Open Source Software

Open Source and free Software

Curated list of good software resources, which are open source or free (like in beer, not in speech)

Desktop Software

2d graphics

• http://www.inkscape.org,
• yEd freeware visio like with auto-layout (freeware only) http://www.yworks.com/de/products_yed_about.html
• http://www.getpaint.net/ (Windows only)
• Font design: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
• Jalbum html gallery software http://jalbum.net/
• Andreamosaic http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/ , render big pictures from thousands of small ones
• http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Panorama photo stitcher
• http://www.marzipano.net/ 360° viewer

3d graphics

• www.blender.org (also game engine)
• Assimp (3d model converter)
• Photogrammetry (create 3d model from multiple 2d pictures) https://alicevision.org/#meshroom (NVIDIA graphic card=CUDA required)

Business, Office, Banking, Resource planning

• Fakturama https://www.fakturama.info/
• http://de.openoffice.org and Office-Teamwork/Collaboration/Filesharing http://www.teamdrive.net/
• http://www.gnuaccounting.org
• Time tracker: Task coach z.B. von http://www.taskcoach.org, http://www.getklok.com/
• DTP: Scribus http://www.scribus.net
• Java fat client+java applet resource planner http://rapla.org/
• Hibiscus online banking http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus/
• Collaborative https://www.humhub.org/

PIM, Mindmaps, PDF and productivity

• Mind maps: Open Source Freemind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Freeware http://www.xmind.net/ . Online: http://www.mindmup.com
• Project management: http://www.ganttproject.biz
• DMS: http://www.steuertipps.de/lp/belegmanager
• Free PDF printer: http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator
• PDF helper tool (cut/merge PDFs pagewise): http://www.pdfsam.org
• PDF booklet/magazine creator http://pdfbooklet.sourceforge.net/
• taxbird, http://www.taxbird.de/, only USt and LSt.
• https://www.limbas.com/ web based DB access tool

Education

• VLC-based teacher/student PC remote control https://github.com/veyon or linux only http://www.epoptes.org/
• https://www.geogebra.org Open source interactive geography graphics

Internet / Networking

• Filezilla
• WinSCP
• Open source airdrop https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop / https://onedoes.github.io/snapdrop/

Games

• Frozen Bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
• Battle for wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/ strategy game
• http://padworld.myexp.de/ Netzwerk-Comic-Egoshooter
• http://openarena.ws/ Q3-based ego shooter
• 0ad http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/
• http://www.urbanterror.info/ Q3-basiertes Urban terror Counterstrike remake
• http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ Orbiter (Freeware only)
• http://www.wcsaga.com/downloads/files/releases.html Wing Commander Saga The Darkest Dawn (Freeware)
• https://www.minetest.net/ open source minecraft clone
• http://opensimulator.org/ open source second life clone

Site maintenance

• httrack http://www.httrack.com/ (download complete homepages)
• Xenu's link sleuth http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html (Linkchecker)
• http://linkchecker.sourceforge.net/ command line link checker
• HTTP (and other) performance benchmarking http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
• Page stats:
  • Apache Access logs: Jawstats http://www.jawstats.com
  • Apache Access logs: https://goaccess.io/
  • Piwik http://piwik.org/

Browser plugins

• Firebug https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
• Google Lighthouse https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/
• Web Developer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
• Venkman Javascript debugger with this tutorial: http://www.svendtofte.com/code/learning_venkman/
• Live http headers: analyze e.g. redirects
• Easy Xdebug: Xdebug-plugin
• firesheep: Session hijacking FireFox plugin

Development

There is also a list of open source libraries

• Planning, prototyping

  • Wireframing/Prototyping https://pencil.evolus.vn/
  • Wireframing HTML https://meetalva.io/

• IDEs, text editors, log browser

  • Conventional
    • Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/download
    • Eclipse https://eclipse.org/, Eclipse/PDT https://eclipse.org/pdt/ and PDT Extensions http://p2.pdt-extensions.org/
    • Windows filter huge files/editor https://github.com/RolandPheasant/TailBlazer/
    • (windows) Notepad++: open source text editor for windows http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
    • Atom text editor https://atom.io/
    • For web development Brackets source http://brackets.io/
    • CSVed, http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/ editor for comma separated values files
    • Collaborative Editor: http://gobby.0x539.de/trac/
  • online
    • https://eclipse.org/che/
    • Visual Studio Code server https://github.com/codercom/code-server

• API Testing

  • PAW (kommerziell): Mac REST API Client https://luckymarmot.com/paw
  • API test tool Postman https://www.getpostman.com Insomnia https://insomnia.rest/
  • SOAP UI, Tool zum Absetzen von SOAP-Anfragen http://sourceforge.net/projects/soapui/files/
  • Diffy (test different response on same http request) https://github.com/twitter/diffy
  • Oauth GUI client https://github.com/mitraman/OAuthTestClient

• Testing

  • PHPUnit/Selenium/PhantomJS
  • Codeception
  • Behat.org

• SCM/Diff

  • https://git-scm.com/
  • kdiff3 ''great tool'' to spot differences between two files or two directories (includes merge functionality) http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
  • Git changes visualisiert http://gource.io/
  • Gitup (mac only) http://gitup.co/

• Database

  • Heidisql Open-Source MySQL DB admin http://www.heidisql.com
  • Sequel Pro Opensource Heidi Alternative for Mac https://www.sequelpro.com/
  • DBeaver open source java based heidisql-alternative https://dbeaver.io/
  • java tool db refactoring/db versioning http://www.liquibase.org/ (windows)

• Documentation, Visualization and UML

  • Offline documentation: https://kapeli.com/dash für Mac und https://zealdocs.org für Win/Lin
  • ArgoUML, UML modelling http://argouml.tigris.org/ altenativ http://www.umlet.com
  • https://cruise.eecs.uottawa.ca/umple/ UML to source code
  • Regex visualization https://jex.im/regulex/
  • Sequence Diagrams https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/
  • Backus-Naur Normalization/Grammar https://bottlecaps.de/rr/ui

• Source code analysis

  • PHP Mess detector static source code analysis https://phpmd.org/

• App development

• Mobile App Development

  • PhoneGap / Cordova / Ionic https://ionicframework.com/
  • Titanium http://www.appcelerator.com/titanium/

• App Backends

  • https://parseplatform.org/ (hosting e.g. https://www.back4app.com/)

• Game development

  • great 2- and 3d game engine https://godotengine.org/
  • GDevelop 2d game engine https://gdevelop-app.com/
  • C# game engine (godot c# or) http://xenko.com/

• Browser tools

  • Browsersync responsive/mobile testing https://www.browsersync.io/
  • Visual Event bookmarklet to detect JQuery event handler http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Visual+Event+2

• LDAP Browser

  • Apache Directory Studio http://directory.apache.org/studio/
  • jxplorer https://sourceforge.net/projects/jxplorer/

• Virtual maschines: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (download the open source edition, linux), http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxwin32/, Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/ for dev servers

• Dependency Manager

  • https://getcomposer.org/ Composer for PHP
  • https://maven.apache.org/ Maven for Java
  • https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg VCPCK for C++

• Miscellaneous

  • itext RUPS, http://itextpdf.com/product/itext_rups, analyze structure of PDF-files
  • Translation application for .po files https://poedit.net/
  • https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier Desktopanwendung von webanwendung erstellen
  • Disassembler https://github.com/radareorg/cutter/
  • Elasticsearch https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/

Multimedia

• Video player: vlc, http://www.videolan.org
• (windows) XMedia Recode (more stable than media coder) http://www.xmedia-recode.de/download.html
• https://handbrake.fr/ another Video encoder/transcoder
• (windows) GUI media media coder http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
• (windows) primitive encoder: http://winff.org
• Video converter, supports webm: http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/
• Avidemux : simple video cut software http://avidemux.berlios.de/index.html
• http://www.opencastproject.org/matterhorn .
• Screen Recording freeware http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
• Opensource Webex Alternative http://openmeetings.apache.org/
• Open Broadcaster screencast streaming Software https://obsproject.com/
• Monaserver RTMP server http://www.monaserver.ovh/
• Youtube downloader https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html
• German public television download https://mediathekview.de

Password vaults (for teams)

• https://bitwarden.com/
• https://www.passwordstore.org/
• https://www.vaultproject.io/,
• http://www.vaultier.org/,
• https://www.passbolt.com/,
• https://padlock.io/,
• https://github.com/tildaslash/RatticWeb
• https://www.themooltipass.com/ ?
• https://teampass.net/

Security

• http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/ Application layer sniffing
• SSL Checker https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html
• Android freeware app/desktop http://www.fjsoft.at/de/
• John the ripper: a brute-force password cracker with a good dictionary http://www.openwall.com/john/
• Hashcat WPA cracker http://hashcat.net/hashcat/
• ZAProxy: Webscarab replacement A proxy which can intercept e.g. HTTP posts and inject malicious code, use for penetration tests https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/wiki/Downloads
• password recovery (windows only) http://www.oxid.it/cain.html
• password wordlist https://dazzlepod.com/site_media/txt/passwords.txt
• veracrypt formerly Truecrypt for encrypting files and volumes
• GPG/Enigmail for encrypted email communication: gpg4win.com, enigmail TB 64 bit outlook plugin https://github.com/dejavusecurity/OutlookPrivacyPlugin
• Keepass http://www.keepass.info/ password management and -generator. Server based: https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/ only web-client http://www.passwordsafe.de win server/clients only
• fwbuilder: Firewall-configuration utility http://www.fwbuilder.org/

Sound

• https://www.audacityteam.org/ Open Source Sound Editor
• Voicemeeter/banana (Donationware only): Good mixer for Windows https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm
• programming languages for music
  • http://overtone.github.io/
  • https://supercollider.github.io/

Communication

• https://www.thunderbird.net/ Email client
• https://matrix.org/ XMPP alternative chat protocol, e.g. http://riot.im for web chat, https://qtox.github.io/ looks like an alternative
• Web chat: http://www.phpfreechat.net Slack konkurrenten: http.//www.zulip.org , http://Mattermost.org, http://rocket.chat, http://getkandan.com/, https://github.com/keybase/client
• http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11 Dukto R6 LAN transfer files to multiple clients

Deployment management

• Package management http://www.opsi.org/
• Package management http://m23.sourceforge.net/ (Linux only),
• Package management https://wpkg.org/ (Windows only),
• linux automated installation fai-project.org,
• Windows updates offline installer https://www.wsusoffline.net/
• Setup package manager http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/

System Tools

• X Server: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
• linux system status https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Stacer
• Linux show system info on background https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky
• Linux watch file system changes IDS (intrusion detection) tripwire https://github.com/Tripwire/tripwire-open-source
• Identify file type http://mark0.net/soft-tridnet-e.html
• Encrypt directories https://cryptomator.org/
• Have multiple remote control RDP sessions simulaneously (unclear if covered by windows license) https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap
• Find files by name Everything https://www.voidtools.com/
• OSX install disc creator https://macdaddy.io/install-disk-creator/
• Open source disk partitioner http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
• local search engine http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/de/
• http://rundeck.org/ job scheduler with user mnt
• https://etcher.io/ ISO writer
• https://rufus.akeo.ie/ make usb sticks bootable (for windows)
• web console with ssh key management https://github.com/skavanagh/KeyBox
• sync setting files https://github.com/lra/mackup
• pandorafms.org
• do sth when a file is changed https://github.com/guard/guard
• http://www.freenas.org/
• git-annex Git sync application https://git-annex.branchable.com/
• File synchronization http://synkron.sourceforge.net/
• Bundle download and installer https://ninite.com/
• Synergy, software KM switch http://synergy-foss.org/
• peer-to-peer file sync https://syncthing.net/
• Boot repair iso http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/
• WinAudit, Hardware components list/inventory https://winaudit.codeplex.com/
• (windows) deleted file recovery http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download (alternative http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_DE und https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk)
• (windows) Disk space overview: WinDirStat http://windirstat.info/ (linux kdirstat)
• duplicity backup, duplicaty windows version http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/
• DVDisaster, dvd/bd archival (additional CRC), http://dvdisaster.net/
• W10 privacy https://www.winprivacy.de/deutsch-start/download/
• unetbootin, bootable USB installer
• rufus, bootable USB installer https://rufus.akeo.ie/
• Autotext http://lifehacker.com/238306/lifehacker-code-texter-windows
• Disk2vhd create virtual machine from physical one, Windows, Freeware only
• Deamon Tools, emulate optical drives http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon
• Windows-Installation on USB-Stick http://wudt.codeplex.com/
• IMDisk Windows Open Source Ramdisk http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk
• Open Source Render Management http://cgru.info/afanasy/afanasy
• LAN Speed test lite http://totusoft.com/lanspeed1/
• Kali linux (formerly backtrack) https://www.kali.org/
• System status http://cockpit-project.org/
• Smart reporter https://www.corecode.io/smartreporter_lite/index.html
• "burn" boot disks http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
• Data rescue (hard discs): dd_rescue
• hex editor (mac) http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
• Hotkeys (Windows) https://www.autohotkey.com/
• Shell (Windows) https://cmder.net/
• Benchmark: sysbench, e.g. mysql benchmark using sysbench /usr/share/sysbench/oltp_read_write.lua --threads=4 --db-driver=mysql --mysql_host=10.2.181.5 --mysql-user=<db user> --mysql-password=<db pwd> --mysql-port=3306 --tables=10 --table-size=1000 prepare, then ...run . DB Benchmark also https://github.com/sj14/dbbench

Server based

BI and Big data (server based)

• Open Source BI http://community.pentaho.com/ Kettle automated and conditional conversion
• Mysql-spalten/memorybasierte database https://www.infobright.org/
• MariaDB Columstore https://mariadb.com/de/node/819
• in memory column based postgres https://www.citusdata.com/product/community
• MySQL profiler https://www.jetprofiler.com/, mysql-cluster http://galeracluster.com/
• MySQL DataLoader-Tool/Migration von MS SQL/Synchronisation of databases http://www.dbload.com/
• MySQL Change Data Capture (CDC) https://github.com/whitesock/open-replicator

GIS (server based)

• coordinate database for german ZIP codes http://opengeodb.giswiki.org/wiki/OpenGeoDB ( s.a. http://www.kompf.de/gps/distcalc.html)
• Free maps http://www.openstreetmap.org
• Free City names/places/coordinates http://www.geonames.org/
• Map relief als SVG http://ow.ly/qa4cu
• Geo IP Database http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity
• QMapShack openstreetmap offline client (QLandkarteGT successor) https://bitbucket.org/maproom/qmapshack/
• Vektors http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
• Vektors Europe http://www.eurogeographics.org/
• https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ Application to edit maps
• Tile engine, make huge images and maps zoomable http://openlayers.org/,ModestMaps +easey, http://polymaps.org/, http://leafletjs.com/
• Javascript open source Google Earth maps / 3d globus https://www.cesiumjs.org/
• Open source social map https://www.keplerjs.io/
• Free Geoserver: http://opengeo.org/products/suite/community/
• tile cache (proxy) for opengeoserver geowebcache.org
• OSM to print https://maposmatic.osm-baustelle.de
• Map software (convert OSM-files to SVG with layers http://maperitive.net/
• XML-file with country information http://jmatchparser.sourceforge.net/factbook/

Forms (server based)

• conventional https://www.typeform.com/
• live e.g. during conferences http://www.pollev.com (free?)
• realtime live wiki / collaborative editor https://spacepads.de/, http://etherpad.org/

Server based system tools (server based)

• https://www.proxmox.com/de/ Virtualization server (VMware ESXI open Source alternative)
• https://www.proxmox.com/de/proxmox-mail-gateway Anti Spam Gateway
• Monitoring: https://www.nagios.org/, https://www.zabbix.com/ or https://prometheus.io/
• Nagios-Configuration/Webinterface: centreon . Nagios Status Monitor https://nagstamon.ifw-dresden.de/
• https://wazuh.com/ central intrusion detection for https://www.ossec.net/

Document management (server based)

• Alfresco
• Digital Asset Management
  • Resourcespace http://www.resourcespace.org/
  • w/ machine learning https://github.com/photoprism/
• Seafile (dropbox-alternative)
• https://mayan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless, https://github.com/openpaperwork/paperwork

Documentation management (server based)

• http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/
• living style guide bspw. https://sourcejs.com/ oder https://trulia.github.io/hologram/
• webodf
• readthedocs.org
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/bookbinder running middleman (kirby ähnlich?)
• https://github.com/devo-ps/carte API documentation
• https://github.com/tripit/slate API documentation
• http://sphinx-doc.org/ documentation
• https://antora.org/ Multi Repo ASCIIdoc documentation site generator
• https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook Git based books

Wiki (server based)

• Enterprise Mediawiki fork http://de.bluespice.com/produkte/bluespice-free/download/

Discussion (server based)

• http://www.discourse.org/, e.g. discuss.atom.io, https://esotalk.org/
• https://github.com/coralproject/talk comments plattform

E-Mail, PIM and Productivity (server based)

• Kolab Groupware
• Open Xchange Groupware
• https://sogo.nu/
• Roundcube Webmailer
• Squirrelmail Webmailer
• presentations
  • reveal.js
  • http://sozi.baierouge.fr/ free prezi clone
• Mailcow mail server bundle
• Iredmail mail server bundle
• Time Tracker https://github.com/CoralTime/CoralTime , https://github.com/overshard/timestrap

File-based/Static CMS (server based)

• Kirby http://getkirby.com/
• Hugo https://gohugo.io/,
• Middleman https://middlemanapp.com/,
• http://nanoc.ws/,
• https://blog.getpelican.com/
• https://www.htmly.com/
• https://getstatik.com/,
• list https://staticsitegenerators.net/,

Open source online shop systems (server based)

• http://www.oscommerce.de
• magento http://www.inmedias.de/P/Magento/
• http://www.shopware.de/
• Prestashop http://www.prestashop.com/de/
• Mage+ magentor fork http://www.mageplus.org/
• xt comemerce http://www.xt-commerce.com/
• http://www.prestashop.com/
• OXID eShop http://www.oxid-esales.com/de/download/open-source-software-oxid-eshop-community-edition
• Zen cart http://www.zen-cart.at/zcvb/
• http://www.xtc-modified.org/
• http://virtuemart.net/ (Joomla Shop Modul)
• http://www.typo3-macher.de/xtcommerce.html (Typo3 modul)
• http://www.ubercart.org/ (Drupal modul)

E-learning (server based)

• Docebo, http://www.docebo.org/
• Moodle http://moodle.de/
• Open source automated web assessment https://github.com/openHPI/codeocean , https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta

Development tools (server based)

• Source code styler / coding standards enforcer https://github.com/mikedugan/StyleCI
• Exception tracker (noch nicht benutzt): https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
• Eclipse Che Cloud IDE https://www.eclipse.org/che/
• Zanata web based translation platform (similar to transifex, but FOSS?) https://github.com/zanata/zanata-platform
• Logfile analytics: Logstash+Kibana oder bspw. https://grafana.com/

Identity management

• FreeIPA https://www.freeipa.org
• http://supervene.com/razdc/
• https://www.keycloak.org/downloads.html
• https://evolveum.com/midpoint/about-midpoint/

Obscure/Rarely used (server based)

• https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitica/ Habit tracking/changing system
• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara "The pattern matching swiss knife" for file and malware signatures
• https://wekan.github.io/ open source kanban
• https://pol.is/home open source survey/sentiment analysis
• https://solid.mit.edu/ decentralized storage of social data
• whistleblower-platform https://securedrop.org/
• https://www.ancestris.org/ Geneaologie-Software
• Heritrix/wayback machine server based internet page archival
• Ascii screen recorder https://asciinema.org/
• Conference management system http://frab.github.io/frab/ and https://github.com/nevs/pentabarf
• https://github.com/voc/voctoweb and https://github.com/voc/voctomix media.ccc.de conference video recording software
• Thera-Pi Open Source ERP for physiotherapy http://www.thera-pi.org/
• Digital long term preservation platform https://www.archivematica.org/
• Ulteo open virtual desktop terminalserver with app sandbox and web interface http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/ovdi/openvirtualdesktop?autolang=en
• x2go terminal server with linux- windows, mac and thin clients http://www.x2go.org
• LTSP: thin client terminal server http://www.ltsp.org
• adaptive /captive wlan firewall:
  • chillispot http://www.chillispot.info/
  • focus Firewall https://packetfence.org/
  • w/Radius: https://zeroshell.org/, http://radiusdesk.com/
• application virtualization: http://www.evalaze.de/
• Kiosk: http://boothbox.sourceforge.net/ is really old so I would go for http://www.linutop.com/ or http://porteus-kiosk.org/
• MySQLDump-Importer http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump/

Online resources

On line tools

• Regular expression Test-Tool: http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

• Make http requests http://hurl.it Get http requests: http://requestb.in/

• Inspect HTTP Requests http://requestb.in

• Videoconferencing WebRTC Hubl.in https://hubl.in/ Appear.in https://appear.in/ https://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

• JSON formatter and tester: http://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

• HTML validierer http://validator.w3.org/

• RSS validierer http://validator.w3.org/feed/

• IPv6 validator http://ipv6-test.com/validate.php

• IPv6 tunner www.tunnelbroker.net

• Tineye Reverse Image Search http://www.tineye.com/

• Payment providers lt. ix

  • paymill.com
  • computop.de
  • ogone.com
  • worldpay.com (keine Kreditkarten außerhalb GB)
  • www.moneybookers.com

• Test websites with different browsers: https://browserling.com/

• Old Browser archive http://browsers.evolt.org/ and https://spoon.net/browsers old IEs http://my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage old Netscape http://sillydog.org/narchive/ old Firefox https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

On line tools security

• hack voice mailbox http://www.spooftel.com/
• crack captchas http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/PWNtcha
• generate "secure" captchashttp://www.phpcaptcha.org/download/