Love Open Source? Try These 10 Cool Apps!

Your operating system and browser are something you use everyday. Add to that office productivity software, music or video player, and certain games: you can't ask for more! However, you must know there is a life beyond the usual as well. Whether you've never used open source software before or you're a long-time Linux user, you will find plenty of applications that will make your lives easier. The following open source apps are worth a try!

1.Inkscape

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format, and is free and open-source software.

2.Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.

3.Plone

Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. In principle, Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops and internal websites. It is also well positioned to be used as a document publishing system and groupware collaboration tool.

4.KeePass

KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, cross-platform and light-weight password management utility for Microsoft Windows, with unofficial ports for Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. KeePass stores all usernames, passwords, other fields, including free-form Notes, in a securely encrypted database, protected by a single master password and/or key file.

5.Gallery

Gallery is an open source web based photo album organiser. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.

6.Feng Office

Feng Office Community Edition (formerly OpenGoo) is an open source collaboration platform developed and supported by Feng Office and the OpenGoo community. It is a fully featured online office suite with a similar set of features as other online office suites, like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Live, Zimbra, and Zoho.

7.Magento

Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on 31 March, 2008 under the name Bento. Magento was built using parts of the Zend Framework. It uses the entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data.

8.OpenEMR

OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application. It is ONC Complete Ambulatory EHR Certified and it features fully integrated electronic health records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalisation, free support, a vibrant community, and a whole lot more. It can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and many other platforms.

9.GnuCash

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses.

10.FrontAccounting

FrontAccounting (FA) is a professional web-based accounting system for the entire ERP chain written in PHP, using MySQL. FA is multilingual and multicurrency.