Third party software I enjoy
Operating System
- NetBSD An integrated, secure, high-performance, portable, mostly BSD-licensed Operating System descendant of the 4.4BSD unix family
Networking
- Apache The most widely used HTTP server
- nginx Very efficient frontend HTTP server
- BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) DNS server
- OpenSSH BSD-licensed implementation of Secure Shell
- OpenSSL BSD-style licensed implementation of many encryption protocols, an excellent C library, including a command-line utility
- Mutt Text email client
- Claws-Mail GTK modular email client
- Squid A cacheing HTTP proxy server
- Privoxy A powerful filtering HTTP proxy server to enhance your network security and reduce loading times, by eliminating ads and web bugs and optionally spoofing HTTP-Referer and/or User-Agent
- LFtp Powerful command-line FTP+SSH client
- PuTTY For those times when you need to use the cursed OS of a taboo vendor and need a good SSH client and terminal emulator
HTTP
- Dillo A very lightweight graphical HTTP client with good security features and defaults
- Lynx A lightweight text HTTP client
- Mozilla Firefox A full (too) featured graphical HTTP client
- NoScript A very useful plugin to enhance Firefox security
- AdBlock Plus A very useful plugin to make using Firefox less annoying
- GNU WGet Powerful command-line HTTP/FTP client
Editors and IDEs
- ViM (Vi iMproved) a powerful programmer's editor
- GNU Emacs
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OS^H^Hintegrateddevelopment environment and editor - SLIME A Lisp IDE for Emacs
Database
- PostgreSQL A powerful and efficient ORDBMS (Object-Relational Database Management System) with SQL support, released under BSD license.
- Berkeley DB Berkeley Database, easily embeddable in software
- SQLite BSD-licensed easily embeddable database library with SQL interface
Language Implementations
- GNU GCC Part of an excellent portable C toolchain, along with binutils
- Embeddable Common Lisp ECL is a Common Lisp implementation which compiles to C
- SBCL Steel Bank Common Lisp, a high-performance implementation of Common Lisp
- SpiderMonkey The Mozilla JavaScript engine, easily embeddable into C projects
Multimedia
- CLive A command-line video extraction/downloading utility to save your time and help processor longevity, avoiding bloated Flash video players
- FFmpeg Library and command line utility to handle video, audio and codecs
- mplayer and mencoder Multimedia player, encoder and transcoder also making use of ffmpeg
- Simple Direct media Layer Portable graphics and sound libraries (with friend libraries)
Miscellaneous
- CVS Concurrent Versions System
- Fluxbox Light and themable, configurable window manager for X11
- X Window System X.Org and XFree86 are implementations of X11
- urxvt A lightweight X11 terminal emulator based on rxvt with unicode and pseudo-translucency support
- GNU Screen An extremely useful terminal multiplexer with detach support
- GKrellM A nice GTK themable monitoring application with optional modules