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Photoshop plug-ins for Gimp - now also for Linux In March, a Photoshop plug-in interface (Photoshop 8bf filters loader) was developed, which made it possible for you to use all your favourite Photoshop plug-ins in Gimp on - not only Windows - but... |
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The popular Open source directory Osalt.com (Open Source as Alternative) is now available in Spanish
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SUSE Linux 10.2 The openSUSE project delivers one of the best linux distributions available. For many years SUSE Linux has been considered a high quality linux distribution for both private users as well as... |
Gimp 2.6 Probably the oldest and most well-known open source graphic application - GNU Image Manipulation Program or Gimp was started in 1995 and has since then grown to the status it has today. Gimp is a... |
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 Photoshop Elements is the little brother of Photoshop. But that does not mean that it is simple and useless. Adobe has taken many features found in previous version of their flagship product... Alternatives: Gimp CinePaint Krita Gimpshop Seashore
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Photoshop is the most well known and widely used graphics editing software. Recognized by most professionals as the single most important tool. Photoshop has since it's introduction always been a... Alternatives: Gimp CinePaint Krita Gimpshop Seashore
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Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Ubuntu Linux is one of the latest and most successful new linux distributions. Ubuntu is originally derived from the well-known Debian distribution, but has added a lot of new functionality. One of... |
Cooperative Linux 0.7 coLinux is an extremely interesting new approach to virtualization allowing you to run Linux parallel to your Windows platform. coLinux approaches the experimenting Linux novice - who does not... |
Fedora Core 6 With it roots and backing in Redhat - Fedora is a easy to use and to configure. More advanced features include Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) that make tampering virtually impossible. Based on the... |
Gimpshop 2.2.11 If you feel at home in Photoshop, but need an open source alternative - Gimpshop is the way to go. Gimpshop is a hack made on top of the original Gimp project which changes all menues, dialogs, etc.,... |
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in 4.5 Eventhough this is "just" a plug-in for Photoshop it is still listed here due to it's important features and high quality raw photo converter. Camera Raw lets you control exposure, color-cast - and... Alternatives: UFRaw
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Ingres 2006 Community Edition For many years Ingres has been a well-known names in the database business. Now it is available as open source. Ingres is a high performance and highly scalable database systems, which also features... |
xvidcap 1.1.4 xvidcap is a screencast application for Linux. It allows you to capture either parts of the full screen of your Linux desktop. This makes it an ideal tool for making either demonstrations of software... |
GnuCash for Windows After a long periode of time GnuCash is finally available as a binary for Windows. However, this is still a very preliminary version - so don't expect everything to work just yet. But this is still a... |
CinePaint 0.23 Started as a fork of the Gimp project, the goal is to create a more professional graphical editing application aimed at the movie industry. One of the major differences from Gimp is that CinePaint... |
Cornice 0.6.2 Cornice was originally developed to provide more or less the same functionality of ACDSee but on Linux. But since it was developed using Python program language - it is now available on virtually any... |
VirtualBox 3.0 Originally a commercial product VirtualBox is now also available in an open source edition. The open source version is, however, always a version behind the commercial version and thus lacks some... |
Seashore 0.1.9 Seashore, an open source image editing program for the MacOS's Cocoa framework, stands somewhere between the old MacPaint and Photoshop. Its advantage lies in serving the basic image editing needs... |
Bacula 2.2.7 Bacula is an open source networked backup system for Linux/Unix, Mac and Windows clients. Contrary to some other backup solutions Bacula uses a specific client application written for each operating... |
LMMS 0.4.5 Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS) is a free DAW (digital audio workstation) created for Linux & Windows. Although it has a rather steep learning curve, there are many tutorials and it includes several... |
Cinelerra 4.0 Cinelerra is a highly advanced and professional video editing, but still remains open source. Cinelerra solves three main tasks: capturing, editing and compositing. There is virtually no limit to the... |
Scribus 1.3.3 Scribus brings open source award-winning professional page layout to Linux and *nix desktops, but also supports Windows and Mac OS. As a DTP tool it supports professional publishing features, such as... |
VirtualDub 1.7.8 VirtualDub is an open source video processor/editor. Even though it may not be able to do advanced editing like non-linear video editors - it has powerful features for processing your video clips.... |
Clonezilla Clonezilla is an open source solution to computer backup, restoration and "ghosting". It is based on partition imaging and allows you to backup and recover your system should it be taken out by a... |
Nvu 1.0 Nvu is a web development system primarily developed for Linux but is now also available for windows and mac. The project aims to be an open source alternative for the major commercial web authoring... |
Adobe InDesign CS3 When it comes to desktop publishing Adobe's InDesign is a perfect package. The integration to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator makes it a powerful tool for create professional layout and designs.... Alternatives: Scribus
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GParted 0.3.3 GParted is an open source partition manager also known as the Gnome Partition Editor application. It is actualy a LiveCD/LiveUSB that allows you to boot directly into GParted when you need it -... |
Banshee 0.13 Banshee is a music player with many advanced features. One of the most important is iPod synchronization, which is now available simple and easy on Linux. On top of that Banshee does a great job as a... |
Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 Paint Shop Pro (or PSP) has a long history of being the best low cost bitmap and today vector graphics editor. PSP was originally developed by Jasc Software, but in 2004 Corel took over Jasc, and... Alternatives: Gimp CinePaint Krita Gimpshop Seashore
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Pandora 2.0 Pandora FMS (Flexible Monitoring System) is a complete network and node (servers, workstations, etc.) monitoring solution. Pandora comes in three parts - agents, server and console. The agents are... |
Evolution 2.22 Evolution is an e-mail client built from scratch to be an alternative to Outlook on Linux. Today it has evolved beyond that - and provides stable functionaly through typical e-mail features. But... |
MPlayer 1.0 MPlayer is an open source movie player originally made for Linux. Today, however, a number of platforms are supported - and it is most likely the movie player that supports the most formats.... |
Ardour 2.3 Ardour is professional hard-disc recording for MacOSX and Linux - meets all of you studio requirements. Ardour packs features such as: multi-channel recording, non-linear and non-destructive editing,... |
Wireshark 1.0 Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) is a top open source product that allows you to capture (or sniff) packets on a LAN (local area network) in order to analyze the network traffic. Once you turn... |
Rosegarden 1.7 Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on... |
HandBrake 0.7.1 Handbrake is a DVD to MPEG-4 converter. It is able to process both unencrypted files from the VIDEO_TS folder as well as whole DVDs and turn them into MPEG-4 or H.264 formats. NTSC and PAL formats... |
Sage 4.1 SAGE is open source mathematics software that can be used to studying elementary to advanced number theory, algebra, cryptography, group theory and so much more. It includes interfaces to many other... |
FlightGear 1.0 FlightGear is a flight simulator compatible with virtually any operating system including Windows, Mac and Linux - with several unique features and options that may be quite different than you're... |
SilverStripe 2.2 SilverStripe is an easy to use content management system (CMS) based on PHP. Not only does SilverStripe offer an very cool looking user interface, but is is really simple to get started with and... |
Editra 0.4 Editra is an open source text editor that supports a variety of features, including syntax highlighting, for over sixty programming languages. Since it is built using wxWidgets, it can run on... |
Code::Blocks 8.02 Code::Blocks is an C++ IDE which makes it easy for experienced as well as new developers to create applications. Application made with Code::Blocks and based on wxWidgets - are portable between Linux... |
OpenVZ 2.6 OpenVZ is a great alternative to standard virtualization offerings on the market, that unlike most other products only offers operating system level virtualization - and only on Linux. However, this... |
Adobe Encore DVD 2.0 Encore DVD is one of the top professional DVD authoring suites. This software package lets you build anything from simple slideshows to advanced interactive menus for DVDs. Slidshows can be created... Alternatives: DVDStyler
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Joomla 1.5 Joomla is among the top two or three open source content management systems (CMS) on the market. Joomla offers an advanced CMS which is extremely modular built. This makes developing extensions easy... |
Helix Player 11 Helix Player is an open source edition of the media player - Real Player, but is only available for unix platforms - mainly Linux. The application is part of the Helix DNA Platform which is a... |
Sony ACID Pro 6 ACID Pro, a loop-based music creation tool, is a favorite of users worldwide. Combining loops, multi-track recording and MIDI, this is a full-featured music workstation that will produce... Alternatives: Audacity Traverso DAW
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Emesene 1.0.1 Emesene is a MSN Messenger clone, which primary goal is to support all features of the Windows Live Messenger Network (WLM). However, it does have a few extra features - besides trying to be... |
Launch4j 2.1.5 Launch4j is an open source installer that wrappes your jar files into native executables for e.g. Windows, but also MacOS, Linux and Solaris are supported. For JRE you can either embed one - or have... |
UFRaw 0.16 UFRaw or Unidentified Flying Raw - is an open source raw photo editor and converter. It is based on DCRaw (written by David Coffin) and can be used either as a standalone application - or as a... |
Mono 2.0 Mono is an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It most powerful feature is that Mono allow the execution of .NET application on almost any platform - including (but not... |
Typo3 4.2 Typo3, a content management system (CMS), is feature rich and yet is one of the easiest systems to learn. With new functions being created by more than 300 registered developers on a frequent basis,... |
MuseScore 0.9.5 MuseScore is an open source cross platform music notation program that has a lot of very good features. Simple to operate, notes are entered on a virtual note sheet with your mouse, MIDI or keyboard.... |
Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 Ghost is easy to use, high performance software used to deploy operating system images to servers and workstations as well as management of both Linux and Windows systems. It's so well known and... Alternatives: Clonezilla
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KeePass 2 KeePass is an open source password manager. Once you begin using this KeePass you'll need only one master password to unlock its database and you don't even have to remember that one. If you... |
UltraStar Deluxe 1.0 UltraStar Deluxe is a karaoke game inspired by the SingStar game played on PlayStation. The point of the game is to match the pitch of the music. One or several players score points by singing along... |
Parallels Workstation 2.2 If you have Windows but also like Linux, now you can have them both on your computer with Parallels Workstation without rebooting. Whatever your skill level, Parallels lets you easily run more than... Alternatives: Xen OpenVZ VirtualBox
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New features on osalt.com From now on we will be able to post any article along side with our open source product news on osalt.com's frontpage and through our popular RSS feed. We will be posting information about the... |
Open source media center alternatives All of us knows about Microsoft Window XP Media Center Edition (MCE), but what actually makes up a full featured media center? There are a couple of main features and then a few less important ones.... |
aMSN - a simple MSN clone Here on osalt.com we recieve many hits for people looking for alternatives to MSN Messenger. And while many of the alternatives we present are valid and great products - only one of them strives to... |
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