# Open Source Software

Open Source Software

# About

This site contains a selection of the very best open source software for the Windows™ environment. You may legally use and distribute this software free of charge!

# Favourites

LibreOffice
Software bundle for office work, including text processing software, for work with spreadsheets, databases and presentations. It supports Microsoft Office™ and European official OpenDocument document standard.

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Firefox
A modern, safe, full-featured web browser with many extension options.

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Thunderbird
A serious application for reading e-mail and RSS-Feeds with convenient tools for organising mail and combating spam.

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GIMP
A useful image processing application for creating and editing photographs and other images. Requires the GTK+ library.

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VLC
A video player supporting many video file formats, DVD and VCD discs plus most streaming formats on the Internet. Includes a choice of interfaces.

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7-Zip
A simple and effective file compression and extraction utility, with support for many formats and can be used to combine separate files.

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Ashampoo burning studio
A CD/DVD burning application with many features and an intuitive user interface.

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# Office Software

LibreOffice
Software bundle for office work, including text processing software, for work with spreadsheets, databases and presentations. It supports Microsoft Office™ and European official OpenDocument document standard.

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PDFCreator
A small utility with which you can create PDF documents from virtually any Windows™ application.

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Notepad++
A small and simple complement to the classic Notepad with features such as syntax highlighting.

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Thunderbird lightning calendar
A calendar application for personal time management. Available as a supplement to Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Dia
A diagramming tool with support for many file formats. Microsoft Visio™

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Freeplane
A useful "mind mapping" tool for organising your ideas with many options for exporting your "mind maps".

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# Design Software

GIMP
A useful image processing application for creating and editing photographs and other images. Requires the GTK+ library..

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Inkscape
A vector graphics design tool supporting many popular file formats.

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Tux Paint
A popular paint application for children from 3 to 12 years with a simple interface and interesting effects.

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Paint.NET
An intuitive photo and image editing application.

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Kompozer
A full-featured but simple web site design application.

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Scribus
A professional desktop publishing layout application with a modern interface.

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Blender
A powerful professional application for 3D modelling, animation and editing to create static images and video clips.

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Jahshaka
A simple but powerful video editing and effects tool.

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# Internet Software

Firefox
A modern, safe, full-featured web browser with many extension options. Includes support for all Baltic languages.

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Thunderbird
A serious application for reading e-mail and RSS-Feeds with convenient tools for organising mail and combating spam.

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Vuze
A BitTorrent file sharing tool with many unique features.

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RevConnect
A high-performance Direct Connect/DC++ file sharing tool.

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FileZilla
A fast, friendly and reliable FTP client that also supports sFTP protocol.

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Pidgin
An instant messaging tool that supports protocols such as AIM™, ICQ, IRC, MSN™, Google Talk and Yahoo!™.

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eMule
A file sharing tool for the world's largest peer to peer network.

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HTTrack
A useful utility for viewing web sites off-line.

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TightVNC
A powerful remote administration tool that enables you to control your workstation over the Internet.

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# Multimedia Software

Audacity
A simple but powerful tool for recording, editing and converting audio with support for many formats.

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VLC
A video player supporting many video file formats, DVD and VCD discs plus most streaming formats on the Internet. Includes a choice of interfaces.

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Songbird
A music player for not only music files but also Internet streams. Songbird supports many useful extensions.

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MediaCoder
A universal audio/video conversion utility supporting batch processing.

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# Entertainment & Education Software

Celestia
A 3D space simulator for exploring our planet and depths of the universe.

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Stellarium
A simple application to view realistic starry skies from many parts of the world.

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Electric Sheep
A distributed screen saver that uses thousands of computers over the Internet to build beautiful images.

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Battle for Wesnoth
A turn-based strategy game about the struggle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth.

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Neverball
An exciting action and puzzle game in which you navigate a ball through a course.

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Sokoban YASC
A simple but challenging puzzle game.

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SuperTux
A classic arcade game.

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# Utility Software

7-Zip
A simple and effective file compression and extraction utility, with support for many formats and can be used to combine separate files.

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Workrave
An utility help you take breaks and perform exercises when working at the computer.

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KeePass
A simple place to securely save passwords.

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Eraser
An utility to securely delete sensitive data from your computer.

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VeraCrypt
An utility to securely encrypt sensitive data on your computer.

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PuTTY
An SSH and Telnet network communication utility.

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GTK+
The base libraries required for some software such as the GIMP.

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