Open source on Mac

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PPC Linux distributions

Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/) Kubuntu (http://www.kubuntu.org.uk/) Debian-based Linux distibutions that run on PowerMacs and PowerBooks. Ubuntu features GNOME desktop environment, while Kubuntu is based on KDE.

Debian (http://www.us.debian.org/) Free operating system for your computer.

Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/) The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community.

Yellow Dog Linux (http://yellowdoglinux.com/) Yellow Dog Linux is Terra Soft’s most complete offering to date with support for the iMac G5s and Mac minis too! Yellow Dog Linux v4.0.1 is a Fedora / RPM-based operating system for PowerPC computers, offering an intuitive, flexible graphical installer, 1300 packages on 8 CDs (4 Install, 4 Source), a unified KDE and GNOME desktop environment featuring shared menus, applications, and user interface. (Thanks to Jay Savage for this link)

openSUSE (http://www.opensuse.org/)Linux distribution sponsored by Novell. (Thanks to Michael Cochez for this link)

Office, text, productivity

OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/) OpenOffice.org MacOS X port that requires X11.

NeoOffice/J (http://www.neooffice.org/) OpenOffice.org MacOS X port that doesn’t require X11.

AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth.

Smultron (http://smultron.sourceforge.net/) Smultron is an open–source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X Panther with many of the features that you might need. It features easy selection of the opened documents, line numbers, support for syntax colouring for many different languages, support for text encodings, code snippets, a toolbar, a status bar, HTML preview, multi-document find and replace with regular expressions, possibility to show invisible characters, authenticated saves, command-line utility, .Macsynchronisation of preferences and many more features.

iTeXMac (http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/) iTeXMac is an integrated software which components are: a text editor dedicated to D.E. Knuth’s TeX typesetting system, a frontend to a teTeX like distribution that includes TeX engines and tools.

Aquamacs (http://aquamacs.org/) Aquamacs is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor. By “Aqua-native,” we mean more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard OS X application. Aquamacs features extensive customization that enables it to conform better with Apple’s standard Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) than standard versions of the editor do.

TeXShop (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html) TeXShop is a TeX previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa. Since pdf is a native file format on OS X, TeXShop uses “pdftex” and “pdflatex” rather than “tex” and “latex” to typeset; these programs in the standard teTeX distribution of TeX produce pdf output instead of dvi output. (Thanks to Jay Savage for this link)

MacDING (http://macding.sourceforge.net/) MacDING is an English German dictionary lookup program for Mac OS X. It is an implementation of Frank Richter’s DING (DIctionary Nice Grep) lookup program for Unix/Linux.

WordNet for Mac OS X (http://wordnet.sourceforge.net/) WordNet is an online lexical reference system (it’s a dictionary and much much more) developed at Princeton University’s Cognitive Science Laboratory under the direction of Professor George A. Miller.

GanttProject (http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/) Project management application.

OmegaT (http://www.omegat.org/omegat/requirements.html) Memory translation tool.

kGTD (http://kinkless.com/kgtd) Essentially, kGTD is a single OmniOutliner document with some fiddly bits (ok, we can call them “buttons” if you are going to get all technical) that allow you to manage two views of your GTD tasks: projects and actions. You can archive completed projects to get them out of the way, and it should all look lovely in whatever colors and fonts you choose.

BibDesk (http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/) BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format.

Task List (http://idisk.mac.com/gonfunko/Public/tasklist.html) Task List is the simple way to manage your homework. After all, it’s bad enough that you have to do homework in the first place – why should keeping track of it be difficult tooTask List 5 builds on the many features of Task List 4, and offers you even more ways to keep track of what you need to do. Even better, it makes it easy to actually do something about your homework, with features such as multiple file attachments for each task, a built-in tabbed notes editor, and convenient reference information and links, just like your composition notebook.

Bean (http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html) Bean is a light-weight word processor that supports live word count, backups, autosaving, page layout mode, etc.

* Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/) Skim is a PDF Reader and note-taker for OS X. Skim is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF.

* Actiontastic (http://www.kaboomerang.com/blog/category/actiontastic/) GTD application.

Graphics, sound and video

Gimp.app (http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/) A self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X.

Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3Cstandard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. (Thanks to Eric Hummel for this link)

Seashore (http://seashore.sourceforge.net/) Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based on GIMP and uses the same native file format.

Pixen (http://www.opensword.org/Pixen/) Pixen is the best program for the pixel artist using Mac OS X. (Thanks to Ian Henderson for this link)

Album Shaper (http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net/index.shtml) Album Shaper strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, open source application for organizing, annotating, framing, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos.

imgSeek (http://mortimer.hp.infoseek.co.jp/en/imgSeek.html) imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply (or an image in your collection).

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) VLC is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc.) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Blender (http://www.blender3d.org/) 3D graphics creation application. (Thanks to Nick Schoeneberger for this link)

Cog (http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/) Cog is an audio player for Mac OS X written with Cocoa. It supports many popular file formats, including Ogg Vorbis, Flac, Musepack, Mp3, and Monkeys Audio.

Juice (http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php) Juice is the premier Podcasting application, allowing users to capture and listen to Internet audio programs anytime, anywhere.

DTV (http://participatoryculture.org/download.php) DTV is a new, free and open–source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library.

MP3 Sushi (http://maliasoft.appeule.com/us/mp3sushi.html) MP3 Sushi is a set of two applications: MP3 Sushi Server and MP3 Buddies. MP3 Sushi Server allows you to turn yourMac into a jukebox or a radio broadcast station in a few clicks. Thanks to the Rendezvous technology, MP3 Buddies makes it easy to find every jukebox and radio servers on your local network.

HandBrake (http://handbrake.m0k.org/) HandBrake is a multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. (Thanks to Avi Flax for this link)

Jahshaka (http://www.jahshaka.org/) The world’s first open–source realtime editing and effects system. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. (Thanks to Jeff Greenberg for this link)

CenterStage (http://centerstageproject.com/) CenterStage is on open source project to build a powerful and intuitive media center application for the Apple Macintosh, this project was inspired by the launch of the Mac mini, an ideal Mac to use as part of a home theatre system.

Synfig (http://www.synfig.com/) Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can. (Thanks to Daniel-Philipp Gona for this link)

ImagePlay (http://imageplay.sourceforge.net/) Run a series of effects on an image; tweak them, rearrange them, remove them, all without messing up the source image.

* MPlayerOSX (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/) MPlayerOSX is binary distribution of MPlayer (The Movie Player for Linux) and comes with native GUI in MacOSX.

Internet and network

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) Full-featured web browser.

Camino (http://www.caminobrowser.org/) The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.

Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) E-mail client that features intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, RSS support, privacy protection and much more.

Fugu (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/) Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception.

Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) An open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser licenced under the GPL.

OneButton FTP (http://www.onebutton.org/) OneButton FTP is a project with the goal of creating an open source graphical FTP client for Mac OS X (10.3.9 and above) using the Cocoa framework.

Colloquy (http://colloquy.info/) Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

Adium X (http://www.adiumx.com/) A multi-protocol instant messaging client, which utilizes libgaim (the core part of gaim) to connect to multiple protocols, and is also based on a new plugin architecture. Partial address book integration, cool looking tabs, and multiple protocols for instant messaging.

RSSOwl (http://www.rssowl.org/) RSS/Atom/RDF reader.

Lucane (http://lucane.org/groupware/) Modular client/server groupware solution.

Nvu (http://nvu.com/) A visual web authoring softwar based on Mozilla Composer.

Joust (http://joustedit.sourceforge.net/) Joust is a simple yet powerful HTML editor programmed for Mac OS X using Cocoa frameworks. Includes live previewing and helpful programming tools.

Poisoned (http://gottsilla.net/) Poisoned is a file sharing application for Mac OS X. Poisoned may look like your average file sharing application at first glance, but it is so much more.

Vienna (http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.html) Vienna is an open source freeware Mac OSX RSS reader with support for RSS/Atom feeds, article storage and management via a SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa.

OSXnews (http://osxnews.sourceforge.net/new/) OSXnews is a small fast, lightweight nntp news (usenet) client for OSX written from scratch in Objective C and Cocoa.

BitTorrent (http://www.bittorrent.com/) BitTorrent is not just a concept, but has an easy-to-use implementation capable of swarming downloads across unreliable networks. BitTorrent has been embraced by numerous publishers to distribute to millions of users. (Thanks to Eric Hummel for this link)

KisMAC (http://kismac.binaervarianz.de/index.php) KisMAC is a free stumbler application for MacOS X, that puts your card into the monitor mode. Unlike most other applications for OS X it has the ability to run completely invisible and send no probe requests.

Irssix (http://adlr.info/rssix) Irssix is a Free (GPL) irc client for Mac OS X. It is based on the fabulous unix irc client Irssi.

Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users. (Thanks to Eric Hummel for this link)

BlogBridge (http://www.blogbridge.com/) BlogBridge is a Java-based open source news aggregator. (Thanks to David Coletta for this link)

Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/) Zimbra is an open–source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with existing infrastructure and applications. (Thanks to Kevin Henrikson for the link)

Shiira (http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/en) Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. Cocoalicious (http://www.scifihifi.com/cocoalicious/) A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X.

iStumbler (http://www.istumbler.net/) iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.

Feed (http://keeto.net/feed/) Feed is designed to work like a mail program and includes a simple single window interface. Individual articles are displayed directly in Feed using WebKit (the Safari web engine) which means less clicking and more reading.

* Cabos (http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/) Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition.

* Transmission (http://transmission