software

Navigation
computing: software

Issues

 * Dangers of (should this section be in computing?)
 * The Risks Digest: Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
 * An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents (see also )
 * History's Worst Software Bugs
 * Design
 * Newish Developments
 * Morfik: "web applications unplugged"

Types
types of software
 * Applications
 * Accounting
 * GnuCash
 * Intuit, Inc.: QuickBooks, Quicken
 * KMyMoney
 * MyPhpMoney
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Cyc
 * Audio
 * Ampache: web-based audio file manager/player
 * Moosic: A musical jukebox program for CLI-oriented people; also can be used as a backend
 * Credit Card Processing (see also Services)
 * PTC
 * data recovery software
 * Database (Clients)
 * FormTool
 * Microsoft Access
 * Digital Video Recording
 * MythTV (wiki): open-source DVR
 * Email Clients
 * Eudora
 * Evolution
 * kmail
 * Mozilla Thunderbird
 * Mutt
 * Email Storage Management
 * Dbmail
 * Feed Readers (RSS, Atom)
 * Akregator
 * Financial
 * KMyMoney
 * Image Editors
 * GIMP
 * Pixel: inexpensive proprietary cross-platform Photoshop-like image editor
 * 3D Image Editors: renderers, modeling, etc.
 * Art of Illusion
 * POV-Ray
 * Internet (clients)
 * Azureus: torrent peer
 * X-Chat: IRC client
 * Personal Data Organizers
 * hnb (hierarchical notebook)
 * TreeLine (Linux, Windows)
 * Printing Utilities
 * gLabels
 * Database Engines (Servers)
 * Firebird
 * Microsoft SQL Server
 * MySQL
 * PostgreSQL
 * emulators
 * file managers
 * games
 * Soldat wiki
 * genealogy uses a lot of software
 * operating systems
 * Linux
 * Windows 98
 * Compatibility Layers: see Emulators
 * Components
 * Enlightenment (aka E)
 * KDE
 * Sane-net
 * Special-Purpose
 * m0n0wall: network firewall/router on a LiveCD
 * speech recognition
 * utilities
 * backup software
 * web browsers
 * web software (server-side)
 * content management systems
 * groupware
 * photo gallery (lets you post and organize photos on your web site):
 * Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery (eSPG) v2.0
 * Gallery: web-based photo gallery
 * database admin
 * phpMyAdmin
 * financial
 * MyPhpMoney
 * social networking
 * PHPizabi: open-source, but license is more restrictive than GNU GPL
 * webcomic automation
 * phpComic
 * Walrus 3: site under reconstruction, no downloads available
 * wiki
 * MediaWiki
 * VoIP
 * Asterisk PBX

Data Formats

 * Media
 * WavPack
 * RealAudio
 * Data
 * YAML: "...data serialization format designed for human readability..."
 * Internet
 * Services
 * IRC

Discussion

 * FreeDesktop Wiki: discussion of open-source X-Window System Desktops

Projects

 * FreshMeat: "the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software." Mostly open-source.
 * SourceForge: "the world's largest Open Source software development web site"

To Be Categorized

 * PHP Free Chat looks to be a non-standard protocol (though "based on IRC") open-source chat server and (web-based) client