50 Open Source Desktop Projects: Good Downloads | Linux Today

50 Open Source Desktop Projects: Good Downloads

Written By
MH
Matt Hartley
Aug 17, 2007

“Behold the vast and sprawling feast of open source downloads.
Incredible, ain’t it? Armed with little more than an Internet
connection and some extra space on your hard drive, a rich
cornucopia awaits you.

“And so, with no further ado… let’s dig in!

  1. “Filezilla A popular FTP client that is powerful, simple to use
    and cross platform. It’s been said that the UI is quite
    intuitive.
  2. “aMSNA near exact open source duplicate of the ever-popular MSN
    client now replaced by Live Messenger on the Windows OS. aMSN is
    available for both Windows and Linux operating systems…”

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MH

Matt Hartley

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