List of free and open source software packages

This is a list of software free to be modified and distributed. For examples of software free in the monetary sense, see List of freeware.

This is a list of free and open source software packages: computer software licensed under free software licenses and open source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open source. For more information about the philosophical background for open source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here.


Remote access and management

* FreeNX
* OpenVPN
* Purgos
* rdesktop
* Synergy
* VNC (RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC)

* Wget

Web-related

* Apache Cocoon — a web application framework
* Apache — the most popular web server
* AWStats — a log file parser and analyzer
* BookmarkSync — a tool for browsers
* Cherokee HTTP Server — a cross-platform Web server
* CougarXML — A Javascript framework for parsing and manipulating XML code, based on W3C DOM Level-3 specifications.
* curl-loader - a powerful HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS loading and testing open-source tool
* HTTP File Server — a user friendly file server software with a drag and drop interface
* Distributed ICDL Crawler — an open source web crawler based on Website Parse Template
* lighttpd — Resource sparing but also fast and full featured HTTP Server
* nginx — lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy
* NetKernel — an internet application server
* Qcodo — Open Source PHP 5 Framework
* Roxen Webserver — Open Source web server
* Squid cache — web proxy cache
* Web-Developer Server Suite — a package of web applications including Apache, MySQL, and PHP
* XAMPP — a package of web applications including Apache and MySQL
* Zope — a web application server

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