System Software
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System related 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.
Backup
Bug Management
Cloud Computing
- See Cloud Computing
Collaboration Server
Compression
Configuration Management
- Git - developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
- Subversion
Databases
- PostgreSQL - enterprise scalability.
Data-Center Management
Directory Services
Disk Partitioning
Distributed Computing
- Hadoop - very large data processing.
Domain Name System (DNS)
- BIND - runs the Internet.
Drivers
Enterprise Service Bus
Fax
File Encryption
File & Print
File Synchronization
Flash
FTP
Geographic Information Systems
Groupware Synchronization
Multimedia
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Networking
- Linux Wireless - IEEE-802.11 subsystem.
Network Management
- Nagios - alerting.
Network Monitoring
- WireShark - packet inspection.
Operating Systems
- OpenBSD - Unix variant.
Operating Systems Embedded
Operating System Emulation
- Wine - Windows on Linux
Operating System Virtualization
- OpenVZ - Linux kernel parallelization.
PDF Writers
Portals
Robotics
Search
Security Software
Smartphones
- Android - from Google.
- Funambol - integration engine.
Spam and Anti-Virus Protection
Storage Management
System Cloning
Systems Management
Virtual Desktop
- FreeNX - original.
- neatx - from Google.
- SPICE - from Redhat.
Web Server
- Apache Web Server - one of the first great open source successes.