software

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Related Articles

• programming (a.k.a. software development)
  • software design

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 Wikipedia)
  • 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
    • 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-sharing
    • 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