At BSD Computer Systems we are strong supporters of the Open Source community. “Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Most of the software listed below is Open Source. Some are free or have free versions. At BSD Computer Systems we have tested the software listed on this page to be well developed and robust alternatives to commercial software packages. There are hundreds of thousands open source projects available. Many of them are listed at SourceForge and GitHub
Office Productivity
LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windo ws, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document prod uction and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
Multimedia
Kodi™ (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
The free Plex Media Server simplifies your life by organizing all of your personal media, making it beautiful and streaming it to all of your devices.
MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and Music in a much more dynamic way. All in the comfort of your living room, on your big screen LCD or Plasma TV or projector!
Desktop Publishing
Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design.
Accounting
GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Web Browser
The award-winning Firefox Web browser has security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web. Don't settle for anything less.
FTP/DAV Clients
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.
Graphics / Photo Editing
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
RawTherapee is a free RAW converter and digital photo processing software. It is available for W indows and for Linux and is actively developed.
Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format.
Video Editing
Lightworks is an Oscar and Emmy award winning professional NLE system for editing and mastering of movies in 2K and 4K as well as television productions in PAL, NTSC and HD. Numerous internationall y renowned and Oscar award-winning feature films, including The King's Speech, Martin Scorsese's The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman were edited on Lightworks.
OpenShot OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.
HandBrake HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
3D Modeling
Blender is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
E-Mail Clients
Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize - and it's loaded with great features!
PDF Creation
PDFCreator allows you to create PDF files from within any Windows program
Password Manager
Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all.
KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
Disk Encryption
VeraCrypt is a software for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc).
Backup and Synchronization
FreeFileSync is a free Open Source software that helps you synchronize files and synchronize folders for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is designed to save your time setting up and running backup jobs while having nice visual feedback along the way.
Security
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free uses industry-leading technology to detect and remove all traces of malware, including worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware, and more.
Operating System
FreeBSD is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms.
Built on top of FreeBSD, GhostBSD provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system pre-configured with the carefully selected minimal commonly used set software required to start using it to its full potential.
Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, with Unity as its default desktop environment (formerly GNOME). It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, "human-ness"), which often is translated as "humanity towards others" or "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
