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awesome-oss

A list of open source projects with links to contribute or donate.

This list is a work in progress. I'm sure I'm missing many great projects. Feel free to send a pull request (just make sure it has a contribution/donation/both link)!

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Contents

Audio Editors

  • Audacity - cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing
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Audio Players

  • Clementine - modern music player and library organizer
    Contribute
  • MPD - free and open music player server
    Contribute
  • OooPlayer - Lightweight music player for Windows
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  • Rhythmbox - integrated music management application
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Documents

  • Etherpad - web-based collaborative real-time editor
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  • Evince - document viewer for multiple document formats
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  • LibreOffice - office suite
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  • Sumatra PDF - free and open-source document viewer
    Contribute

Developer Tools

  • Ansible - radically simple IT automation platform
    Contribute
  • ConEmu - free and open-source tabbed terminal emulator for Windows
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  • Flutter - mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android
    Contribute
  • Fossil - simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system
    Contribute
  • Git - distributed version control system
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  • GitLab - web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
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  • Mosh - remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
    Contribute
  • Node-RED - programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways
    Contribute
  • PuTTy - free and open-source terminal emulator
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  • Rancher - a complete container management platform
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  • VirtualBox - free and open-source hypervisor
    Contribute

Email

  • Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems
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  • Mail-in-a-box - one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server
    Contribute
  • Mailu - simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images
    Contribute
  • Mutt - text-based mail client for Unix operating systems
    Contribute
  • NeoMutt - command line mail reader
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Foundations/Organizations

  • Apache Software Foundation - non-profit corporation to support Apache software project
    Donate
  • Blender Foundation - nonprofit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D content-creation program
    Donate
  • The Document Foundation - non-profit organization that promotes open-source document handling software
    Donate
  • Django Software Foundation - non-profit organization to promote, support, and advance the Django Web framework
    Donate
  • Eclipse Foundation not-for-profit corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse
    Donate
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation - international non-profit digital rights group
    Donate
  • Free Software Foundation - non-profit organization to support the free software movement
    Donate
  • GNOME Foundation - non-profit organization that coordinates the efforts in the GNOME project
    Donate
  • Internet Archive - non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 306 billion archived web pages
    Donate
  • JS Foundation - supports some of the most important projects in the JavaScript ecosystem
    Donate
  • KDE e.V. - non-profit organization that represents the KDE community in the legal and financial entities
    Donate
  • Mozilla Foundation - non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project
    Donate
  • Open Source Initiative - non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software
    Donate
  • Open Whisper Systems - organization that focuses on the development of the Signal Protocol
    Donate
  • OpenBSD Foundation - non-for-profit corporation, supporting OpenBSD and related projects
    Donate
  • OpenStreetMap Foundation - not-for-profit company which supports the OpenStreetMap project
    Donate
  • Perl Foundation - non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Perl through discussion, collaboration, design, and code
    Donate
  • Python Software Foundation - non-profit organization devoted to the Python programming language
    Donate
  • Ruby Central - non-profit organization dedicated to support and advocacy for the Ruby programming language
    Donate
  • Software Freedom Conservancy - not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects
    Donate
  • Tor Project - not-for-profit organization that is responsible for maintaining software for the Tor anonymity network
    Donate
  • VideoLAN - non-profit organization that develops and promotes open-source multimedia solutions
    Donate
  • Wikimedia Foundation - a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge
    Donate
  • X.Org Foundation - non-profit corporation chartered to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack
    Donate

FTP Clients

  • Cyberduck - client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage
    Contribute Donate
  • FileZilla - cross-platform FTP application
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  • WinSCP - SFTP, FTP, WebDAV and SCP client for Microsoft Windows
    Contribute Donate

Graphics

  • Blender - 3D Creation Software
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  • Caesium Image Compressor - advanced compression tool for photos and images (JPG, PNG, GIF)
    Contribute Donate
  • GIMP - raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks
    Contribute Donate
  • ImageMagick - software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files
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  • Inkscape - vector graphics editor
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  • Krita - raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and animation purpose
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  • LibreCAD - Computer-aided design application for 2D design
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  • Pinta - program for drawing and image editing
    Contribute

Multimedia

  • Kodi - media player software application
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  • Media Player Classic - light-weight media player for Windows
    Contribute
  • MPlayer - media player software
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  • SMPlayer - cross-platform graphical front-end for MPlayer
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  • VLC - cross-platform multimedia player and framework
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Networking

  • Apache - cross-platform web server software
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  • FreeNAS - Network Attached Storage software
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  • LEDE Project - fork of OpenWRT
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  • Let's Encrypt - free, automated, and open Certificate Authority
    Contribute Donate
  • Nextcloud - self-hosted file sync and share and communication app platform
    Contribute Donate
  • Nginx - HTTP and mail proxy server
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  • Nmap - Security Scanner, Port Scanner, & Network Exploration Tool
    Contribute
  • OpenNIC - user owned and controlled Network Information Center; alternative DNS network
    Contribute Donate
  • OpenSSH - a suite of security-related network-level utilities based on the Secure Shell protocol
    Contribute Donate
  • OpenWRT - project for embedded operating system based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic
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  • ownCloud - self-hosted file sync and share app platform
    Contribute
  • Remmina - feature rich Remote Desktop Application
    Contribute Donate
  • sshuttle - Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
    Contribute
  • Syncthing - peer-to-peer file synchronization
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  • Tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
    Contribute
  • WireGuard - fast, modern and secure VPN tunnel
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  • Wireshark - packet analyzer
    Contribute

OS/Distributions

  • Android-X86 - an unofficial initiative to port Google's Android mobile operating system to run on devices powered by AMD and Intel x86 processors
    Contribute Donate
  • Arch Linux - a lightweight and flexible Linux distribution
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  • CentOS - a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform functionally compatible with its upstream source
    Contribute Donate
  • Debian - a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software
    Contribute Donate
  • Fedora - a Linux distriibution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat
    Contribute Donate
  • FreeBSD - free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from Research Unix via the Berkeley Software Distribution
    Contribute Donate
  • Kubuntu - an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop
    Contribute Donate
  • LineageOS - successor to the popular CyanogenMod ROM
    Contribute Donate
  • Linux - an operating system kernel released by Linus Torvalds
    Contribute Donate
  • Linux Mint - a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu
    Contribute Donate
  • NixOS - Purely Functional Linux Distribution
    Contribute Donate
  • OpenBSD - Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution
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  • openSUSE - a Linux-based project and distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies
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  • postmarketOS - a Linux-Based, LTS OS For Android Phones
    Contribute Donate
  • Slackware - The oldest maintained Linux distribution geared towards power and stability
    Contribute Donate
  • Ubuntu Linux - a Linux distribution based on the Debian architecture
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  • Xubuntu - an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the XFCE desktop environment
    Contribute Donate

Other

  • AWStats - free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically
    Contribute Donate
  • Common Voice - open and publicly available dataset of voices
    Contribute Donate
  • FreedomBox - a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications
    Contribute Donate
  • GnuPG - encrypt and sign data and communication
    Contribute Donate
  • Huginn - a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online
    Contribute Donate
  • MediaWiki - wiki software
    Contribute Donate
  • MyCroft - Voice Assistant
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  • OpenSSL - project that provides a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for TLS & SSL
    Contribute
  • OpenStreetMap - collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world
    Contribute Donate
  • Radicale - CalDAV and CardDAV Server
    Contribute
  • Stockfish Chess - UCI chess engine
    Contribute
  • VeraCrypt - disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux
    Contribute Donate
  • Yacy - P2P Search Engine
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  • ZoneMinder - state-of-the-art video surveillance software system
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Password Managers

Social

  • Mastodon - social network server
    Contribute Donate
  • Matrix - open network for secure, decentralized communication
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  • Pidgin - a universal instant messaging (IM) program
    Contribute Donate
  • HexChat - IRC client based on XChat
    Contribute Donate
  • Rocket.Chat - the ultimate webchat platform
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  • Talk - alternative to Disqus
    Contribute
  • WeeChat - fast, light and extensible chat client
    Contribute Donate

Text Editors

  • Atom - a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron,
    Contribute
  • Code::Blocks - cross-platform IDE that supports multiple compilers including GCC, Clang and Visual C++
    Contribute Donate
  • Emacs (GNU) - extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
    Contribute Donate
  • Kate Editor - a text editor developed by the KDE free software community
    Contribute Donate
  • Lime Text - API-compatible alternative to the text editor Sublime Text
    Contribute
  • Nano - a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface
    Contribute Donate
  • Vim - a greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi
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  • Visual Studio Code - a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications
    Contribute

Video Software

  • Avidemux - video editing program designed for video editing and video processing
    Contribute
  • HandBrake - a GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
    Contribute
  • KdenLive - a video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt
    Contribute Donate
  • Open Broadcaster Software - streaming and recording program maintained by the OBS Project
    Contribute Donate
  • OpenShot Video Editor - a video editor for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows
    Contribute Donate
  • VirtualDub - free video tool for basic editing and encoding, including batch processing, mainly geared to AVI files
    Contribute

Web Browsers

  • Chromium - an open-source web browser project started by Google
    Contribute
  • Midori - A lightweight browser using the WebKit rendering engine
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  • Mozilla Firefox - web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
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  • NetSurf - web browser which uses its own layout engine
    Contribute
  • PaleMoon - web browser with an emphasis on customizability
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  • QupZilla - a lightweight multiplatform web browser written in Qt Framework and using its web rendering engine QtWebEngine
    Contribute Donate
  • qutebrowser - a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
    Contribute
  • SeaMonkey - Internet suite
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  • Tor Browser - a version of Mozilla Firefox that has been modified by the Tor Project for enhanced security and privacy
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  • Uzbl - a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy
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