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System related [http://freeopensourcesoftware.org Free Open Source Software] consists mainly of the underlying non-user facing components - the operating systems, middleware, and utilities. The following system software is all FOSS, in most cases the result of at least a decade of continual development and improvement.
This page collects good FOSS system software – operating system, middleware, utilities – everything not [[Applications|applications]].  Please make sure software you add has current development and user communities – any size, just current!  If software that meets this threshold later falls out of use, please keep it on the list for historical and reuse purposes, with the label (Not Current).
 


== Automation ==
== Automation ==
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* [http://controltier.org/ ControlTier]
* [http://controltier.org/ ControlTier]


* [http://www.puppetlabs.com/ Puppet]
* [http://www.puppetlabs.com/ Puppet] – automated installation, configuration, management, etc.


== Backup ==
== Backup ==


* [[Amanda]]
* [[Amanda]] – most widely used FOSS backup software.


* [[Bacula]]
* [[Bacula]] – second most widely used FOSS backup software.


== Bug Tracking & Management ==
== Bug Tracking & Management ==


* [http://www.bugzilla.org/ BugZilla] - Heritage back to the old Mozilla Netscape days.
* [http://www.bugzilla.org/ BugZilla] – standard FOSS bug management app, traces its heritage back to Mozilla Netscape.


* [http://entomologist-project.org/ Entomologist] - Coordination of multiple bug trackers.
* [http://entomologist–project.org/ Entomologist] – coordination of multiple bug trackers.


== Caching ==
== Caching ==


* [http://memcached.org/ Memcached] - Memory caching
* [http://memcached.org/ Memcached] – memory caching.
 
== Certificates – Digital, SSL ==
 
* [http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page Dogtag] – enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA), hardened by real-world deployments, supporting OCSP, smartcards, and more.
 
* [https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa easy-rsa] – OpenVPN utility to build and manage a PKI CA, create a root certificate authority, and request and sign certificates, including sub-CAs,
 
* [http://www.ejbca.org/ EJBCA] – Certificate Authority and OCSP support, using Java, high performance, highly scalable, platform independent.
 
* [https://pki.openca.org/ OpenCA] – robust, out-of-the-box Certification Authority with full-strength cryptography, based on openLDAP, OpenSSL, Apache Project, and Apache mod_ssl.
 
* [https://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL] – robust, commercial-grade, toolkit implementing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1), and a full cryptography library.
 
* [http://r509.org/ r509] – Ruby gem using OpenSSL for creation of signed certificates, CSRs, and revocation (CRL/OCSP), for full RFC 3280/5280 certificate authority enterprise use.
 
* [https://github.com/glennie/tinyca2 TinyCA2] – fork of the no longer maintained TinyCA, manages a certification authority and x509 certificates as a frontend to OpenSSL, including subCAs for more complex setups.
 
* [http://xca.sourceforge.net/ XCA] – for creating and managing X.509 certificates, certificate requests, RSA, DSA and EC private keys, Smartcards, CRLs, and sub-CAs.


== Cloud Computing ==
== Cloud Computing ==


* See [[Cloud Computing]]
* [http://cloudstack.org/ Cloud Stack]
 
* [http://open.eucalyptus.com/ Eucalyptus]
 
* [http://www.eyeos.org/ eyeOS] – Cloud operating system.
 
* [http://www.nimbusproject.org/ Nimbus]
 
* [http://www.opennebula.org/ OpenNebula]
 
* [http://openstack.org/ OpenStack] – original FOSS cloud IaaS project.
 
* [http://www.openvirtualizationalliance.org Open Virtualization Alliance]
 
* [http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/ Reservoir]
 
== Cloud Management ==
 
* [http://deltacloud.apache.org/ Deltacloud] – an abstract cloud management layer.
 
* [https://juju.ubuntu.com/ Juju] – management of cloud services (from Canonical/Ubuntu).
 
* [http://www.jclouds.org/ jclouds] – abstracts multiple cloud API's with Java.
 
* [http://libcloud.apache.org Libcloud] – a library that abstracts multiple cloud API's.


== Collaboration Server ==
== Collaboration Server ==
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== Compression ==
== Compression ==


* [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip]
* [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip] – standard gzip, zip, other compression.


== Configuration Management ==  
== Configuration Management ==  


* [http://git-scm.com/ Git] - developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
* [http://git-scm.com/ Git] – highly scalable, developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
* [[Subversion]]
 
* [[Subversion]] – one of the first FOSS CM apps.
 
== Cross Language Development ==
 
* [http://twitter.github.com/finagle/ Finagle] – Twitter network stack for the JVM to build asynchronous RPC clients and servers in any JVM hosted language.
 
* [http://thrift.apache.org/ Thrift] – [[Apache_Software_Foundation|Apache]] project to define data-types and services across programming languages.


== Databases ==  
== Databases ==  
* [http://drizzle.org Drizzle] – MySQL fork.


* [http://druid.sourceforge.net/ Druid]
* [http://druid.sourceforge.net/ Druid]


* [http://mariadb.org/ MariaDB] - MySQL replacement.
* [http://hbase.apache.org/ HBase] – Hadoop's very high scalability distributed database from [[Apache_Software_Foundation|Apache]].
 
* [http://hypertable.org/ HyperTable] – very high scalability Hadoop compatible distributed database.
 
* [http://mariadb.org/ MariaDB] – MySQL replacement.


* [http://www.membrane-soa.org/ Membrane SOA Registry] - A registry for SOA services.
* [http://www.membrane-soa.org/ Membrane SOA Registry] – a registry for SOA services.


* [http://www.mongodb.org/ MongoDB] - Scalable NoSQL database.
* [http://www.mongodb.org/ MongoDB] – scalable NoSQL database.


* [[MySQL]] - Popular relational database
* [[MySQL]] – popular relational database.


* [[PostgreSQL]] - Enterprise relational database.
* [[PostgreSQL]] – standard FOSS enterprise relational database, very highly scalable.


* [http://hbase.apache.org/ HBase] - Hadoop's very high scalability distributed database from [[Apache_Software_Foundation|Apache]].
* [http://neo4j.org/ Neo4j] – high-performance, NOSQL graph database.


* [http://hypertable.org/ HyperTable] - Very high scalability Hadoop compatible distributed database.
* [http://www.mcobject.com/perst Perst] – object oriented embedded database.


* [http://ravendb.net/ RavenDB] - Document database.
* [http://ravendb.net/ RavenDB] – document database.


* [http://basho.com/ Redis] - In-memory key value data store.
* [http://basho.com/ Redis] – in-memory key value data store.


* [http://basho.com/ Riak] - Fault tolerant distributed database.
* [http://basho.com/ Riak] – fault tolerant distributed database.


* [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] - Light-weight relational database.
* [http://www.sqlite.org/ SQLite] – light-weight relational database.


* [http://www.project-voldemort.com/ Voldemort] - Distributed database.
* [http://www.project-voldemort.com/ Voldemort] – distributed database.


* [http://zookeeper.apache.org/ ZooKeeper] - [[Apache_Software_Foundation|Apache]] configuration data database.
* [http://zookeeper.apache.org/ ZooKeeper] – [[Apache_Software_Foundation|Apache]] configuration data database.


== Database Management ==
== Database Management ==
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* [http://www.adminer.org/ Adminer]
* [http://www.adminer.org/ Adminer]


* [http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ phpMyAdmin]
* [http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ phpMyAdmin] – one of the first GUI tools for DB management.


== Data-Center Management ==
== Data-Center Management ==


* [http://www.cfengine.org/ Cfengine]
* [http://www.cfengine.org/ Cfengine]
* [http://opencompute.org/ Open Compute] – scalable and environmental data centers, started by [http://Facebook.com FaceBook].


* [http://www.openqrm.com/ OpenQRM]
* [http://www.openqrm.com/ OpenQRM]
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== Development ==
== Development ==


* [http://rubyonrails.org/ Ruby on Rails] - Web development
* [http://directwebremoting.org/dwr/index.html DWR] – Ajax Java library.
 
* [http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ Bootstrap] – Twitter framework for web development.
 
* [https://github.com/aptana/Jaxer/wiki Jaxar] – Ajax server.
 
* [http://rubyonrails.org/ Ruby on Rails] – supports very rapid web development.
 
* [http://yuilibrary.com/ YUI] – JavaScript library for development web applications, from Yahoo.
 
* [http://www.freepascal.org FreePascal] – A FOSS Pascal editor/compiler like Turbo Pascal that runs on multiple operating systems (Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X/iOS/Darwin/DOS/Windows ...) and architectures (Intel x86, AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, and ARM).
 
* [http://lazarus.freepascal.org Lazarus] – Lazarus is a GUI editor like Delphi and uses the FreePascal Compiler. Write once compile anywhere.


== Directory Services ==
== Directory Services ==


* [http://www.openldap.org/ OpenLDAP]
* [http://www.openldap.org/ OpenLDAP] – standard FOSS Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) solution.


== Disk Partitioning ==
== Disk Partitioning ==
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* [http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ GParted]
* [http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ GParted]


== Distributed Computing ==
== Distributed Computing (High Scalability) ==


Distributed sever management tools for very high scalability.
* [http://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra] – distributed data replication and fault tolerance.


* [http://cassandra.apache.org/ Cassandra] - Data replication and fault tolerance.
* [http://hadoop.apache.org/ Hadoop] – processing of very large data sets across many computers.


* [http://hadoop.apache.org/ Hadoop] - Processing of very large data sets across many computers.
* [http://incubator.apache.org/mesos/ Mesos] – application resource management across clusters.


* [http://incubator.apache.org/mesos/ Mesos] - Application resource management across clusters
* [http://www.spark-project.org/ Spark] – high scalability distributed data analytics.


* [http://www.spark-project.org/ Spark] - High scalability data analytics
* [http://storm-project.net/ Storm] – distributed very large data set processing.
 
* [http://storm-project.net/ Storm] - Distributed very large data set processing


== Domain Name System (DNS) ==
== Domain Name System (DNS) ==


* [[BIND]] - runs the Internet.
* [[BIND]] – manages the relationships between domain names and IP addresses, pretty much runs the Internet.


== Drivers ==
== Drivers ==


* [http://www.linuxdriverproject.org Linux drivers]
* [http://www.linuxdriverproject.org Linux drivers] – drivers for printers, scanners, and other hardware devices for Linux operating systems.


== Email ==
== Email ==


* [http://www.clamav.net/ ClamAV]
* [http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ Davmail] – Microsoft Exchange connector for almost any client.


* [http://www.nuclearelephant.com/ DSPAM]
* [http://www.dovecot.org/ Dovecot] – standard FOSS email server with IMAP, POP3 support.


* [http://www.dovecot.org/ Dovecot]
* [http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/ DSPAM] – content-based adaptive spam filter for multi-user enterprise systems.


* [http://www.postfix.org/ Postfix]
* [http://www.opendkim.org/ OpenDKIM] – DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) sender authentication system (RFC6376), includes Author Domain Signing Practises (ADSP, RFC5617), Vouch By Reference (VBR, RFC5518), and Authorized Third Party Signatures protocol (ATPS, RFC6541).
 
* [http://www.postfix.org/ Postfix] – standard FOSS Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).
 
== File Encryption ==
 
* [https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/  End-to-End] – email encryption plugin for Chrome web browser.
 
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeotfe.mirror/ FreeOTFE] – old FOSS on-the-fly disk file encryption.
 
* [http://www.truecrypt.org/ TrueCrypt]


== Enterprise Service Bus ==
== Enterprise Service Bus ==
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== Fax ==
== Fax ==


* [http://www.hylafax.org/ HylaFax]
* [http://www.hylafax.org/ HylaFax] – fax send, receive, route to email.
 
== File Encryption ==
 
* [http://www.freeotfe.org/ FreeOTFE]
 
* [http://www.truecrypt.org/ TrueCrypt]


== File Synchronization ==
== File Synchronization ==
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== File Systems ==
== File Systems ==


* [http://www.ceph.com Ceph] - Distributed object store and file system
* [http://www.ceph.com Ceph] – distributed object store and file system.


== FTP ==
== File Transfer Protocol (FTP) ==


* [http://cyberduck.ch/ CyberDuck]
* [http://cyberduck.ch/ CyberDuck]
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== Groupware Synchronization ==
== Groupware Synchronization ==


* [http://syncevolution.org/ SyncEvolution] - For synchronizing Evolution calendar, contacts, notes, tasks.
* [http://syncevolution.org/ SyncEvolution] – synchronizing with Evolution email / calendar / contacts app.


== Messaging Systems ==
== Messaging Systems ==


* [http://www.rabbitmq.com/ RabitMQ] - Application messaging.
* [http://www.rabbitmq.com/ RabitMQ] – application messaging.


== Multimedia ==
== Multimedia ==


* [http://code.google.com/p/red5/ Red5 server] - Flash emulator.
* [http://code.google.com/p/red5/ Red5 server] – flash video emulator.


* [http://www.tizen.org/ Tizen] - device API for HTML5.
* [http://www.tizen.org/ Tizen] – device API for HTML5.


* [http://xbmc.org/ XMBC]
* [http://xbmc.org/ XBMC]


== Natural Language Processing (NLP) ==
== Natural Language Processing (NLP) ==
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== Networking ==
== Networking ==


* [http://linuxwireless.org/ Linux Wireless] - IEEE-802.11 subsystem.
* [http://linuxwireless.org/ Linux Wireless] – IEEE-802.11 subsystem.
 
* [http://nodejs.org/ node.js] – JavaScript for scalable network programming.


* [http://nodejs.org/ node.js] - scalable network programming.
* [http://www.opendaylight.org/ OpenDayLight] – software defined networking (SDN).


* [http://www.samba.org/ Samba] - Microsoft Windows networking
* [http://www.samba.org/ Samba] – connection of Linux and Microsoft Windows networking, file systems, printers.


== Network Management ==
== Network Management ==


* [http://www.nagios.org/ Nagios] - monitoring and alerting.
* [http://www.nagios.org/ Nagios] – standard FOSS monitoring and alerting software.


* [[Hyperic HQ]]
* [[Hyperic HQ]]
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== Network Monitoring ==
== Network Monitoring ==


* [http://www.wireshark.org/ WireShark] - packet inspection.
* [http://www.wireshark.org/ WireShark] – IP network packet inspection.


== Operating Systems ==  
== Operating Systems ==  


* [[Linux]]
* [http://www.contiki-os.org/ Contiki] – lightweight OS for the "Internet of things".
 
* [[Linux]] – FOSS version of Unix, now the standard and most widely used server operating system.
 
* [[OpenBSD]] – old Unix variant, uses very open [[BSD License]], record of being extraordinarily secure.


* [[OpenBSD]] - Unix variant.
* [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat] – first commercially supported Linux operating system (1993).


* [[Ubuntu]]
* [https://tails.boum.org/ Tails] – Secure Linux bootable from USB with privacy tools builtin.
 
* [[Ubuntu]] – most widely used FOSS desktop operating system.


== Operating Systems Embedded ==
== Operating Systems Embedded ==
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== Operating System Emulation ==
== Operating System Emulation ==


* [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] - Windows on Linux
* [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] – Windows emulator on Linux, can run some but not all versions of a lot of Windows software.


== Operating System Virtualization ==
== Operating System Virtualization ==
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* [http://www.colinux.org/ CoLinux]
* [http://www.colinux.org/ CoLinux]


* [http://openvz.org/ OpenVZ] - Linux kernel parallelization.
* [http://openvz.org/ OpenVZ] – Linux kernel parallelization.


* [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox]
* [http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox]


== PDF Writers ==
== Password Utilities ==


* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ PDFCreator]
* [http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD] – Win NT 3.5 through Windows 8.1 (GPL)
 
* [http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/ ophcrack] – Windows password cracker using rainbow tables (Apache 2, GPL2)


== Portals ==
== Portals ==


* [http://www.liferay.com/ Liferay]
* [http://www.liferay.com/ Liferay] – mobile content development.


== Proxy Servers ==
== Proxy Servers ==


* [http://nginx.org/ Nginx] - HTTP and reverse proxy server, and mail proxy server.
* [http://nginx.org/ Nginx] – HTTP and reverse proxy server, and mail proxy server.


== Robotics ==  
== Robotics ==  
* [http://www.ros.org/ Robot Operating System]


* [http://www.urbiforge.org/ Urbi]
* [http://www.urbiforge.org/ Urbi]
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== Security Software ==  
== Security Software ==  


* [http://www.kerberos.org/ Kerberos]
* [http://barada.sourceforge.net/ Barada] – two factor password authentication.
 
* [http://www.kerberos.org/ Kerberos] – standard FOSS software for secure authentication of users and software.
 
* [http://web.monkeysphere.info/ monkeysphere] – management of networks of trust.


* [http://nmap.org/ nmap]
* [http://nmap.org/ nmap]


* [[OpenVPN]]
* [[OpenVPN]] – standard FOSS software for virtual private networks.


* [http://www.yassl.com/ CyaSSL]
* [http://www.yassl.com/ CyaSSL] – certificates.


== Smartphones ==
== Smartphones ==


* [http://www.android.com/ Android] - from Google.
* [http://www.android.com/ Android] – standard FOSS smartphone software from Google.


* [http://funambol.org/ Funambol] - integration engine.
* [http://funambol.org/ Funambol] – standard FOSS smartphone system and software communications integration software.


== Spam and Anti-Virus Protection ==
== Spam and Anti-Virus Protection ==
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* [http://assp.sourceforge.net/ ASSP]
* [http://assp.sourceforge.net/ ASSP]


* [http://www.clamav.net/ ClamAV]
* [http://www.clamav.net/ ClamAV] – standard FOSS anti-virus tool, mainly used to clean Windows viruses from email passing through.
 
* [http://www.clamwin.com/ ClamWin] – ClamAV version for Windows computers.
 
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dkim-milter/ dkim-milter] – legitimate email authentication support.


* [http://www.clamwin.com/ ClamWin]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dk-milter/ domainkeys-milter] – legitimate email authentication support.


* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dkim-milter/ dkim-milter]
* [http://www.nuclearelephant.com/ DSPAM] – standard FOSS spam blocking software.


* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dk-milter/ domainkeys-milter]
== Statistics ==
 
* [https://github.com/etsy/statsd/wiki StatsD] – front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics and graphing server.


== Storage Management ==
== Storage Management ==


* [http://www.freenas.org/ FreeNAS]
* [http://www.freenas.org/ FreeNAS] – Network Attached Storage (NAS) management.


* [http://www.gluster.org/ Gluster]
* [http://www.gluster.org/ Gluster]
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* [https://nimbus.io/ Nimbus.IO]
* [https://nimbus.io/ Nimbus.IO]


* [http://www.openfiler.com/ OpenFiler] - NAS and SAN storage appliance
* [http://www.openfiler.com/ OpenFiler] – NAS and SAN storage appliance.


== System Cloning ==
== System Cloning ==
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== System Integration ==
== System Integration ==


* [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home Chef]
* [http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home Chef] – automation of application management and configuration.


== Systems Management ==
== Systems Management ==


* [http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ Spacewalk]
* [http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ Spacewalk] – Linux content provisioning and monitoring.


* [http://zookeeper.apache.org/ ZooKeeper] - centralized maintenance of system configuration data, Apache project
* [http://www.sysdig.org/ sysdig] – capture and analyze Linux instance state information.
 
* [http://zookeeper.apache.org/ ZooKeeper] – centralized maintenance of system configuration data, Apache project.


== Testing ==
== Testing ==


* [https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki Chaos Monkey] - random process termination (Netflix release)
* [https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki Chaos Monkey] – random process termination testing (from Netflix).
 
* [http://funkload.nuxeo.org/ Funkload] – web application testing.
 
* [http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/ HtmlUnit] – GUI-less web emulator for testing from Java.
 
* [http://twitter.github.com/iago/ Iago] – load generator for performance testing.
 
* [http://seleniumhq.org/ Selenium] – automated web testing.
 
* [http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ StressLinux] – hardware stress testing.
 
* [https://github.com/twitter/zipkin Zipkin] – web service response time profiling.
 
* [http://watir.com/ Watir] – Ruby libraries for web testing ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watir#Similar_tools other languages]).


* [http://twitter.github.com/iago/ Iago] - Load generator for performance testing
== Video ==


* [http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ StressLinux] - hardware testing
* [http://www.webmproject.org/ WebM] – an open web media project developing a high-quality, open video format.


* [https://github.com/twitter/zipkin Zipkin] - Web service response time profiling
== Virtual Desktop Servers ==


== Virtual Desktop ==
Also see [http://freeopensourcesoftware.org/index.php?title=Applications#Virtual_Desktop_Clients Virtual Desktop Clients].


* [[FreeNX]] - original.
* [[FreeNX]] – the first NX server built on NoMachine's original FOSS release.


* [http://code.google.com/p/neatx/ neatx] - from Google.
* [http://code.google.com/p/neatx/ neatx] – an NX server from Google.


* [http://remmina.sourceforge.net/ Remmina]
* [http://remmina.sourceforge.net/ Remmina]


* [http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/desktop/spice/ SPICE] - from Redhat.
* [http://www.spice-space.org/ SPICE] – NX software originally developed by Redhat.


* [http://www.x2go.org/ x2go]
* [http://www.x2go.org/ x2go] – X-windows remote access.


== Web Server ==  
== Web Server ==  


* [[Apache Web Server]] - one of the first great open source successes.
* [[Apache Web Server]] – the first and now standard FOSS website server, runs most of the world's websites, provided an early proof of the superior performance and robustness of a FOSS application.


== Wireless ==
== Wireless ==

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This page collects good FOSS system software – operating system, middleware, utilities – everything not applications.  Please make sure software you add has current development and user communities – any size, just current!  If software that meets this threshold later falls out of use, please keep it on the list for historical and reuse purposes, with the label (Not Current).


Automation[edit]

  • Puppet – automated installation, configuration, management, etc.

Backup[edit]

  • Amanda – most widely used FOSS backup software.
  • Bacula – second most widely used FOSS backup software.

Bug Tracking & Management[edit]

  • BugZilla – standard FOSS bug management app, traces its heritage back to Mozilla Netscape.

Caching[edit]

Certificates – Digital, SSL[edit]

  • Dogtag – enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA), hardened by real-world deployments, supporting OCSP, smartcards, and more.
  • easy-rsa – OpenVPN utility to build and manage a PKI CA, create a root certificate authority, and request and sign certificates, including sub-CAs,
  • EJBCA – Certificate Authority and OCSP support, using Java, high performance, highly scalable, platform independent.
  • OpenCA – robust, out-of-the-box Certification Authority with full-strength cryptography, based on openLDAP, OpenSSL, Apache Project, and Apache mod_ssl.
  • OpenSSL – robust, commercial-grade, toolkit implementing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1), and a full cryptography library.
  • r509 – Ruby gem using OpenSSL for creation of signed certificates, CSRs, and revocation (CRL/OCSP), for full RFC 3280/5280 certificate authority enterprise use.
  • TinyCA2 – fork of the no longer maintained TinyCA, manages a certification authority and x509 certificates as a frontend to OpenSSL, including subCAs for more complex setups.
  • XCA – for creating and managing X.509 certificates, certificate requests, RSA, DSA and EC private keys, Smartcards, CRLs, and sub-CAs.

Cloud Computing[edit]

  • eyeOS – Cloud operating system.
  • OpenStack – original FOSS cloud IaaS project.

Cloud Management[edit]

  • Deltacloud – an abstract cloud management layer.
  • Juju – management of cloud services (from Canonical/Ubuntu).
  • jclouds – abstracts multiple cloud API's with Java.
  • Libcloud – a library that abstracts multiple cloud API's.

Collaboration Server[edit]

Compression[edit]

  • 7-Zip – standard gzip, zip, other compression.

Configuration Management[edit]

  • Git – highly scalable, developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

Cross Language Development[edit]

  • Finagle – Twitter network stack for the JVM to build asynchronous RPC clients and servers in any JVM hosted language.
  • ThriftApache project to define data-types and services across programming languages.

Databases[edit]

  • HBase – Hadoop's very high scalability distributed database from Apache.
  • HyperTable – very high scalability Hadoop compatible distributed database.
  • MongoDB – scalable NoSQL database.
  • MySQL – popular relational database.
  • PostgreSQL – standard FOSS enterprise relational database, very highly scalable.
  • Neo4j – high-performance, NOSQL graph database.
  • Perst – object oriented embedded database.
  • Redis – in-memory key value data store.
  • Riak – fault tolerant distributed database.
  • SQLite – light-weight relational database.

Database Management[edit]

  • phpMyAdmin – one of the first GUI tools for DB management.

Data-Center Management[edit]

Development[edit]

  • DWR – Ajax Java library.
  • Bootstrap – Twitter framework for web development.
  • YUI – JavaScript library for development web applications, from Yahoo.
  • FreePascal – A FOSS Pascal editor/compiler like Turbo Pascal that runs on multiple operating systems (Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X/iOS/Darwin/DOS/Windows ...) and architectures (Intel x86, AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, and ARM).
  • Lazarus – Lazarus is a GUI editor like Delphi and uses the FreePascal Compiler. Write once compile anywhere.

Directory Services[edit]

  • OpenLDAP – standard FOSS Light-weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) solution.

Disk Partitioning[edit]

Distributed Computing (High Scalability)[edit]

  • Cassandra – distributed data replication and fault tolerance.
  • Hadoop – processing of very large data sets across many computers.
  • Mesos – application resource management across clusters.
  • Spark – high scalability distributed data analytics.
  • Storm – distributed very large data set processing.

Domain Name System (DNS)[edit]

  • BIND – manages the relationships between domain names and IP addresses, pretty much runs the Internet.

Drivers[edit]

  • Linux drivers – drivers for printers, scanners, and other hardware devices for Linux operating systems.

Email[edit]

  • Davmail – Microsoft Exchange connector for almost any client.
  • Dovecot – standard FOSS email server with IMAP, POP3 support.
  • DSPAM – content-based adaptive spam filter for multi-user enterprise systems.
  • OpenDKIM – DKIM (Domain Keys Identified Mail) sender authentication system (RFC6376), includes Author Domain Signing Practises (ADSP, RFC5617), Vouch By Reference (VBR, RFC5518), and Authorized Third Party Signatures protocol (ATPS, RFC6541).
  • Postfix – standard FOSS Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

File Encryption[edit]

  • End-to-End – email encryption plugin for Chrome web browser.
  • FreeOTFE – old FOSS on-the-fly disk file encryption.

Enterprise Service Bus[edit]

Fax[edit]

  • HylaFax – fax send, receive, route to email.

File Synchronization[edit]

File Systems[edit]

  • Ceph – distributed object store and file system.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)[edit]

Geographic Information Systems[edit]

Groupware Synchronization[edit]

  • SyncEvolution – synchronizing with Evolution email / calendar / contacts app.

Messaging Systems[edit]

Multimedia[edit]

  • Tizen – device API for HTML5.

Natural Language Processing (NLP)[edit]

Networking[edit]

  • node.js – JavaScript for scalable network programming.
  • Samba – connection of Linux and Microsoft Windows networking, file systems, printers.

Network Management[edit]

  • Nagios – standard FOSS monitoring and alerting software.

Network Monitoring[edit]

Operating Systems[edit]

  • Contiki – lightweight OS for the "Internet of things".
  • Linux – FOSS version of Unix, now the standard and most widely used server operating system.
  • OpenBSD – old Unix variant, uses very open BSD License, record of being extraordinarily secure.
  • Red Hat – first commercially supported Linux operating system (1993).
  • Tails – Secure Linux bootable from USB with privacy tools builtin.
  • Ubuntu – most widely used FOSS desktop operating system.

Operating Systems Embedded[edit]

Operating System Emulation[edit]

  • Wine – Windows emulator on Linux, can run some but not all versions of a lot of Windows software.

Operating System Virtualization[edit]

  • OpenVZ – Linux kernel parallelization.

Password Utilities[edit]

  • ophcrack – Windows password cracker using rainbow tables (Apache 2, GPL2)

Portals[edit]

  • Liferay – mobile content development.

Proxy Servers[edit]

  • Nginx – HTTP and reverse proxy server, and mail proxy server.

Robotics[edit]

Search[edit]

Security Software[edit]

  • Barada – two factor password authentication.
  • Kerberos – standard FOSS software for secure authentication of users and software.
  • OpenVPN – standard FOSS software for virtual private networks.

Smartphones[edit]

  • Android – standard FOSS smartphone software from Google.
  • Funambol – standard FOSS smartphone system and software communications integration software.

Spam and Anti-Virus Protection[edit]

  • ClamAV – standard FOSS anti-virus tool, mainly used to clean Windows viruses from email passing through.
  • ClamWin – ClamAV version for Windows computers.
  • dkim-milter – legitimate email authentication support.
  • DSPAM – standard FOSS spam blocking software.

Statistics[edit]

  • StatsD – front-end proxy for the Graphite/Carbon metrics and graphing server.

Storage Management[edit]

  • FreeNAS – Network Attached Storage (NAS) management.

System Cloning[edit]

System Integration[edit]

  • Chef – automation of application management and configuration.

Systems Management[edit]

  • Spacewalk – Linux content provisioning and monitoring.
  • sysdig – capture and analyze Linux instance state information.
  • ZooKeeper – centralized maintenance of system configuration data, Apache project.

Testing[edit]

  • Chaos Monkey – random process termination testing (from Netflix).
  • HtmlUnit – GUI-less web emulator for testing from Java.
  • Iago – load generator for performance testing.
  • Zipkin – web service response time profiling.

Video[edit]

  • WebM – an open web media project developing a high-quality, open video format.

Virtual Desktop Servers[edit]

Also see Virtual Desktop Clients.

  • FreeNX – the first NX server built on NoMachine's original FOSS release.
  • neatx – an NX server from Google.
  • SPICE – NX software originally developed by Redhat.
  • x2go – X-windows remote access.

Web Server[edit]

  • Apache Web Server – the first and now standard FOSS website server, runs most of the world's websites, provided an early proof of the superior performance and robustness of a FOSS application.

Wireless[edit]