Portal:Free and open-source software/categories

Types of software
The following types are the selected sub-categories of Category:Free software:


 * Antivirus software
 * Application servers
 * Astronomy software
 * Audio software
 * Backup software
 * BitTorrent clients
 * Business software
 * Compilers and interpreters
 * Computer-aided design software
 * Content management systems
 * Cross-platform software
 * Data compression software
 * Database management systems
 * Desktop environments
 * Development toolkits and libraries
 * Educational software
 * Email software
 * File managers
 * File transfer software
 * Games
 * GIS software
 * 2D graphics software
 * 3D graphics software
 * Groupware
 * HTML editors
 * Image galleries
 * Instant messengers
 * Internet forum software
 * IRC clients
 * Learning support software
 * Mathematics software
 * Media players
 * Multimedia codecs, containers, and splitters
 * Network management software
 * Note-taking software
 * Office suites
 * Operating systems
 * Optical disc authoring software
 * PDF software
 * Personal information managers
 * Project management software
 * Science software
 * Search engine software
 * Special purpose file systems
 * Spreadsheets
 * System software
 * Television software
 * TeX software
 * Text editors
 * Usenet clients
 * Version control software
 * Video software
 * VoIP software
 * Web browsers
 * Windowing systems
 * Word processors
 * X window managers

People, projects, and groupings

 * Apache Software Foundation projects
 * Free software programmers
 * Free and open-source software organizations
 * Members of the Free Software Foundation board of directors
 * Free Software Foundation
 * GNU project and GNU project software
 * Free software companies

Non-software materials

 * Free and open-source software licenses
 * Free software websites
 * Free-software awards
 * Free-software events
 * Copyleft
 * Free software culture and documents

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