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.
Automation
Backup
Bug Tracking & Management
- BugZilla - Heritage back to the old Mozilla Netscape days.
- Entomologist - Coordination of multiple bug trackers.
Caching
- Memcached - Memory caching
Cloud Computing
- See Cloud Computing
Collaboration Server
Compression
Configuration Management
- Git - developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
- Subversion
Databases
- MariaDB - MySQL replacement.
- PostgreSQL - enterprise scalability.
Database Management
Data-Center Management
Data Processing
- Hadoop - distributed very large data processing
- Pig - parallelized very large data set processing
- Storm - distributed very large data set processing
Development
- Ruby on Rails - Web development
Directory Services
Disk Partitioning
Domain Name System (DNS)
- BIND - runs the Internet.
Drivers
Enterprise Service Bus
Fax
File Encryption
File & Print
File Synchronization
File Systems
- Ceph - Distributed object store and file system
FTP
Geographic Information Systems
Groupware Synchronization
- SyncEvolution - For synchronizing Evolution calendar, contacts, notes, tasks.
Messaging Systems
- RabitMQ - Application messaging.
Multimedia
- Red5 server - Flash emulator.
- Tizen - device API for HTML5.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Networking
- Linux Wireless - IEEE-802.11 subsystem.
- node.js - scalable network programming.
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
System Integration
Systems Management
Testing
- Chaos Monkey - random process termination (Netflix release)
- Iago - Load generator for performance testing
- Zipkin - Web service response time profiling
Virtual Desktop
- FreeNX - original.
- neatx - from Google.
- SPICE - from Redhat.
Web Server
- Apache Web Server - one of the first great open source successes.