
LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a PHP survey software to create online surveys. Features open/closed surveys, branching, participant administration, quotas, WYSIWYG HTML editor, email invitations & reminders, assessments, basic statistics and more.




Userful Pre-Book is a full featured, open source, PC booking and reservation system. Patrons can book time on a computer from home, the office, school or using a walk-up booking at the library itself. Policy settings ensure that the library retains full control over usage.




Libki is a Computer Kiosk Management system. Libki is used to allow time limited access to computers on a network.




Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.




Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality.



Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.




Maxima is a computer mathematics program for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration and much more.




WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices.


Inquisitor is an open-source hardware testing and certification system, suitable for both enterprise and home use, customizable, modular and available in both serverless Live CD/DVD format and server-controlled network boot production system.


WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool. It displays your disk usage in a color-coded map that shows what file types and folders take up the most space on your hard drive.


Lilina is a simple aggregator which runs on your server, enabling you to access your news wherever you are. It supports both RSS and Atom and works with both PHP 4 and 5.



Harddisk partition editor


innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.




Domain Hunter is a simple application to monitor the state of a list of domain names. Changes in the status of a monitored domain can be sent to an email address or the domain information can be obtained on demand through a Web interface.




Free Open Source Computer Cloning Solution.


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