Open Source Software


Software
Software Type
Software Description
Office Software Suite
OpenOffice.org is a free office suite of applications available for many different operating systems including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, OpenVMS, IRIX and Mac OS X. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Web Browser
Konqueror is a file manager, web browser and file viewer, which was developed as part of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) by volunteers and runs on most Unix-like operating systems.



http://www.konqueror.org/

Email Client
KMail is the e-mail client of the KDE desktop environment.

It supports folders, filtering, viewing HTML mail, and international character sets. It can handle IMAP, dIMAP[1], POP3, and local mailboxes for incoming mail. It can send mail via SMTP or sendmail.

http://kontact.kde.org/kmail/

Instant Messaging Client
Gaim (to be renamed Pidgin in the next release) is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. Gaim is free software available under the GNU General Public License.



http://www.pidgin.im/

Image Editing Software
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor application with some support for vector graphics. The project was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now maintained by a group of volunteers

http://www.gimp.org/