Open Source Communications Software

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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: 16,608 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: 2,987 This Week
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    Shareaza

    Shareaza

    A universal P2P file sharing client for Windows

    Shareaza is a very powerful multi-network peer-to-peer file-sharing client supporting Gnutella² G2, Gnutella, eDonkey2000 / eMule, DC++, HTTP, FTP and BitTorrent / DHT protocols for Windows or Wine.
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    Downloads: 1,821 This Week
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    FileZilla®

    FileZilla®

    A fast cross-platform FTP client

    FileZilla® is a cross-platform FTP, SFTP, and FTPS client with a vast list of features, which supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and more. FileZilla's dynamic tools help you move files between your local machine and your Web site's server effortlessly. For example, Filezilla lets you compare your files with in-directory server files to manage file syncing. You can also tab browse between servers and transfer files to them simultaneously, as well as edit server files on the go. And Filezilla is available in 47 languages worldwide!
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    Downloads: 1,668 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: 7,881 This Week
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    Torrent File Editor

    Torrent File Editor

    Qt based GUI tool designed to create and edit .torrent files

    Project moved to https://torrent-file-editor.github.io/
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    Downloads: 492 This Week
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    Psi+

    Psi+

    Psi+ Project — development branch of Psi XMPP client

    Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.
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    Downloads: 565 This Week
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    Psi

    Psi

    Psi IM — Qt-based XMPP client

    Psi is cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. There are builds available for MS Windows, GNU/Linux and macOS.
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    Downloads: 314 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: 327 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: 161 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: 145 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: 94 This Week
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    Makagiga

    Makagiga

    To-do manager, notepad, RSS reader...

    Makagiga is an open-source, easy-to-use, portable application for doing a variety of tasks, such as todo listing, text editing, or RSS reading. Plugins are used to implement its various capabilities.
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    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    Swish
    Access your remote files over SFTP directly from Windows Explorer and 'My Computer'.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Envy

    Envy

    Refined P2P Filesharing + BitTorrent

    Envy is a powerful multi-network p2p filesharing and torrent client for Windows or Wine. A mature mainstream fork of Shareaza. Highly skinnable, with BitTorrent/DHT, G2/Gnutella², Gnutella, ED2K/eMule, DC++, http/ftp protocols -and blacklist support baked in. Let others browse your public files.
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    Downloads: 20 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: 69 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: 12 This Week
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    Kiax is a softphone (soft phone, VoIP client) with a simple and comfortable user interface for making VoIP calls to Asterisk PBX. It depends on the iaxclient library to use Asterisk's IAX2 protocol for easy call configuration and audio setup.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    PeerProject

    PeerProject

    Diverse P2P Filesharing

    PeerProject is a versatile peer-to-peer filesharing client and file manager. Intuitive and aesthetic while supporting many networks and features. BitTorrent, G2, Gnutella, eDonkey, DC++, IRC, http/ftp & more. Mainstream fork of Shareaza p2p, for Windows & WINE. Note: This project is idle, see Envy fork for further development.
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    Downloads: 10 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: 7 This Week
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    Mibew Messenger 1.x
    "Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    EGroupware Enterprise Collaboration
    EGroupware has moved to Github, please find all our downloads there: https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/releases EGroupware is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite. Currently available modules include: email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls), content management, wiki, project management, tracker, timesheet, knowledge base, CalDAV/CardDAV
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Mibew Messenger 3
    Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.
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    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    Claws Mail
    Claws Mail is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast e-mail client and newsreader. Supports POP3, APOP, IMAP, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, LDAP, multiple accounts, spell-checking, addressbook, SSL, GPG, filtering, i18n, & more. It is further extended by plugins.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat

    Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.

    MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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