The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!
Please report broken links or suggest new free and open source software for Windows by issuing a pull request.
Cheers,
Bart Vandewoestyne
Audio editing tools
Tag tools:
Business Software
CAD software and Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
CAD
Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Calendar Software
CD Writing
Compression/ZIP
Databases
Desktop Environments & Windows shell replacements
Dictionaries
Drivers/Hardware
Educational
Emulators
Atari:
DOS:
GameCube + Wii
IA-32
Nintendo Switch
Sega Master System:
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
PowerPC
Sega Genesis / Sega CD / Sega 32X:
Sega Dreamcast:
Sega Saturn:
Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
ZX Specrum
Other
- QEMU [GNU GPL/GNU LGPL/MIT/BSD]
Encyclopedia
Filesharing
- MLdonkey GUI's:
- WASTE [GNU GPL]
Ares
BitTorrent
Direct Connect:
HeavyMole
IRC:
Kazaa/Fasttrack:
MUTE
NetMess:
OpenFT:
OpenNap/Napster:
Soulseek:
Others:
FTP clients
Firewall & NAT
Firewall:
NAT:
File systems (drivers)
Games
See this separate page and don't hesitate to
organise the first Open-Source-Games-Only LAN-party in your neighbourghood!
Games
GPS:
Graphics
2D animation:
3D modeling, animation and rendering:
Image editors:
Image viewers:
Paint-alike programs:
Vector graphics:
Instant Messaging
Internet Voice chat
SIP VoIP:
IRC clients
Mail & News
Accessing HTTPMail services like Hotmail, Yahoo,... (I need testers for this software, please mail me your experiences!)
- YahooPOPs! [GNU GPL]
- HotPOP3 [GNU GPL]
- FreePOPs [GNU GPL]
- MrPostman [GNU GPL] (Note: has been reported not to work with the current HotMail system...)
- jHTTPMail [GNU LGPL] (how to use this??? is it a library ???)
- HTTPMail [GNU LGPL] (how to use this??? is it a library???)
- Blue HTTPMail [zlib/libpng License] (How to use this???)
Anti-Spam
Media Players (audio)
Media Players (video)
Media Players (codecs)
Networking tools
NTP clients
Office tools
Operating Systems
PostScript viewers
- Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview:
Programming
Ada:
Assembler:
Basic:
C:
Delphi:
Eiffel:
Fortran:
GUI prototyping:
Haskell:
Java:
Lua:
Mercury:
.NET
Pascal:
Perl:
PHP:
Prolog
Python:
Ruby:
Rust:
Scheme:
IDE's:
Debuggers:
Installer systems:
CVS:
Subversion:
Git:
Decompilers and Reverse Engineering:
GUI toolkits
Computer Graphics libraries
- SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) [GNU LGPL]
- Little cms [GNU LGPL]
- Mesa3D [MIT-style license]
- G3D [BSD]
- VTK (The Visualization Toolkit) [Other/Proprietary License???]
Libraries
Modeling tools:
Profiling:
Remote access
Sciences and Math
Mathematics:
Biology:
Geographic Information Systems:
Maybe there's more on the FreeGIS site, if you find stuff, please report it.
General:
Security, Privacy, Protection,...
Server software
CVS:
DHCP:
DNS:
FTP servers:
Identd:
Jabber servers:
Java/XML application server
Mail and News:
Webservers:
Napster servers:
NFS servers:
SSH-servers:
Other:
SCP (SecureCoPy) clients
Stream Downloaders
Text editors
Utilities
Backup:
Uninstall and cleanup:
System tools:
Checksumming:
base64 encoding/decoding:
Data recovery:
Disk utilities:
Disk cloning:
Grep-alike tools
Mobile phone utilities:
Notes:
Photo album software:
Printing:
Shells:
Diff and merge utilities:
Desktop enhancements:
To be classified:
Video capture/processing
VJ Software
Web browsers
Webcam
Web editors
Webgrabbers and Download Managers
X-servers
Others
More Open Source Software for Windows at:
More info about Open Source Software and the philosophy behind it can be
found at:
Last Update: December 23st, 2016