OSSwin chronicles Windows OSS software

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OSSwin chronicles Windows OSS software

by Ryan Carter Sep 25th 2006

Unless you have a really great memory, or consider yourself a walking Windows Open Source Software directory, complete with URLs, you'll want to bookmark this site, The OSSwin project is a good listing of OSS software for Windows (list hosted by Sourceforge.net). Consider this contraband headquarters, a site dedicated to slowly taking over your PC with non-Microsoft software. Closed-source software is so early-90's. The OSSwin project reads like a menu of interesting and flavorful choices. It is by no means comprehensive, but you may a few downloads you haven't seen before. Enjoy downloading this tidy list of apps from The OSSwin project. The categories included in this mother-lode are as follows:

Audio editing tools
Business Software
CAD software
Calendar Software
CD Writing
Compression/ZIP
Databases
Desktop Environments
Dictionaries
Drivers/Hardware
Educational
Emulators
Encyclopedia
Filesharing
FTP clients
Firewall & NAT
File Systems
Games
Graphics
Instant Messaging

Internet Voice chat
IRC clients
Mail & News
Media Players (audio)
Media Players (video)
Media Players (codecs)
MC303 utilities
Networking tools
NTP clients
Office tools
Operating Systems
PostScript viewers
Programming
Remote access
Sciences and Math
Security, Privacy, Protection,...
Server software
SCP (SecureCoPy) clients
Stream Downloaders
Text editors

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