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• 7-Zip in 28 toolboxes
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  Free file archiver with high compression ratio.

  tagged: bzip2, compression, gzip, opensource, rar, utilities, zip
• AbiWord in 3 toolboxes
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  AbiWord is a free word processing program. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Works in Linux, Mac, PC

  tagged: lightweight, Linux, mac, office, pc, processor, word
• apache in 62 toolboxes
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  industry standard open source web server

  tagged: free, HTTP, opensource, server, webserver
• Asterisk in 20 toolboxes
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  Open source PBX (phone system)

  tagged: Asterisk, converter, opensource, pbx, server, SIP, softswitch, telephony, tools, voip
• Audacity in 96 toolboxes
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  Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

  tagged: audio, avbox, converter, crossplatform, lasatech_audvid, mac, multimedia, multmedia, opensource, sound
• AVG Free Edition in 42 toolboxes
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  Inexpensive antivirus software for up to five computers.

  tagged: antivirus, free, Security, utility, virus
• AWStats in 9 toolboxes
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  Free open source web site traffic analysis software.

  tagged: analysis, free, GNU, Logs, opensource, traffic, website
• Badboy in 1 toolbox
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  Web application testing tool for Windows

  tagged: testing, web, windows
• bind in 2 toolboxes
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  BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including:

  * a Domain Name System server (named)
  * a Domain Name System resolver library
  * tools for verifying the proper operation of the DNS server

  tagged: dns
• cacti in 2 toolboxes
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  Network montioring/graphing tool (web-based)

  tagged: graphing, monitoring, mrtg, Network, opensource, rrd
• Cygwin in 8 toolboxes
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  Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.

  tagged: bash, emulator, Linux, linux-emulator, unix, unix-emulator, windows
• Debian in 38 toolboxes
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  Linux distribution with a very strong community

  tagged: apc, DEB, debian, distribution, distro, free, GNU, Linux, opensource, operatingsystem, server, ubuntu
• dnsmasq in 3 toolboxes
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  Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP for network booting of diskless machines.

  tagged: dns, masquerading, NAT, server
• Ekiga in 4 toolboxes
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  An opensource Voice over IP phone allowing you to do free calls over the Internet.

  tagged: chat, communication, h323, IM, internet, opensource, SIP, voice, voip
• FileZilla in 59 toolboxes
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  Free FTP client software.

  tagged: free, FTP, SFTP, windows
• Firebug in 51 toolboxes
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  The ultimate in-browser code-monkeying and debugging utility. An undeniable reason to switch to Firefox. Installs as a toolbar in the browser.

  tagged: coding, debugging, developer, opensource, toolbar, webdesign
• Firefox in 345 toolboxes
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  Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla

  tagged: apc, browser, crossplatform, CSS, firefox, free, internet, llc, mac, mozilla, netscape, opensource, plugin, secbox, tabs, web, webbrowser
• Flickr in 160 toolboxes
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  Web based photo sharing service

  tagged: 0, 2, awesome, during, event, flicker, flickr, globalmelt, hosted, lasatech_photos, leadlearn, Network, networking, photo, photography, photos, photosharing, sharing, social, software, tagging, tags, web, web2.0
• freeradius in 5 toolboxes
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  The server scales easily from embedded systems with small amounts of memory to systems with millions of users. It is fast, flexible, configurable, and supports more authentication protocols than most commercial servers. It includes support for SQL, LDAP, RADIUS Proxying, failover, load balancing, and nearly 100 vendor dictionary files. It can perform authentications via the PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, EAP-MD5, EAP-GTC, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAPv0, LEAP, EAP-SIM, and Digest authentication protocols.

  tagged: authentication, RADIUS
• gedit in 19 toolboxes
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  gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.

  tagged: apc, editor, free, freesoftware, opensource, programming, text
• GIMP in 116 toolboxes
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  A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

  tagged: apc, bitmap, crossplatform, graphics, lasatech_photos, Linux, multimedia, opensource, photos, photo_editor, windows
• Gizmo Call in 1 toolbox
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  Make free, short (up to 10 minutes per day) phone calls from your web browser.

  tagged: communication, hosted, phone, talk, voip, webbased
• GNOME in 21 toolboxes
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  GNOME Desktop Environment and Developer Platform

  tagged: desktop, developer, environment, GNU, Linux, opensource, OS
• Gnumeric in 4 toolboxes
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  The Gnumeric spreadsheet is part of the GNOME desktop environment: a project to create a free, user friendly desktop environment.

  tagged: apc, free, freesoftware, GNOME, GNU, lightweight, officesuite, opensource, productivity, spreadsheet
• Google in 105 toolboxes
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  Google is the quintessential search engine.

  tagged: engine, find, free, google, hosted, leadlearn, search, searchengine, web
• Google Earth in 83 toolboxes
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  Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

  tagged: google, mac, mapping, maps, tools
• Google Talk in 36 toolboxes
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  Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free, anytime, anywhere in the world.

  tagged: chat, google, IM, instant-messaging, messaging, talk, voip
• GParted in 12 toolboxes
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  GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application.

  tagged: diskpartition, opensource, partition
• iperf in 2 toolboxes
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  Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.

  tagged: bandwidth, monitoring, networking
• iptables in 7 toolboxes
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  netfilter.org is home to the software of the packet filtering framework inside theLinux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel series. Software commonly associated with netfilter.org is iptables.

  tagged: firewall, Linux, Security
• iptraf in 2 toolboxes
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  IPTraf is a console-based network statistics utility for Linux. It gathers a variety of figures such as TCP connection packet and byte counts, interface statistics and activity indicators, TCP/UDP traffic breakdowns, and LAN station packet and byte counts.

  tagged: Linux, monitoring, networking, networksniffer
• JMeter in 1 toolbox
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  Web application testing tool (advanced)

  tagged: application-testing, testing, web
• kismet in 2 toolboxes
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  Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.

  tagged: Linux, opensource, wardriving, wireless
• m0n0wall in 2 toolboxes
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  m0n0wall is a project aimed at creating a complete, embedded firewall software package that, when used together with an embedded PC, provides all the important features of commercial firewall boxes (including ease of use) at a fraction of the price (free software).
  m0n0wall is based on a bare-bones version of FreeBSD, along with a web server, PHP and a few other utilities. The entire system configuration is stored in one single XML text file to keep things transparent.

  tagged: firewall, freebsd, opensource, privacy, protection, wireless
• Mailman in 31 toolboxes
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  Mailing list manager

  tagged: community, distribution, email, leadlearn, listserv, list_server, mail, server_side_application
• MediaWiki in 85 toolboxes
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  Powerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project

  tagged: apc, collaboration, password-protected, private, server, wiki, wikipedia, wikiwiki
• Meebo in 6 toolboxes
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  Cross-platform, multi-protocol, IM and presence awareness aggregator.

  tagged: chat, IM, instant-messaging, messaging, messenger, talk, web-chat
• MWSnap in 3 toolboxes
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  Tool for quickly getting any-size screenshots (Windows)

  tagged: screenshot
• MySQL in 64 toolboxes
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  Open source DataBase Management System

  tagged: database, database-management, dms, opensource, SQL
• Network Stumbler in 6 toolboxes
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  Wireless Network surveying tool for Windows

  tagged: Network, survey, wireless
• nmap in 8 toolboxes
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  Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts.

  tagged: Linux, networking, Security
• ntop in 4 toolboxes
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  ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well.

  ntop users can use a a web browser (e.g. netscape) to navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case, ntop can be seen as a simple RMON-like agent with an embedded web interface.

  tagged: monitoring, Network
• OpenLayers in 14 toolboxes
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  Free, Open dynamic web mapper. (An alternative to Google/Yahoo Maps)

  tagged: free, freesoftware, gis, javascript, maps, opensource, wms
• OpenOffice in 203 toolboxes
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  Full-featured open source office productivity suite, featuring word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database packages; free MS Office replacement.

  tagged: apc, bloatware, calc, crossplatform, editor, microsoft, office, officesuite, opensource, powerpoint, preocessing, presentation, productivity, spreadsheet, spreadshet, suite, word, wordprocessing
• OpenSSH in 28 toolboxes
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  Secure shell

  tagged: cli, Security, ssh, telnet, terminal
• OpenStreetMap in 21 toolboxes
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  OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them.

  tagged: hosted, map, mapping, opensource, wiki
• OpenWRT in 3 toolboxes
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  OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices.

  Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. For developer, OpenWrt is the framework to build an application without having to build a complete firmware around it; for users this means the ability for full customization, to use the device in ways never envisioned.

  tagged: firmware, linksys, Linux, opensource, wireless
• Paypal in 90 toolboxes
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  General funds transfer service which can be adapted for online donations.

  tagged: creditcards, donation, fundraising, hosted, Online, online-payments, payment, processing, sales
• PHP in 54 toolboxes
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  PHP Language

  tagged: dynamicpages, language, php, programming, scripting, web
• phpMyAdmin in 60 toolboxes
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  web-based interface for managing MySQL

  tagged: database, mysql, opensource, php, webapp
• Pidgin in 91 toolboxes
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  A multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client

  tagged: AIM, apc, chat, crossplatform, gaim, IM, instant, instant-messaging, instantmessaging, IRC, message, messaging, MSN, ngoinabox, NOSI, open, opensource, pigeon, secbox, YAHOO
• Plone in 45 toolboxes
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  A powerful platform for content, community and collaboration websites

  tagged: blog, blogging, calendar, CMS, community, contentmanagement, email, hosted, humaninet, opensource, Petition, plone, python, rss, wicked, zope
• PostgreSQL in 11 toolboxes
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  Open source database.

  tagged: database, dms, opensource, SQL
• Puppy Linux in 3 toolboxes
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  Puppy Linux

  tagged: cdrom, distribution, end, Linux, livecd, low, usb
• PuTTY in 71 toolboxes
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  A Free Telnet/SSH Client

  tagged: apc, encryption, remoteaccess, scp, Security, small, ssh, telnet, tunnelling
• RealVNC in 12 toolboxes
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  Remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet.

  tagged: collaboration, cross-platform, opensource, remote-control, remote-desktop, sharing
• RRDtool in 2 toolboxes
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  RRD is the acronym for Round Robin Database. It is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average).

  tagged: graphing, Linux, monitoring, networking
• SAHANA in 12 toolboxes
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  Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system.

  tagged: collaboration, disaster, disastermanagement, humanresources, management, Online, opensource, personnel, resource-management, sahana, volunteer, volunteermanagement
• Samba in 19 toolboxes
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  Domain management in multi-platform environments (Windows + Linux + Mac, etc) including user management, printer management, shared folder management, etc.

  tagged: filesharing, freebsd, Linux, opensource, pdc, server
• Selenium in 4 toolboxes
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  Web application testing tool family

  tagged: testing, web
• Shorewall in 4 toolboxes
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  The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is a high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

  tagged: filtering, firewall, free, netfilter, Network, opensource, privacy, protection, Security
• siege in 1 toolbox
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  Web server stess-testing tool

  tagged: stress, testing, web
• Skype in 228 toolboxes
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  Free/cheap Internet telephony and handy IM tool.

  tagged: apc, calls, chat, crossplatform, free, globalmelt, IM, instantmessaging, internettelephony, leadlearn, MacOSX, management, OnDemandNPO, phone, project, secbox, Security, skype, skypeout, tools, video, voip
• SME Server in 2 toolboxes
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  Easy to install & maintain Linux distro targetting small offices with no professional IT staff

  tagged: distro, easy, Linux, opensource, RPM, server
• Smokeping in 2 toolboxes
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  Network monitoring tool showing latency, packet loss & jitter (web-based)

  tagged: graphing, monitoring, Network, rrd
• squid in 8 toolboxes
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  Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on Unix and Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

  tagged: Linux, proxy, server
• Stinger in 2 toolboxes
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  Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses.

  tagged: anti-virus, scan, virus, virus-removal
• stunnel in 4 toolboxes
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  Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.

  tagged: encryption, Linux, opensource, Security, SSL, tunneling, windows
• Thunderbird in 137 toolboxes
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  Mozilla's Open Source email client

  tagged: client, communication, crossplatform, e-mail, email, GNU, IMAP, Linux, mac, mail, mail_client, opensource, secbox, side
• Time and Date in 6 toolboxes
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  This helpful, free Web site includes a clock that displays current local times of cities around the world, a meeting planner, and a monthly calendar. Time and Date's customization features allow you to save your own settings.

  tagged: calendar, callendar, countdown, date, meeting, meetings, time, timezones
• TortoiseSVN in 15 toolboxes
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  TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.

  tagged: code, cvs, development, engineering, softwareengineering, svn, versioncontrol
• Trac in 23 toolboxes
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  Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. It provides an interface to Subversion and an integrated wiki.

  tagged: bugtracking, collaboration, cvs, development, engineering, free, management, opensource, project, projectmanagement, software, svn, wiki
• Trixbox in 2 toolboxes
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  Asterisk-made-easy: Easy to install & easy to manage through web-based UI

  tagged: Asterisk, opensource, pbx, voip
• Ubuntu in 136 toolboxes
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  User-friendly Linux distribution.

  The Ubuntu promise:

  * Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates

  * Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world

  * Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features that the free software community has to offer

  * Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

  tagged: Africa, apc, Canonical, debian, distribution, distro, freesoftware, GNU, Linux, opensource, operating, operatingsystem, OS, South, system, ubuntu
• Vim in 16 toolboxes
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  An improved version of the vi editor

  tagged: editor, text, text-editor, vi
• VLC Media Player in 79 toolboxes
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  VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

  tagged: apc, audio, divx, dvd, flac, free, mac, media, media-player, mp3, mpeg, open, opensource, player, source, streaming, video, xvid
• VMWare Player in 7 toolboxes
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  Free virtual machine software with a large library of useful preconfigured machines available for download.

  tagged: crossplatform, free, virtual, virtualization
• vncon in 1 toolbox
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  Front-end for VNC clients - allowing saving of shortcuts & pushing installs

  tagged: remote-desktop, vnc
• wget in 10 toolboxes
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  GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

  tagged: download, www
• Wikipedia in 131 toolboxes
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  Wikipedia is a global and multilingual Web-based cooperative free-content encyclopedia.

  tagged: collaboration, encyclopedia, information, mediawiki, reference, research, website, wiki
• WinSCP in 24 toolboxes
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  WinSCP (Windows Secure CoPY) is an open source SFTP and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. WinSCP offers basic file manager functionality for uploading and downloading files from a server.

  tagged: basebox, desktop, encryption, filetransfer, FTP, ngoinabox, NOSI, scp, Security, SFTP, utility
• Wireshark in 15 toolboxes
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  Sniffing Problems A Mile Away. The Ethereal network protocol analyzer has changed its name to Wireshark.

  tagged: Network, Sniffer
• X-Chat in 8 toolboxes
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  Free cross-platform IRC client

  tagged: chat, crossplatform, gtk, IRC, opensource