and advocacy for the Ruby programming language
Software Freedom Conservancy - not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects
Tor Project - not-for-profit organization that is responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network
VideoLAN - non-profit organization that develops and promotes open-source multimedia solutions
Wikimedia Foundation - a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge
X.Org Foundation - non-profit corporation chartered to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack

FTP Clients

Cyberduck - client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage
FileZilla - cross-platform FTP application
WinSCP - SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client for Microsoft Windows

Graphics

Blender - 3D Creation Software
Caesium Image Compressor - advanced compression tool for photos and images (JPG, PNG, GIF)
GIMP - raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks
ImageMagick - software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files
Inkscape - vector graphics editor
Krita - raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and animation purpose
LibreCAD - Computer-aided design application for 2D design
Pinta - program for drawing and image editing

Multimedia

Kodi - media player software application
Media Player Classic - light-weight media player for Windows
MPlayer - media player software
SMPlayer - cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer
VLC - cross-platform multimedia player and framework

Networking

Apache - cross-platform web server software
FreeNAS - Network Attached Storage software
LEDE Project - fork of OpenWRT
Let's Encrypt - free, automated, and open Certificate Authority
Nextcloud - self-hosted file sync and share and communication app platform
Nginx - HTTP and mail proxy server
Nmap - Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool
OpenNIC - user owned and controlled Network Information Center; alternative DNS network
OpenSSH - a suite of security-related network-level utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol
OpenWRT - project for embedded operating system based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic
ownCloud - self-hosted file sync and share app platform
Remmina - feature rich Remote Desktop Application
sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
Syncthing - peer-to-peer file synchronization
Tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
WireGuard - fast, modern and secure VPN tunnel
Wireshark - packet analyzer

OS/Distributions

Android-X86 - an unofficial initiative to port Google's Android mobile operating system to run on devices powered by AMD and Intel x86 processors
Arch Linux - a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution
CentOS - a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source
Debian - a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software
Fedora - a Linux distriibution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat
FreeBSD - free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution
Kubuntu - an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop
LineageOS - successor to the popular CyanogenMod ROM
Linux - an operating system kernel released by Linus Torvalds
Linux Mint - a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu
NixOS - Purely Functional Linux Distribution
OpenBSD - Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution
openSUSE - a Linux-based project and distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies
postmarketOS - a Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones
Slackware - The oldest maintained Linux distribution geared towards power and stability
Ubuntu Linux - a Linux distribution based on the Debian architecture
Xubuntu - an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the XFCE desktop environment

Other

AWStats - free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically
Common Voice - open and publicly available dataset of voices
FreedomBox - a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications
GnuPG - encrypt and sign data and communication
Huginn - a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online
MediaWiki - wiki software
MyCroft - Voice Assistant
OpenSSL - project that provides a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for TLS & SSL
OpenStreetMap - collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world
Radicale - CalDAV and CardDAV Server
Stockfish Chess - UCI chess engine
VeraCrypt - disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
Yacy - P2P Search Engine
ZoneMinder - state-of-the-art video surveillance software system

Password Managers

Bitwarden - password manager
KeePass - password manager
KeeWeb - cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
Password Safe - password manager

Social

Mastodon - social network server
Matrix - open network for secure, decentralized communication
Pidgin - a universal instant messaging (IM) program
HexChat - IRC client based on XChat
Rocket.Chat - the ultimate webchat platform
Talk - alternative to Disqus
WeeChat - fast, light and extensible chat client

Text Editors

Atom - a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron,
Code::Blocks - cross-platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++
Emacs (GNU) - extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
Kate Editor - a text editor developed by the KDE free software community
Lime Text - API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text
Nano - a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface
Vim - a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi
Visual Studio Code - a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications

Video Software

Avidemux - video editing program designed for video editing and video processing
HandBrake - a GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
KdenLive - a video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt
Open Broadcaster Software - streaming and recording program maintained by the OBS Project
OpenShot Video Editor - a video editor for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows
VirtualDub - free video tool for basic editing and encoding, including batch processing, mainly geared to AVI files

Web Browsers

Chromium - an open-source web browser project started by Google
Midori - A lightweight browser using the WebKit rendering engine
Mozilla Firefox - web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
NetSurf - web browser which uses its own layout engine
PaleMoon - web browser with an emphasis on customizability
QupZilla - a lightweight multiplatform web browser written in Qt Framework and using its web rendering engine QtWebEngine
qutebrowser - a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
SeaMonkey - Internet suite
Tor Browser - a version of Mozilla Firefox that has been modified by the Tor Project for enhanced security and privacy
Uzbl - a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy

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