OSS Alternatives

Contents 1 Internet 2 Office Productivity 3 Business and Collaboration 4 Network Monitoring and Management 5 Networking and Security 6 Application Development 7 Video and Graphic Creation 8 Multimedia 9 Misc

Internet

Firefox: A very good browser to replace Internet Explorer.
Pidgin: An alternative chat client to Yahoo, MSN, Google, Jabber, etc.

Office Productivity

OpenOffice: Provides much of the same functionality as Microsoft Offices' Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.
Evolution: An Outlook alternative.
DIA: An alternative to Microsoft Visio.

Business and Collaboration

SugarCRM: Customer Relationship Manager

Network Monitoring and Management

MRTG: Multi Router Traffic Grapher
Cacti: Like MRTG, but better web based functionality built in.
OpenNMS: Network and Server monitoring.

Networking and Security

Vyatta: A alternative to many functions that Cisco provides for routing, firewalls, vpn, ids/ips, multicast tunneling, etc.
Quagga Routing Software: Provides dynamic routing abilities via BGP, OSPF, RIP, etc.
AsteriskNOW: An Open Source PBX.
SmoothWall: A network firewall and VPN appliance.
IPCop: A network firewall appliance.

Application Development

Video and Graphic Creation

Kino: A Digital Video Editor.
Open Movie Editor: Video Editing.
Cinelerra: Video Editing.
GIMP: An alternative to Photoshop.

Multimedia

Misc