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Advanced SystemCare 9 is an easy-to-use yet comprehensive PC optimization utility that takes one click approach to clean, optimize,...

By IObit | Added January 18, 2016

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware combines powerful new technologies built to seek out, destroy, and prevent malware infections. Malwarebytes...

By Malwarebytes | Added October 13, 2015

AVG AntiVirus FREE is now part of AVG Protection FREE, a single anti-malware package that lets you protect an UNLIMITED number of Windows...

By AVG Technologies USA | Added October 15, 2015

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system allowing Windows to...

By Piriform | Added 2 days ago

Avast Free Antivirus 2016 offers an antivirus and anti-malware protection, along with features you're most likely to need, but would...

By AVAST Software | Added November 23, 2015

VirtualDJ is a software used by DJs to replace their turntables and CD players, and use digital music instead of vinyl and CDs. It...

By Atomix Productions | Added 2 days ago

Would you like to watch your favorite videos from YouTube whenever and wherever you please? With this download manager you can save...

By HOW | Added 1 day ago

PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF,...

By Mooii | Added September 28, 2015

YTD Video Downloader is more than a Youtube downloader. It allows you to download HD and HQ videos, from dozens of sites and convert...

By GreenTree Applications | Added 3 days ago

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2,...

By VideoLAN Project | Added April 16, 2015

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Free Software Magazine: articles on free software

June 29, 2015

System resources are always limited, no matter what type of computer or server you're using. You never seem to have enough RAM, CPU threads, or disk I/O. High level tools like top, htop,sar, iostat, or vmstat do help, but they only give you the 10,000 foot overview of resource usage. They don't allow you to see what part of which program or process is eating up too much RAM or which part is creating race conditions on lock files.

A much more powerful took is "Atop", a powerful monitor program that allows you to see system-level counters concerning utilization of CPU and memory/swap, as well as see disk I/O and network utilization counters at the system level -- in real time or historically. It also allows you to store raw counters in a file for long-term analysis on system levels and process levels, as well as seeing resource consumption for each thread within a process of a multi-processor program.

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Browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier

Free anti spy tool for Windows 10

Tweak and optimize Windows 10, make your system faster, more stable, personal and more secure.

The Tor Browser Bundle prevents the NSA watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

Kodi (formerly known as XBMC Media Center) is an easy to use media center application for all your media, with a slick interface.

Protection against the newest viruses, it is extremely light as all the work is done in the cloud

Latest version of the Mozilla Browser with a revamped look and lots of improved features.

Assembles over 100 PC hardware diagnosis tools into one bootable CD to analyze and repair hard drives and to fix boot problems (CD iso)

If you need to install or reinstall Windows 10, you can use the Media Creation Tool to create your own installation media using either a USB flash drive or a DVD.

Run your favorite Android apps and games on your PC.

Provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), includes previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 platform (DVD iso)

Includes all previously released updates for the operating system and some new functions.

360 Total Security combines several antivirus engines, malware protection and tools to speed up and clean your PC.

Allows your browser (and your system) to run Java applications

If you need to install or reinstall Windows 10, you can use the Media Creation Tool to create your own installation media using either a USB flash drive or a DVD.

Provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), includes previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 platform (DVD iso)

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.

Your very own movie studio

Includes all previously released updates for the operating system and some new functions.

Required to run applications developed to target the .NET Framework 4

Provides the latest updates to the 2007 Microsoft Office suite

Your very own movie studio

Multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, Quicktime, Real and various streaming protocols

Manage and share your photos & videos and burn files to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc

Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, SWF, 3GP, DVD, MPEG, MP3, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Android, rip & burn DVD, convert online videos directly from 40+ sites, burn Blu-ray, and upload to YouTube

Versatile media player which can cover various types of audio and (HD) video formats

Watch real live TV online on your PC

Advanced video editor. Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, because Adobe no longer supports them.

Browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier

Turn your computer into a WiFi Access Point, with support for 3G/4G

Latest version of the Mozilla Browser with a revamped look and lots of improved features.

Allows your browser (and your system) to run Java applications

Download smarter and faster

Compact & very fast browser

The Tor Browser Bundle prevents the NSA watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.

Provides the latest updates to the 2007 Microsoft Office suite

Enjoy trying out the next generation of Office that's still being developed. Product key: NKGG6-WBPCC-HXWMY-6DQGJ-CPQVG

Store and arrange all your passwords, user IDs, and related information

Graph and evaluate functions, perform many types of conversions

Create vector images for logos, fonts and illustrations. Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, because Adobe no longer supports them.

Advanced photo editor. Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, because Adobe no longer supports them.

Manage and share your photos & videos and burn files to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc

Set of image editing tools

Versatile photo editor. Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, because Adobe no longer supports them.

Zoner Photo Studio is a quality photo editor for creative work with your photos. It covers a photographers complete workflow, from downloading to organizing large collections to editing and publishing.

Create vector images for logos, fonts and illustrations. Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products, because Adobe no longer supports them.

Multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, Quicktime, Real and various streaming protocols

Versatile media player which can cover various types of audio and (HD) video formats

MP3-based mixing station with two virtual turntables

DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes

Multifunctional media converter, capable of ripping CDs and DVDs

Protection against the newest viruses, it is extremely light as all the work is done in the cloud

360 Total Security combines several antivirus engines, malware protection and tools to speed up and clean your PC.

Anti virus utility with new DynaGen technology, that also protect against malware, spyware and rootkits.

Anti virus utility that detects and stops viruses, threats and malware.

The Tor Browser Bundle prevents the NSA watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

Store and arrange all your passwords, user IDs, and related information

Free and fully anonymous Internet with access to information, films and TV series in restricted areas

Turn your computer into a WiFi Access Point, with support for 3G/4G

Helps you find and connect to open wireless access points with a single mouseclick

Turn your laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot and share your Internet connection.

Free and fully anonymous Internet with access to information, films and TV series in restricted areas

BatteryCare is created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery. It monitors the battery's discharge cycles, helps increasing it's autonomy and improves its lifetime.

Fixes short laptop battery life and actually tells you how much battery life you can save by turning unneeded features of your laptop off

Find all available wireless networks

Turn your computer into a WiFi Access Point, with support for 3G/4G

Helps you find and connect to open wireless access points with a single mouseclick

Turn your laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot and share your Internet connection.

Instantly take control over a computer anywhere on the Internet, even through firewalls

Tune and optimize your Internet connection

Find all available wireless networks

Discover the Wi-Fi networks around you with this very last free version of inSSIDer

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS.

Mobogenie is a personal manager for your Android phone. Transfer all the apps, contacts, SMS, music and other data between PC, phone, and the cloud.

Software bundle from Microsoft containing Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar and Family Safety

Free calls, text and picture sharing with anyone, anywhere!

Software bundle from Microsoft containing Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery, Writer, Toolbar and Family Safety.

Store and sync your email, calendar, contacts, files and documents in the cloud - yet have them locally accessible and aggregate information across accounts like Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail and social networks like Facebook and Twitter

Manage and share your photos & videos and burn files to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc

Burn & copy CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, HD-DVDs and ISOs

CD, DVD, BD and HD DVD data recovery

Allows users to play CDs DVDs without the need for the physical disc

Play DVD ISOs like a physical disk with this virtual dvd player

Video DVD authoring and burning

Insert CD / DVD, select Image, burn

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List of Free GNU/Linux Distributions – GNU Project – Free …

This page is maintained by the Free Software Foundation's Licensing and Compliance Lab. You can support our efforts by making a donation to the FSF. Have a question not answered here? Check out some of our other licensing resources or contact the Compliance Lab at licensing@fsf.org.

The Free Software Foundation is not responsible for other web sites, or how up-to-date their information is.

This page lists the GNU/Linux distributions that are entirely free as in freedom. All of the distributions that follow are installable to a computer's hard drive; most can be run live.

The Free Software Foundation recommends and endorses these GNU/Linux distros, although we do not try to judge or compare them based on any criterion other than freedom; therefore, we list them in alphabetical order. We encourage you to read these brief descriptions and to consult their respective web sites and other information to choose the one best for you.

These distros are ready-to-use full systems whose developers have made a commitment to follow the Guidelines for Free System Distributions. This means these distros will include, and propose, exclusively free software. They will reject nonfree applications, nonfree programming platforms, nonfree drivers, nonfree firmware blobs, nonfree games, and any other nonfree software, as well as nonfree manuals or documentation.

If one of these distros ever does include or propose anything nonfree, that must have happened by mistake, and the developers are committed to removing it. If you find nonfree software or documentation in one of these distributions, you can report the problem, and earn GNU Bucks, while we inform the developers so they can fix the problem.

Fixing freedom bugs is an ethical requirement for listing a distro here; therefore, we list only distros with a development team that has told us it will remove any nonfree software that might be found in them. Usually the team consists of volunteers, and they don't make legally binding commitments to users; but if we find out a distro is not properly maintained, we will de-list it.

We hope the other existing GNU/Linux distributions will become entirely free software so that we can list them here. If you wish to improve the state of free distros, helping to develop an existing free distro contributes more than starting a new one.

All of the distributions that follow are installable to a computer's hard drive; most can be run live. Not all hardware works in the free world; each distro's site should say which hardware it supports.

We endorse these distros only for freedom. We do not try to judge or compare these distros based on any other criterion; therefore, we list them in alphabetical order. We suggest you consult their respective web sites and other information to judge which one is most convenient for you.

Below is a list of small system distributions. These distributions are meant for devices with limited resources, like a wireless router for example. A free small system distribution is not self-hosting, but it must be developable and buildable on top of one of the free complete systems listed above, perhaps with the aid of free tools distributed alongside the small system distribution itself.

In addition to their own sites, many of these distributions are available from mirror.fsf.org. Feel free to download or mirror the distributions from there, preferably using rsync. Free distribution maintainers can request a mirror for their project by mailing the FSF sysadmins.

Non-GNU-based free system distributions are listed in a separate file.

We list companies that sell hardware preinstalled with a free GNU/Linux distribution separately.

Individual GNU packages (most of which are included in the free distributions here) are described separately.

Do you know about a distribution that you expected to find on our list, but didn't? First, check our page about why we don't endorse some common distributions. That page explains the reasons why several well-known distributions don't meet our guidelines. If the distribution isn't listed there either, and you think it qualifies for a listing under our guidelines, then please let the distribution's maintainers know about this page and encourage them to get in touchwe'd like to hear from them.

If you maintain a distribution that follows the Free System Distribution Guidelines and would like to be listed here, please write to us at with an introduction and a link to the project Web site. When you do, we'll explain more about our evaluation process to you, and get started on it quickly. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Free Software philosophy – GNU

See audio-video.gnu.org for recordings of Richard Stallman's speeches.

Free software means that the software's users have freedom. (The issue is not about price.) We developed the GNU operating system so that users can have freedom in their computing.

Specifically, free software means users have the four essential freedoms: (0) to run the program, (1) to study and change the program in source code form, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to distribute modified versions.

Software differs from material objectssuch as chairs, sandwiches, and gasolinein that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These facilities are why software is useful; we believe a program's users should be free to take advantage of them, not solely its developer.

For further reading, please select a section from the menu above.

We also maintain a list of most recently added articles.

We also keep a list of Organizations that Work for Freedom in Computer Development and Electronic Communications.

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