Friday, 28 July 2017

Open-source software

Open-source software 

Open-source software is computer software that is available free of cost at internet any one download  its source code  with a license.
 It's copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone  for any purpose.
Open-source software is developed in a cooperation public manner.

 Programmers and developers shared software source code  to learn from each other in  field of computing. In 1970-1980  Eric Raymond published The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a reflective analysis of the hacker community a free software. This  paper received in early 1998,after that Netscape Communications Corporation to release their popular Netscape Communicator Internet suite as free software. and other open source code software publish SeaMonkey, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and KompoZer.

The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) definition is recognized by governments internationally as the standard . In addition, many of the world's largest open source software projects and contributors, including Debian, Drupal Association, FreeBSD Foundation, Linux Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Wordpress Foundation have committed to upholding the OSI's mission and Open Source Definition through the OSI Affiliate Agreement.

Open-source software licensing
open-source licenses may have some restrictions, particularly regarding the expression of respect to the origin of software.

A free software license
Open-source license criteria focuses on the availability of the source code and the ability to modify and share it, while free software licenses focuses on the user's freedom to use the program, to modify it, and to share it

Some Open-source software and download link with screen shot

Magento


Magento is a Flexible, Open Source Commerce Platform for Developers and Small Businesses.

https://magento.com/products/open-source



Mozilla Firefox


Firefox doesn’t sell access to your personal information like other companies. From privacy tools to tracking protection, you’re in charge of who sees what.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/



Mozilla Thunderbird


Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/



FileZilla


FileZilla®, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Support is available through our forums, the wiki and the bug and feature request trackers.
https://filezilla-project.org/


GnuCash


GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
http://www.gnucash.org/



Audacity


Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu
https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/



GIMP


This is the official website of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes.
Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.
https://www.gimp.org/




OpenOffice


12 October 2016: The Apache OpenOffice project announces the official release of version 4.1.3. In the Release Notes you can read about all new bugfixes, improvements and languages. Don't miss to download the new release and find out yourself.
http://www.openoffice.org/




VLC


VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/



Handbrake


HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

Reasons you’ll love HandBrake:

Convert video from nearly any format
Free and Open Source
Multi-Platform (Windows, Mac and Linux)
https://handbrake.fr/


Notepad++


Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License.

Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
 https://notepad-plus-plus.org/






7-Zip


Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
Self-extracting capability for 7z format
Integration with Windows Shell
Powerful File Manager
Powerful command line version
Plugin for FAR Manager
Localizations for 87 languages
http://www.7-zip.org/


Blender


Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
https://www.blender.org/

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