Open Source tools and utilities
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What this lens is about
There are free open source alternatives to commercial software for almost any purpose you can imagine. But finding out the best ones may be hard. This lens is a list of the best open source software I have found and tested. Of course, you are free to disagree with my recommendations, but if this is the case, I beg you to share your point of view with others by writing your comments below. Thanks !
Tools checklist
Besides the main applications most people use, there are many small applications and utilities that at a given moment in time are required to perform specific jobs. Below is a list (by no means complete) of useful applications I have used, mostly Open Source:
Office Applications
OpenOffice - The Open Source alternative to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Development Environment
StarUML - Editor of Unified Modelling Language Documentation
Eclipse - The most complete Open Source Development Framework
Cygwin - Unix emulator on Windows
Proxomitron - Local Proxy. Very useful for tracing communication issues
Audio and video
Audacity - Free audio editor
Ffmpeg - Free video editor and converter
Mencoder - Another free video editor and converter
divxplayer - DivX Player
Web Server
Apache - Of course
Tomcat - Java application server
Joomla - Content management system with thousands of extensions
GSiteCrawler - Sitemap generator
DataBases
PostgreSQL - Open Source, powerful and stable DBMS
MySQL - Currently, the ubicuous Open Source DBMS
Power*Architect - Database Modelling Tool
File Transfer
Filezilla - Open Source GUI FTP client.
eMule - Peer to Peer Utility
Programming languages
PHP
Perl
Java
Other
Daemon Tools
Office Applications
OpenOffice - The Open Source alternative to Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Development Environment
StarUML - Editor of Unified Modelling Language Documentation
Eclipse - The most complete Open Source Development Framework
Cygwin - Unix emulator on Windows
Proxomitron - Local Proxy. Very useful for tracing communication issues
Audio and video
Audacity - Free audio editor
Ffmpeg - Free video editor and converter
Mencoder - Another free video editor and converter
divxplayer - DivX Player
Web Server
Apache - Of course
Tomcat - Java application server
Joomla - Content management system with thousands of extensions
GSiteCrawler - Sitemap generator
DataBases
PostgreSQL - Open Source, powerful and stable DBMS
MySQL - Currently, the ubicuous Open Source DBMS
Power*Architect - Database Modelling Tool
File Transfer
Filezilla - Open Source GUI FTP client.
eMule - Peer to Peer Utility
Programming languages
PHP
Perl
Java
Other
Daemon Tools
Content management - Joomla
Even for a web site with a few pages, a content management system is an important tool to help create and structure the site content, to ease the creation and maintenance of common elements (header, footer, menus,...) and to ensure it complies with standards.
Joomla is the Open Source CMS that best covers my expectations.
Joomla is the Open Source CMS that best covers my expectations.
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