Best Ten Open Source Projects Have Brought Revolution in The Tech World

In my Hub title bar i have written two words "Open Source". What is open Source? A question may arise. The answer is "software that is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code." Open source software are free to use. This free refers to the freedom to copy and re-use the software, rather than to the price of the software. Open source is not only a pair of words, it means a lot.... "Philosophical Freedom". Here i am going to discuss my favorite ten open source projects, it may be different from your choice. You can add your favorite projects by comment.

1. Linux: My favorite operating system. The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration. It is a Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel, which give you full right to copy , modify and share. It has many distribution such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, openSUSE and so on. I love Ubuntu for its simplicity, better performance, user friendliness. Another thing if you use it then you have no tension of virus. you can try it,you will never disappointed.
2. Mozilla Firefox : It is the best browser i think. You might use it. It is also a open source project. The best thing of Firefox is that it has thousands of plug in, that other browser have not. You can decorate it as your wish, you face no bound on this case. Every thing you will get near your hand. Latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing, live bookmarking, a download manager, spell checking, incremental find, private browsing, location-aware browsing etc.
3. Wordpress : If you do not know to write code to make a website for your own, Then wordpress is an ultimate solution for you.It is an open source content management system (CMS), often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It's installation is very easy. It will take about five minutes. You can fulfill all your requirements of your site by using plugins. They have great plug in collection. Just select and install. It also has multi user capabilities.
   

4. VLC Media Player : VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols like some paid-for alternatives. It runs in every OS of modern time such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. So why do not you use that?
   

5. FileZilla : FileZilla is a hugely successful, cross-platform FTP client, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. It works on all available OS like Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS).

6. Gimp : Just like sound editors, industry standard image editing software is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people, but GIMP provides a free alternative for them. GIMP can accomplish essential image work-flow steps such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. so lets try.
   

7. OpenOffice : Do you think to buy a office package for your business or your personal use? Then think about openoffice. It has the ability to create text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and databases. Day by day it is becoming strongest Microsoft Office rival .It gives better performance and it is free . If you are a Microsoft Office user, then do not feel tension, it will make you feel completely at home and you will find that OpenOffice performs just as well, if not better.

8. Mozilla Thunderbird : Thunderbird is a simple cross-platform e-mail, newsgroup and news feed client. Thunderbird is the best for it's speedy searches, built-in RSS feeds, strong security and superb add-ons. It can manage multiple e-mail, newsgroup and news feed accounts and also supports multiple identities within accounts. So get ready to play with it.

9. Drupal: Drupal is another open source CMS like wordpress. It offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration. It can be used as a business website, an Internet forum, a single- or multi-user blog or a community website providing for user-generated content.

10. 7-Zip : 7-Zip is a free and extremely popular file archiver for Windows and linux which, although free, outperforms Winzip. 7-Zip can unpack the following formats such as ZIP, gzip, bzip2, tar,ARJ, CAB, CHM, cpio, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z. So it should be your choice.

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