Desktop Applications

Communication
1. Email Client = Thunderbird 1. Compare to: Microsoft Outlook IRC Client = X-Chat 2, Bersirc 2. Compare to: mIRC Universal Instant Messaging Client = Pidgin (formerly Gaim), Miranda IM 3. Compare to: Trillian Web browser = Firefox, Chromium 4. Compare to: Microsoft Internet Explorer Voice Over IP = QuteCom, Ekiga 5. Compare to: Skype

Engineering
1. EDA = KiCad 1. Compare to: Eagle Numeric Computation = SciLab 2. Compare to: MatLab

Educational
1. Learning Games = Childsplay 1. Compare to: Unknown Planetarium = Stellarium 2. Compare to: Starry Night Space Simulator = Celestia 3. Compare to: Unknown Flight Simulator = FlightGear 4. Compare to: MS Flight Simulator Typing Tutor = Tux Typing 5. Compare to: Unknown Beginner Drawing Program = Tux Paint 6. Compare to: KidPix Reference & Citation Manager = Zotero 7. Compare to: EndNote

Financial
1. Personal Accounting = HomeBank, Grisbi, jGnash 1. Compare to: Quicken, Microsoft Money Accounting: GnuCash, TurboCash 2. Compare to: Intuit Quickbooks Monitoraggio Finanziario = MFbyAS 3. Compare to: Unknown

Games
1. 3D Space Simulator = Vega Strike, Epiar 1. Compare to: Eve-Online 3D Tank Battle (Real-time) = BZFlag 2. Compare to: Unknown 3D Tank Battle (Turn-based) = Scorched 3D 3. Compare to: Unknown 3D Pirate Action/Adventure = Crown and Cutlass 4. Compare to: Pirates! Arcade space shooter = Chromium, Max Fighter, Kobo Deluxe 5. Compare to: Demon Star, Chicken Invaders Billiards (Pool) = FooBillard, BillardGL 6. Compare to: Unknown Cards (Solitaire) = PySolFC (PySol Fan Club Edition) 7. Compare to: Windows Solitaire, Windows FreeCell, Windows Spider, Pretty Good Solitaire First-person Shooter = Sauerbraten, Warsow, Tremulous, OpenArena, Nexuiz 8. Compare to: Quake, Doom, Unreal First-person Shooter (Hexen II clone) = Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion 9. Compare to: Hexen II Karaoke player = Plarpebu, PyKaraoke

10. Compare to: Unknown Lemmings-clone = Pingus 11. Compare to: Lemmings Mario-clone = SuperTux, Secret Maryo Chronicles 12. Compare to: Super Mario Bros Missle-Command clone = Penguin Command 13. Compare to: Unknown MMORPG = PlaneShift, Eternal Lands 14. Compare to: Everquest Net Hack clone = Vulture's Eye/Claw 15. Compare to: Unknown Pang clone = PiX Pang 16. Compare to: Super Pang Racing = Extreme Tux Racer, VDrift, SuperTuxKart 17. Compare to: Unknown Real-Time Strategy = Glest, Dark Oberon, Globulation 18. Compare to: Warcraft 2, Starcraft Risk clone = JavaRisk 19. Compare to: Unknown Singstar clone = UltraStar Deluxe 20. Compare to: Singstar Tron clone = Armagetron Advanced 21. Compare to: Unknown Turn-based Strategy (Fantasy) = Battle for Wesnoth 22. Compare to: Age of Wonders, Heroes of Might and Magic, Warlords Turn-based Strategy (World Building) = LinCity-NG OpenTTD 23. Compare to: SimCity, Transport Tycoon Deluxe Turn-based Strategy (Sci-Fi) = UFO: Alien Invasion, Zombies 24. Compare to: X-Com Unique = SpiceTrade 25. Compare to: Unknown Unique = Neverball 26. Compare to: Unknown Unique = X-Moto 27. Compare to: Elasto Mania

Productivity
1. Database (Desktop) = OpenOffice (Base) 1. Compare to: Microsoft Office (Access) Desktop Publishing = Scribus 2. Compare to: Microsoft Publisher Mind Mapping = FreeMind 3. Compare to: Mindjet MindManager, Inspiration PDF creator = PDF Creator 4. Compare to: Adobe Acrobat Presentation = OpenOffice (Impress) 5. Compare to: Microsoft Office (Powerpoint) Spreadsheet = OpenOffice (Calc), Gnumeric 6. Compare to: Microsoft Office (Excel) Word Processor = OpenOffice (Writer), AbiWord 7. Compare to: Microsoft Office (Word) Scientific Word Processor = Lyx (LaTeX GUI frontend) 8. Compare to: Scientific Word Notepad Replacement = Notepad2, Notepad++, SciTE 9. Compare to: Notepad Report bursting and report distribution = DocumentBurster 10. Compare to: AutoDocHSE

Management
1. Gantt chart = GanttProject 1. Compare to: Microsoft Project Project management = Planner, OpenWorkbench 2. Compare to: Microsoft Project Report Creator = JasperReports 3. Compare to: Crystal Reports Analisi dei processi = APbyAS 4. Compare to Unknown Gestione Attivit = PMbyAS 5. Compare to Microsoft Project Team Collaboration = Mindquarry 6. Compare to Microsoft Sharepoint

Human Resource Management = OrangeHRM 7. Compare to PeopleSoft HCM

Misc
1. Animal Shelter Manager = Animal Shelter Manager 1. Compare to: Unknown Virtual PC emulator = VirtualBox, Bochs, Qemu 2. Compare to: VMware, Microsoft Virtual PC Linux environment = Cygwin 3. Compare to: Microsoft Services For Unix (SFU) (formerly Interix, formerly OpenNT) Recipe Manager = Gourmet Recipe Manager 4. Compare to: Unknown Screen Saver = Really Slick Screensavers 5. Compare to: Unknown Language Translation tool = OmegaT 6. Compare to: Unknown Countdown Timer = CookTimer 7. Compare to: Unknown Application Launcher = Launchy 8. Compare to: Unknown Worship presentation = OpenLP 9. Compare to: MediaShout, SongPro

Multimedia
3D
1. 3D Animation = Blender, Wings 3D 1. Compare to: Alias Maya 3D Graphics = POV-Ray 2. Compare to: Unknown 3D Game Development Kit = Crystal Space, Ogre3d 3. Compare to: Unknown

Audio
1. Audio Composition = OpenSebJ 1. Compare to: Ableton Live Audio Editing = Audacity 2. Compare to: Adobe Audition Audio Player = Coolplayer, Zinf, Songbird 3. Compare to: WinAMP, Windows Media Player, iTunes Drum Machine = Hydrogen 4. Compare to: Unknown MP3 Ripper = CDex 5. Compare to: Exact Audio Copy Piano Sampled Virtual Instrument = vScaleNotes 6. Compare to: Ivory - Grand Pianos Volume normalizer = MP3Gain 7. Compare to: Unknown

Drawing
1. Diagram Editor = Dia 1. Compare to: Microsoft Visio Image Editing = Gimp, Pinta 2. Compare to: Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop, Paint.NET Vector Drawing = Inkscape 3. Compare to: Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW Digital Painting = MyPaint 4. Compare to: Corel Painter

Other
1. HTPC/PVR Media Centre = MediaPortal 1. Compare to: Microsoft Media Centre Edition (MCE), Showshifter, SageTV Media Player = VLC media player 2. Compare to: Windows Media Player, PowerLink PowerDVD, Intervideo WinDVD Flash Player = JW Player for Flash 3. Compare to: Flow Player, Agriya

Silverlight Player = JW Player for Silverlight 4. Compare to: Windows Media Player HTML5 Player = JW Player for HTML5 5. Compare to: HTML5 Video Player Desktop Media Player = JW Desktop Player 6. Compare to: VLC media player Image Rotator = JW Image Rotator 7. Compare to: jQuery Image Rotators Web Design = Nvu 8. Compare to: Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver

Video
1. Internet TV platform = Miro 1. Compare to: iTunes, FireAnt Video Capture = VirtualDub 2. Compare to: Sorenson Squeeze Video MPEG-4 codec = ffdshow, XviD 3. Compare to: DivX Video Editing = Jashaka, Avidemux, 4. Compare to: Adobe After Effects, Pinnacle Studio, Apple Final Cut

Security
1. 802.1x client (EAP-TTLS) = SecureW2 [no longer opensource] 1. Compare to: Unknown Anti-Spyware = Winpooch, Spybot Search&Destroy (not OpenSource, but FreeWare) 2. Compare to: Unknown Anti-Virus = ClamWin 3. Compare to: Unknown Encryption = Truecrypt 4. Compare to: Win Zip? Network protocol analyzer = Wireshark 5. Compare to: Sniffer Password strength testing = Ophcrack 2 6. Compare to: LOphtCrack Password safe = KeePass Password Safe, Password Safe 7. Compare to: Unknown VPN client = OpenVPN client GUI for Windows 8. Compare to: Cisco VPN client, Nortel VPN client

Software Development
1. Framework/Platform = Mono 1. Compare to: Microsoft .NET Framework, Java Integrated Development Environment = Eclipse, SharpDevelop, Code::Blocks, Lazarus IDE, Free Pascal, Padre, the Perl IDE 2. Compare to: Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland IDE Windows Installer = Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, Inno Setup 3. Compare to: InstallShield, Microsoft Installer Visual Basic clone = gambas - A visual development environment using a programming language similar to Visual Basic 4. Compare to: Microsoft Visual Basic

Utilities
1. BitTorrent client = Azureus, BitTorrent Client 1. Compare to: Unknown File compression = 7-Zip 2. Compare to: WinZip FTP Client = Filezilla FTP client 3. Compare to: SmartFTP, BulletProof FTP Statistics on Disk usage = WinDirStat 4. Compare to: Unknown P2P file-sharing = Shareaza, Ares 5. Compare to: Napster Remote Administration = UltraVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC 6. Compare to: PCAnywhere, GoToMyPC.com, Windows Remote Desktop Process Usage Analysis = Process History 7. Compare to: Task Manager Daphne, process list & manager = Daphne 8. Compare to: Windows task manager Download Manager = Free Download manager 9. Compare to: Internet Download Manager

Files Listing = Klyster 10. Compare to: Unknown

Server Applications
Content Management
1. Enterprise Content Management = Alfresco 1. Compare to: Sharepoint, Documentum,Filenet, OpenText, Vignette, Interwoven

Database
1. Database server = Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL 1. Compare to: Microsoft SQL server, Oracle database Elastic key-value database = NorthScale Membase Server 2. Compare to: Unknown

File Server
1. FTP server = Filezilla FTP server 1. Compare to: Unknown

Messaging
1. Email server = hMailServer 1. Compare to: Microsoft Exchange server, Novell GroupWise server Instant messaging server = Jive Messenger 2. Compare to: Novell GroupWise Messenger

Security
1. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) = Snort 1. Compare to: Unknown VPN server = OpenVPN 2. Compare to: Cisco VPN

Web
1. Application server = JBoss 1. Compare to: BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere Rich Internet Application Server = OpenLaszlo 2. Compare to: Macromedia Flex Statistics Generator = AWStats 3. Compare to: Unknown Web server = Apache 4. Compare to: Microsoft Internet Information Services (ISS)