50 Open Source Software For Your Windows PC! App Collections: These are tools that contain a number of open source software within them. They are complete packages that can run on Windows. 1. OpenDisc 2. PortableApps 3. winPenPack Antivirus: You already know an what Antivirus is, add something get a good one, for example, use this software 4. ClamWin Free Antivirus Astronomy: These are nifty tools that map the night sky for you and show you how the sky is looking at a particular moment from a particular point. 5. Celestia 6. Stellarium Audio Tools: While VLC is the obviously the most popular open source audi player on Windows, there are some others that cater to musicians and audio/video editors as well. 7. Amarok 8. Audacity 9. Clementine 10. MuseScore Backup: It is always advised that you should backup the data on your machine. This is where these open source tools can be very handy. 11. AMANDA 12. Areca Backup 13. Redo Blogging: Wordpress is the suite of choice for those looking to develop their own websites and blogs. It contains a number of functionalities and features. 14. WordPress Browsers: You would of course known about Mozillas Firefox internet browser. This is the most popular open source brower used by many people all over the world. In addition, there are 15. Chromium 16. Firefox 17. Tor Browser CAD 18. BRL-CAD Groupware: These are software that help you track and manage group projects where you are collborating with a lot of other people. 19. Collabtive 20. Feng Office Compression: 21. PeaZip Content Management Content Management Systems are computer programs that allow the publishing, editing and modification of content from a central source. Best examples of this would be Drupal and Jhoomla. 22. DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) 23. Drupal 24. Joomla 25. Plone Customer Relationship Management: These software aid companies in future and current customer relationship maintenance. 26. Sugar Community Edition Databases: Windows may not exactly be a friend of open source, but no one can deny its contributions to the tech world. Many programmers have created the best of programs while using the Windows OS. For this they needed databases and many of them used open source databases. 27. Firebird 28. MySQL 29. PostgreSQL Data Destruction: Recycing it just as important on your computer as it is in real life. There comes a time when you need to get rid of data. This is where this software comes in handy. 30. BleachBit 31. Dariks Boot And Nuke Desktop Enhancements: These are software that add various elements to your desktop. This could include sticky notes, screensavers and a bunch of other interactive components. 32. Electric Sheep 33. PNotes 34. VirtuaWin Desktop Publishing: These are page layour publishers. Other examples of this would be QuarkExpress, Adobe Indesign etc. 35. Scribus Email Client: These clients can manage your email, especially the one mentioned here, which integrates beautifully with the Firefox internet brower 36. Thunderbird Encryption: These software can make encrypting files so easy that you sometimes have to do nothing more than make a simple mouse click. 37. AxCrypt 38. Gpg4win 39. TrueCrypt Enterprise Resource Planning: As the name suggests, these software aid enterprises in their planning purposes. 40. ADempiere 41. Apache OFBiz 42. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution 43. Openbravo 44. Postbooks/xTuple ERP Games: Windows has been the better platform for games, but open source games have still penetrated this platform and made a name for themselves. 45. 0 A.D. 46. Alien Arena 47. AssaultCube Reloaded 48. FlightGear 49. Frets on Fire 50. GCompris
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