Open Source & Free Software

***IMPORTANT***
The following software is NOT supported by the Moorpark College Information Technology Services department.

Finding Free Software

• Download.com
  Read reviews and download safe, trusted, and spyware-free software with free trials or licenses.
• Free Software Directory
  A project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). A catalog of useful free software that runs under free operating systems.
• SourceForge.net
  The world's largest Open Source software development web site. Provides free hosting to Open Source software development projects with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code.

Favorites

Audio

• Audacity
  Cross-platform multitrack audio editor.

Blogging

• Blogger
  Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video.

Business & Productivity

• OpenOffice
  The free and open productivity suite by Sun Microsystems (compare to Microsoft Office).

FTP Clients

• FileZilla
  Free FTP solution.
• FireFTP
  Free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox.

Graphics

• Adobe Photoshop Express
  Online photo sharing and editing resource.
• GIMP
  Freely distributed software for photo retouching and image composition and authoring.
• Paint.NET
  Free software for digital photo editing. (Windows Users)
• Picasa
  Free photo editing and photo management software from Google.

Web Authoring

• SeaMonkey
  All-in-one internet application suite, including Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools.

About Open Source & Free Software

• GNU Free Software Licenses
• Open Source Initiative