A very nice MSN compatible messenger application, aMSN Messenger is a multiplatform MSN messenger clone. Works pretty much like its Windows based counterpart. Perfect for keeping in touch with those friends who have not yet seen the light. Works on linux 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop Developers GNU General Public License (GPL) Other Linux OS X All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) OS Portable (Source code to work with many OS platforms) Filesharing-Bittorrent p2p client connected to TCP supernode/leaf network and UDP DHT network. Ares features a built-in directshow media player, a powerful library manager, shoutcast radio support and can be used to host p2p Chatrooms. 4 - Beta End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) A fast multi-track audio editor and recorder for Linux, BSD, Mac OS, and Windows. Supports WAV, AIFF, Ogg, and MP3 formats. Features include envelope editing, mixing, built-in effects and plug-ins, all with unlimited undo. 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) Apple Mac OS Classic OS X Linux All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) Vuze (formerly Azureus) is a P2P file sharing client using the bittorrent protocol. Search and download torrent files. Play, convert and transcode videos and music for playing on many devices such as PSP, TiVo, XBox, PS3, iTunes (iPhone, iPod, Apple TV). 5 - Production/Stable System Administrators Science/Research End Users/Desktop Information Technology Developers Education GNU General Public License (GPL) OS X All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) Linux BitTorrent is a tool for distributed download. Go to http://www.bittorrent.com/ for the latest version, or http://www.bittorrent.com/dl/?C=M;O=D for source and older versions. 5 - Production/Stable System Administrators End Users/Desktop Other License All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. 6 - Mature 1 - Planning 5 - Production/Stable Developers End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) So far this project consists of a source rpm that can be used to easily create a binary rpm package that, when installed, gives access to Microsoft's TrueType core fonts for the Web. 4 - Beta End Users/Desktop System Administrators GNU General Public License (GPL) All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) This is a project aimed at producing a file sharing client using the ADC protocol. It also supports connecting to the Direct Connect network. 4 - Beta End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) WINE 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) eMule is a filesharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) 32-bit MS Windows (95/98) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) WinXP Win2K Vista eMule Plus is an evolution of the original eMule project, created to improve its abilities and features, in both work efficiency and user interface. Berkeley/Sleepycat/Gdbm (DBM) 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2003 WINE FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. 5 - Production/Stable Developers End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) WinXP Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Linux FreeBSD OS X GIMP and GTK+ installers for Windows 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop zlib/libpng License GNU General Public License (GPL) GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 32-bit MS Windows (95/98) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) WinXP Win2K Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 4 - Beta End Users/Desktop GNU General Public License (GPL) 32-bit MS Windows (95/98) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) WinXP Win2K PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.
 Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop System Administrators GNU General Public License (GPL) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about for more information. 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop Advanced End Users Developers GNU General Public License (GPL) Linux All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X) Other All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes) OS Portable (Source code to work with many OS platforms) PortableApps.com allows you to carry your favorite computer programs and all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you on a portable device (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc) and use them on any Windows computer. 5 - Production/Stable 6 - Mature End Users/Desktop Developers Advanced End Users System Administrators Education Information Technology GNU General Public License (GPL) GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1) wxWindows Library Licence MIT License All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) WINE Vista WinXP Win2K 7-Zip is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, ISO, MSI, WIM, NSIS, RPM and DEB formats. 5 - Production/Stable System Administrators End Users/Desktop Developers GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 32-bit MS Windows (95/98) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) WinXP Win2K Shareaza is a multi-network peer-to-peer ( P2P ) file-sharing client supporting Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 ( eMule ), HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. Using C++, MFC and ATL, for Windows. Flat-file 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop Advanced End Users GNU General Public License (GPL) Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) WinXP 64-bit MS Windows Win2K Desktop video processing and capture application (Win32). 5 - Production/Stable 4 - Beta Developers End Users/Desktop Advanced End Users GNU General Public License (GPL) 32-bit MS Windows (95/98) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) 64-bit MS Windows WinSCP is a SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is the secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. It uses Secure Shell (SSH) and supports, in addition to Secure FTP, also legacy SCP protocol. 5 - Production/Stable End Users/Desktop Developers System Administrators GNU General Public License (GPL) 32-bit MS Windows (95/98) 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP) All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) WinXP Win2K WINE Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Win95 Win98 OSR2 WinME WinNT Windows 7