Open Source Desktop Environment Software

Desktop Environment Software

Browse free open source Desktop Environment software and projects for Windows and Server Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Desktop Environment software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    KeePass

    KeePass

    A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager

    KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details.
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    Downloads: 198,062 This Week
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    GnuWin

    GnuWin

    Provides native Win32 open source ports and utilities

    GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
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    Downloads: 36,256 This Week
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    Cntlm is an NTLM / NTLMv2 authenticating HTTP/1.1 proxy. It caches auth'd connections for reuse, offers TCP/IP tunneling (port forwarding) thru parent proxy and much much more. It's in C, very fast and resource-efficient. Go to http://cntlm.sf.net/
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    Downloads: 273 This Week
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    JNode is a Java New Operating system Design Effort. JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use on modern devices. Any java application runs on it, fast and safe. See our homepage for additional information.
    Downloads: 65 This Week
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    GtkGLExt is an OpenGL extension to GTK+. It provides additional GDK objects which support OpenGL rendering in GTK+, and GtkWidget API add-ons to make GTK+ widgets OpenGL-capable.
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    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    TrueType fonts editor. Allows for editing vector-based glyphs
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Wcd is another Norton Change Directory (NCD) clone. Wcd is a command-line program to change directory fast. It includes a full screen interactive directory tree browser with speed search and a fast way to choose between multiple matches.
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    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    XUI is a Java and XML RIA platform for building smart app's. Swing, AWT and other widget sets can be used on a range of hardware. XUI's modular framework can help many aspects of application development. NetBeans and Eclipse are available.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    BGINFO4X - BGINFO for X and for Windows!

    Shows desktop information on your screen

    BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Microsoft Windows created by Sysinternals. BGINFO4X is designed for pretty print useful information (CPU model, Hostname, IP address, OS version, Office version, and much more ...) on your desktop background or wallpaper. See the screenshots to see BGINFO4X in action. BGINFO4X is Multi Platform (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, BSD). BGINFO4X is Highly Customizable. BGINFO4X is Open Source. BGINFO4X comes with lots of Features. See the main Features below on this page. Find more information in http://sourceforge.net/p/bginfo4x/wiki/BGINFO4X/
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    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Go from Code to Production URL in Seconds

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    On Screen Magnifier is an on screen movable magnifying glass for Windows 2000/XP written in delphi. It stays on the top and can drag anywhere.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    GeoShell is a Windows Shell Replacement. It replaces the standard 'Start Menu', 'Desktop', 'Task Bar' and 'system tray' of windows with a smaller, faster, and more configureable program, with an extensible bar-oriented minimal interface.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Lan Core is a free & open source software that lets you to build a thin client network on a Windows operating system. It was originally designed to work in a server or workstation with Windows XP Professional using the native remote desktop protocol.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Gourmet

    GNOME Recipe Manager w/ nutrition information and other useful plugins

    Gourmet Recipe Manager is now housed at http://thinkle.github.io/gourmet/ Gourmet is a recipe-organizer for GNOME that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching and entry of recipes. It imports mealmaster & mastercook files, as well as providing tools to help users import from text files or webpages. Gourmet can exports webpages & other formats. Gourmet has a plugin infrastructure allowing users to choose add-ins they want, such as a plugin to calculate nutritional information. Gourmet also includes an interactive python shell plugin which is a great way for new developers to get started playing around. Gourmet is now built on Python, SqlObject, and GTK tools. Among the plugins is an experimental web front-end which shows the way forward to other possible future front-ends.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    smooth is an object oriented class library for Win32 and Linux written in C++. It's meant to become an alternative to toolkits like Qt.
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Favorites Organizer
    Organize your favorites and/or bookmarks. https://favoriteorg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/favoriteorg/trunk/
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Provide secure and stable OS, based on highly modified Linux Kernel, own package system, like "BSD Ports". Compatible with x86, Power PC. Easy to use of any level users. Complete Documentantion in many languages. 99% compatible with Windows.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Global Translation and Localisation Team
    Translation team with the primary objective to translate and maintain the translations of some useful SourceForge.net Projects. GUI and CLI applications, PHP, Java and Documentation for Linux, Apple MAC & BSD and Windows. More info on our homepage.
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    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Pythońol is an all-in-one program to help English speakers learn Spanish. Features include: Pronunciation, verb conjugation, dictionary (70,000+ words), thesaurus, quizzes, full-text translation, idioms, a verb browser, and a large reference section.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Cloud Toolkit .Net provides many useful and good-looking .Net controls for use with .Net applications (VC++, VC#, VB.Net etc). Update (September 2011): The project has been inactive for a few years and will remain so. No support provided!
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