Open Source Communications Software

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    qBittorrent

    qBittorrent

    A free and reliable P2P BitTorrent client

    An advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible.
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    Downloads: 371,389 This Week
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    eMule

    A free peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing client

    eMule is a free peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client for Microsoft Windows that was launched in 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000. To date, eMule is one of the world’s largest and most trustworthy P2P file-sharing clients. eMule includes advanced search features, file checks for corruptions while downloading, a preview while downloading function, and a credit system to reward frequent uploads.
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    Downloads: 16,632 This Week
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    Vuze - Azureus

    Vuze - Azureus

    An extremely powerful and configurable BitTorrent client

    Vuze (formerly Azureus) is an extremely powerful and configurable BitTorrent client. Search and download torrent files. Play, convert and transcode videos and music for playing on many devices such as PSP, TiVo, XBox, PS3, iTunes (iPhone, iPod, Apple TV).
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    Downloads: 2,978 This Week
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    Pidgin IM

    Pidgin IM

    A universal instant messaging (IM) program

    See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.
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    Downloads: 7,250 This Week
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    OpenKM Document Management - DMS

    OpenKM Document Management - DMS

    Document Management System and Content Management System

    OpenKM is a electronic document management system and record management system EDRMS ( DMS, RMS, CMS ). It provides modern and flexible architecture that meet today's IT demands, based on open technology (Java, Tomcat, GWT, Lucene, Hibernate, Spring and jBPM), powerful and scalable multiplatform application. OpenKM is a Web 2.0 application that works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Can be configured in major DMBS like Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL among others. Due to its technological architecture design, OpenKM meets the document management needs of businesses of all sizes (from SMEs to big corporations). Thanks to its elegant and intuitive interface, OpenKM transforms complex operations into easy tasks. The most relevant functions of OpenKM is the indexing of the most common types of files: text, Office, Office 2007, OpenOffice, PDF, HTML, XML, MP3, JPEG, etc. For a complete feature list take a look at http://goo.gl/au8cQy
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    Downloads: 813 This Week
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    SquirrelMail
    SquirrelMail is a PHP-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has strong MIME support and a flexible plugin system.
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    Downloads: 348 This Week
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    Gpredict

    Gpredict

    Real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction

    Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view.
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    Downloads: 231 This Week
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    Ares Galaxy

    Ares Galaxy

    A free peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent file sharing client

    Ares Galaxy is a free, open source BitTorrent and chat program that uses its own decentralized supernode/leaf network. Ares Galaxy has a simple, quick access interface with a built in audio/video viewer. Ares allows you to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc. You may now easily publish your files through the Ares’ peer-to-peer (P2P) network. As a member of the virtual community, you can search and download just about any file shared by other users. The latest versions also support the BitTorrent protocol and Shoutcast radio stations.
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    Downloads: 1,141 This Week
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    MRBS is a system for multi-site booking of meeting rooms. Rooms are grouped by building/area and shown in a side-by-side view. Although the goal was initially to book rooms, MRBS can also be used to book any resource; computers, planes, whatever you want
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    Downloads: 146 This Week
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    aria2 - CLI Metalink/BitTorrent client

    A multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility

    aria2 is a multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink. It can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth.
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    Downloads: 156 This Week
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    phpList

    phpList

    Powerful Open Source Email Marketing app with analytics & segmentation

    phpList delivers Open Source email marketing, including analytics, list segmentation, content personalisaton and bounce processing. Extensive technical features and a secure and stable codebase are the result of over 17 years of continuous development. Used in 95 countries, available in 20+ languages, and used to send 25 billion email campaigns last year. Deploy it with your own SMTP server, or get a free hosted account at http://phplist.com.
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    Downloads: 159 This Week
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    Mumble

    Mumble

    Low-latency, high quality voice chat for gamers

    Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players.
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    Downloads: 95 This Week
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    RSS Owl | RSS / RDF / Atom Feed Reader

    RSS Owl | RSS / RDF / Atom Feed Reader

    RSS Owl is a powerful application to organize, search and read feeds.

    RSS Owl is a powerful application to organize, search and read your news feeds in a comfortable way. It runs cross platform on Windows, Linux and Mac and can also be installed into Eclipse. RSS Owl is translated into the popular languages of the world. Some of the unique highlights are tabbed reading, powerful searches that can be saved, news filters with automated actions, embedded browser and newspaper layout, tray notifications, clean-up wizard and powerful user customization. RSSOwl requires no installation, simply start it with a doubleclick and find a large list of sample feeds already provided. For your convinience, an installer is provided on Windows. On Linux, you can obtain RSSOwl from the online repository (http://www.rssowl.org). You can also easily import existing feeds from other readers into RSSOwl.
    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    Frost
    Freenet front end written in Java. Supports multiple up/downloads, messages, searching and more.
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    Downloads: 108 This Week
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    GeoNetwork opensource - Metadata Catalog
    A web based Metadata Catalog Server for data description and discovery. Supports both generic and geospatial data discovery. It implements international standards (e.g. ISO19115/19139/19119, ISO19115-3, DCAT-AP, CSW 2.0, OGC API Records). It originates from the United Nations and is used by many governments as geoportal software. Active development and discussion takes place on GitHub and OSGeo Discourse. You can also connect directly with the companies supporting the development. Source code available on github https://github.com/geonetwork/
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    Downloads: 106 This Week
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    phpMyChat

    phpMyChat

    Standalone chat system developed in php, mysql and javascript

    phpMyChat-Plus is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room PHP/DB chat. It is currently available for MySQLi, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports IRC-like commands, moderators, is available in 24 languages and fully compatible with php7.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    PHP Address Book

    Simple, web-based address & phone book

    Simple, web-based address & phone book, contact manager, organizer. Groups, addresses, e-Mails, phone numbers & birthdays. vCards, LDIF, Excel, iPhone, Gmail & Google-Maps supported. PHP / MySQL based.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    NOCC
    NOCC is a simple and fast Webmail client which can handle POP3 and IMAP mailboxes and sends email via SMTP. It is written with PHP, has low requirements (no database, frames). Features multi-language support, MIME attachments, displays HTML messages. The installation guide comes with the source code: https://sourceforge.net/p/nocc/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/webmail/docs/INSTALL If you encounter problems or bugs you can always try the current HEAD version: https://sourceforge.net/p/nocc/code/HEAD/tarball?path= Questions, bug reports or support requests are very welcome: https://sourceforge.net/p/nocc/_list/tickets Alternative source code repository: https://github.com/oheil/NOCC
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    eMule Plus
    eMule Plus is an evolution of the original eMule project, created to improve its abilities and features, in both work efficiency and user interface.
    Downloads: 45 This Week
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    Owl is a multi user document repository (knowledgebase) , document manager and/or document management system (DMS) written in PHP for publishing of files/documents onto the web for a corporation, small business, group of people, or just for yourself. Final Code Hosted on GitHub
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    QmailAdmin is a web interface for managing email addresses in virtual domains created by Vpopmail.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Claroline

    Claroline

    Open Source Learning Management System

    Claroline is collaborative learning environment based on PHP/mySQL. It allows teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web. The software provides group management, forums, document repositories, calendar, SCORM,...
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Adium

    Adium

    A multi-protocol instant messaging app for Mac OS X

    Adium is an Open Source, multi-protocol instant messaging application for Mac OS X. Adium supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, SIP/SIMPLE (Text), and Lotus Sametime. Additionally, it supports all of these applications at once so, even if you have multiple IM accounts, you don't have to log into each account separately.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Pydio Cells

    Pydio Cells

    Formerly AjaXplorer, file sharing platform for the enterprise

    Pydio Cells is the mature open source alternative to dropbox and box, for the enterprise. Why building your own box? You need to access your documents across multiple devices, and regularly share documents (weblinks) and folders with your contacts and teams. Still, using a consumer SaaS box or drive service is neither practical nor safe. And enterprise SaaS box or drive services are expensive and come with Disk Storage that you already have on your servers or private cloud. How to build your own box with Pydio? Easily install Pydio on your servers or cloud of choice, Simply share documents and folders with your teams, Administrate your box with an Entreprise grade console (rights, groups, plug ins), Access documents with a Web Gui, Smartphones and tablet apps (iOS, Android), Sync folders on your computer (PC, Mac, Linux).
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