Open your Windows - Large Free Software List (FOSS)

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Open your Windows - Large Free Software List (FOSS)

3D Games

	Celestia Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions.
	glTron Gltron is inspired by the movie TRON. Or more exactly, by all the games that where inspired by the movie TRON. Combat takes place in a rectangular arena. You steer a futuristic bike, called a lightcycle, that leaves behind a trail that acts as a wall. Your goal is to force the other players to crash into a wall and be the last player alive.
	Tux Racer Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the ability to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds.
	BZFlag BZFlag is a multiplayer 3D tank battle game. It was one of the most popular games available on Silicon Graphics machines.
	Flight Gear The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
	noeGNUd - 3d NetHack An alternate ascii/2D/3D UI for nethack using SDL and OpenGL, it’s all about choice.
	BillardGL BillardGL is an OpenGL pool billiard simulation, which was developed within the scope of our course “Computergraphics” at the University of Freiburg (Germany). BillardGL is published under the GPL and is available for download for Windows and Linux.
	Egoboo Egoboo is a 3d dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack.
	MesaDemos (OpenGL Tests) OpenGL is a standard for high performance 3D graphics. These programs demonstrate the OpenGL capabilities of your computer and provide a suite of programs for testing and benchmarking.
	Trackballs - a well known marble arcade game Trackballs is a simple game similar to the classical game Marble Madness on the Amiga in the 80’s.

Computer Security

	Eraser - File Shredder Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
	GPG - GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application.
	OpenSSL OpenSSL is a full-strength general-purpose cryptography tool.
	WinPT WinPT (Windows Privacy Tray) is a taskbar utility which helps you encrypt and decrypt data.
	Nmap Nmap (”Network Mapper”) is an open source utility for network exploration or security auditing
	ClamWin ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows NT/98/Me/2000/XP/2003. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus scanning engine.

Games


	Crack Attack! A free OpenGL game for Linux and Windows based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
	Free Civ FreeCiv is a free clone of the famous Civilization II^TM by Sid Meier. ‘Cause civilization should be free!
	Frozen Bubble Frozen Bubble is game where you must clear a screen full of colored bubbles, using a bubble gun.
	GNU Chess GNU Chess, the GNU Chess program ! A very powerfull program that comes in handy if you want to train seriously at home.
	LBreakout2 A beautiful breakout style arcade game with many challenging twists and stunning graphics.
	NetHack (textmode) NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game.
	SnakeMe If you like arcade games and fun, try SnakeMe: it’s simply the best snake game ever ! But that’s not all, SnakeMe is also 100% FREE (GPL).
	AirStrike A multiplayer 2d dogfight game.
	Chromium B.S.U Chromium is a 2D Scrolling (arcade-like) shoot-em-up
	Circus Linux! Bounce the clowns to pop the balloons.
	Enigma Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock’n'Roll on the Amiga.
	Jump n Bump You’re a cute little bunny and you have to avoid the other bunnies from stomping on you and at the same time try to stomp as many opponents as possible. Jump & bump is multiplayer only with up to four players simultaneously. Gather the local crew and have a blast.
	LeoCAD LeoCAD is a CAD program that uses bricks similar to those found in many toys.
	Lincity - A City Simulation Game Lincity is a city simulation game, in the likes of the first versions of SimCity, but OpenSource!
	Luola Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1 - 4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.
	Maelstrom Maelstrom is a fast action arcade-style game for the Macintosh that uses rendered 3D graphics, high speed animation, and four channel digitized sound effects. The end result is a nerve-wracking arcade game that is sure to leave blisters on your fingers.
	NJam Njam is a full-featured cross-platform pacman-like game written in C++ using SDL library
	Tower Toppler In this game you have to help a cute little green animal switch off some kind of “evil” mechanism. The “power off switch” is hidden somewhere in high towers. On your way to the target you need to avoid a lot of strange robots that guard the tower.

	TuxType TuxTyping is an educational typing tutor for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin.
	Vectoroids Use your spaceship to destroy asteroids. Try to avoid crashing into them!
	XBill A funny little game: save the world from Evil Bill…
	xrick xrick is a clone of Rick Dangerous
	DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card …
	Pingus Pingus is a free Lemmings clone for GNU/Linux; a Windows port is also available, covered under the GPL
	WinPenguins WinPenguins features cute little penguins that wander around your Windows desktop.
	Advanced Strategic Command ASC is a free, turn based strategy game. It is designed in the tradition of the Battle Isle series from Bluebyte and is currently available for Windows and Linux. ASC is distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License (the license Linux uses too), which basically means the game is free, the complete source code is available and you can do everything with it as long as it remains free. Virus warnings Some antivirus programs report that ASC is infected with the W32/CTX virus. ASC is NOT infected with any virus, this is a false alarm!
	AutoREALM AutoREALM is a freely available fantasy role-playing map making program.
	Defendguin Defendguin is a clone of the arcade game “Defender”, but with a Linux theme. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated.
	Gem Drop X Grab and throw gems to make matches of three or more.

	Mad Bomber The Mad Bomber is dropping bombs everywhere! Catch them with your buckets of water!
	NetHack - Falcon’s Eye Falcon’s Eye is a mouse-driven interface for NetHack that enhances the visuals, audio and accessibility of the game, yet retains all the original gameplay and game features.
	Stratagus Stratagus is a free cross-platform real-time strategy gaming engine. It includes support for playing over the internet/LAN, or playing a computer opponent. The engine is configurable and can be used to create games with a wide-range of features specific to your needs. See the data sets page for a list of current games using the stratagus engine.

Graphics

	Sodipodi Sodipodi is a vector-based drawing program.
	The Gimp Gimp is a powerful image creation and manipulation program.
	Blender Blender is a cross plaform 3D creation suite, allowing fully integrated modeling, animation, rendering, post production and interactive 3D creation and playback.
	povray PovRay, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, open source tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics.
	Dia Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license
	ScreenCopy smartision ScreenCopy is a screenshot tool.

	Image Magick ImageMagickis a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a usage license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically, making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, or Java programming interfaces.

Internet and Communications


	Gaim Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client which is compatible with Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.

	Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a lean alternative to the Mozilla Suite, roughly half its size and a tad faster. It offers quite a few of the features people have come to love in Mozilla, like tabbed browsing or the suppression of pop-up windows.
	PuTTY PuTTY is a Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client.
	Ethereal Ethereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It requires WinPcap.
	FileZilla FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for easy use and for support for as much features as possible while still being fast and reliable.
	Gnucleus Gnucleus is a Gnutella peer to peer client.
	Miranda IM Miranda IM is an ICQ and MSN client.
	Sylpheed-Claws Email and News client
	WinHTTrack Website Copier HTTrack is a free, open source and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
	Xchat Xchat is an IRC client for UNIX operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat. Xchat also runs on MS-Windows.

	Apache web server The most popular web server on Internet!
	Exodus Exodus is an instant messaging client for the open standard JabberÂ® protocol, developed to be a “successor” to the very popular client Winjab. It’s smaller, faster, easier to use, and looks better
	links Links is a very nice textmode browser.
	Psi Psi is a client for the Jabber system. Written in C++ and based on the Qt library, there are versions available for Linux (and other flavors of unix/X11), Microsoft Windows, and Apple MacOS X. Psi is released under the GNU General Public License, so you know that it’s truly free, and will remain so.

	Speak Freely Speak Freely is a 100% free Internet telephone.
	NcFTP NcFTP is an ftp client, good for scripting.
	OpenPhone The OpenH323 project aims to create a full featured, interoperable, Open Source implementation of the ITU H.323 teleconferencing protocol that can be used by personal developers and commercial users without charge.
	OpenSSH OpenSSH on Windows v3.4-3 Includes ssh, scp, and sftp clients and servers for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. Servers not available for Win 9x/ME
	SLRN SLRN is an NNTP-based newsreader.
	Blat Blat is a Public Domain Windows 95/NT console utility that sends the contents of a file in an e-mail message using the SMTP protocol.
	grubclient Grub provides a free for download, free to run, distributed crawling client.
	iXplorer Secure iXplorer looks like an FTP graphical client, but uses SSH to connect.

	Spamihilator Spamihilator is a spam filter use Bayesian and word filtering to filter spam out of your email inbox.
	TightVNC VNC (an abbreviation for Virtual Network Computing) is a great client/server software package allowing remote network access to graphical desktops.

Multimedia

	VideoLAN Client The VideoLAN Client (vlc) is a multi-platform multimedia player.
	mPlayer - a media player MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats.

	FlasKMPEG FlasKMPEG is a free easy to use video conversion software utility.
	Mp3 Tag Tools Intuitive ID3v1.1 & ID3v2.x, lyrics, picture mp3 tag editing utility.

	Solfege GNU Solfege is a computer program written to help you practice ear training. It can be useful when practicing simple musical exercises.
	CDex CDex is a utility for extracting (ripping) any audio files from an audio CD.

Office

	OpenOffice.org OpenOffice is a powerful office suite capable of importing and exporting Microsoft Office^TM files.
	XEmacs XEmacs is one of the most powerfull text editors.
	Abi Word AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to MicrosoftÂ® Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc.
	GNU - Ghostscript Interpreter for the PostScript^TM language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
	Dia Dia is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license

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2 Responses to “Open your Windows - Large Free Software List (FOSS)”

Peter Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Just want to tell everyone that VideoLAN Client (VLC) has one enormously beneficial feature. It ignores region coding making your computer essentially region free i.e. you can play DVDs with other region codes without having to change your PC’s region code so long as you play them in VLC. Particularly useful as this doesn’t result in your computer being locked into any particular region.
Matt Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Thats pretty awesome! I didn’t even realise