Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Communications Software

Communications Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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

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    WinSCP

    WinSCP

    WinSCP is a free SFTP, SCP, S3, WebDAV, and FTP client for Windows.

    WinSCP is a popular free file manager for Windows supporting SFTP, FTP, FTPS, SCP, S3, WebDAV and local-to-local file transfers. A powerful tool to enhance your productivity with a user-friendly interface and automation options like .NET assembly or batch file scripting. Use WinSCP also for file editing, directory synchronization and site management. WinSCP is open-source and well documented. It is available in English and many other languages.
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    Downloads: 230,878 This Week
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    BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)

    BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger)

    You can message and share files inside your intranet without a server.

    BeeBEEP is a secure (encryption based on Rijndael Algorithm, AES) peer to peer office messenger. You can talk and send files with all your colleagues inside a local area network such of an office, home or internet cafe without a server. BeeBEEP works also with VPNs. This serverless application is indispensable in all those places where privacy and security an essential requirement. For more info visit: https://www.beebeep.net
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    Downloads: 2,267 This Week
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    VTun is the easiest way to create Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks with traffic shaping, compression, and encryption. It supports IP, Ethernet, PPP and other tunnel types. VTun is easily and highly configurable. VPN, Mobile IP, Shaping, etc
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    Downloads: 6,428 This Week
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    The portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK provides support for building UPnP-compliant control points, devices, and bridges on several operating systems. The main repository is at GitHub in https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp. This is just a clone repository for legacy reasons. Old SourceForge repo: git://pupnp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pupnp/pupnp
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    Downloads: 2,893 This Week
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    Matroska is an open standard audio/video container format. Visit our homepage at http://www.matroska.org
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    Downloads: 1,235 This Week
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    Snap7

    Snap7

    32/64 bit multi-platform Ethernet S7 PLC communication suite

    Snap7, through three specialized components: Client and the inedited Server and Partner, allows you to definitively integrate your PC based systems into a PLC automation chain. Designed to transfer large amounts of hi-speed data in industrial facilities, it scales easily, down to small Linux Arm boards such as Raspberry PI. Hi level object oriented wrappers are provided, currently C/C++, .NET/Mono, Pascal, LabVIEW, Python with many source code examples. Very easy to use, a full working server example is not bigger than the “Hello world”. Many projects/makefiles are ready to run to easily rebuild Snap7 in any platform without the need of be a C++ guru. Very detailed documentation provided.
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    Downloads: 978 This Week
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    DC++

    DC++

    A Windows client for the Direct Connect networks

    DC++ is an open source Windows client for the Direct Connect file sharing network. The DC network is a decentralized network, made up of individual servers (hubs) that users join to share files with other members on that hub. Each hub is individually run by a fellow user of the DC network, and may have certain themes to the content on the hub. Hub owners set up rules to regulate their hub as they see fit.
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    Downloads: 959 This Week
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    aria2 - CLI Metalink/BitTorrent client

    A multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility

    aria2 is a multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink. It can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth.
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    Downloads: 695 This Week
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    MSHV

    MSHV

    MSHV Amateur Radio Software

    MSHV Amateur Radio Software. Developed by LZ2HV - Christo mail: lz2hv@abv.bg Supported working modes: MSK144 MSKMS JTMS FSK441 FSK315 ISCAT JT6M FT8/4 JT65 PI4 Q65 System Requirements: Microsoft Windows Xp, Windows 7,8,10,11 32 or 64 Bit, Linux Fedora (Red hat), Ubuntu (Debian) . Compiling: MinGw recommended GCC 7.3.0 thread model posix. QT5.6.3 library. IDE recommended QDevelop 0.29. All other libraries included inside the source. Acknowledgements to K1JT Joe Taylor and WSJT Development Group. The algorithms, source code, look-and-feel of WSJT-X and related programs, and protocol specifications for the modes FSK441, FT8, JT4, JT6M, JT9, JT65, JTMS, QRA64, ISCAT, MSK144, are Copyright © 2001-2017 by one or more of the following authors: Joseph Taylor, K1JT; Bill Somerville, G4WJS; Steven Franke, K9AN; Nico Palermo, IV3NWV; Greg Beam, KI7MT; Michael Black, W9MDB; Edson Pereira, PY2SDR; Philip Karn, KA9Q; and other members of the WSJT Development Group.
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    Downloads: 810 This Week
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    Moodle

    Moodle

    A free course management system (CMS) to create online learning sites

    Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. https://moodle.org/
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    Downloads: 522 This Week
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    gSOAP Toolkit

    gSOAP Toolkit

    Development toolkit for Web Services and XML data bindings for C & C++

    The gSOAP toolkit is an extensive suite of portable C and C++ software to develop XML Web services with powerful type-safe XML data bindings. Easy-to-use code-generator tools allow you to directly integrate XML data in C and C++. Serializes native application data in XML. Includes WSDL/XSD schema binding and auto-coding tools, stub/skeleton compiler, Web server integration with Apache module and IIS extension, high-performance XML processing with schema validation, fast MIME/MTOM streaming, SOAP and REST Web API development, WS-* protocols (WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, etc), XML-RPC and JSON. Licensed under GPLv2. Visit the developer center with guides, tutorials, and examples at www.genivia.com/dev.html The documentation of the toolkit, libraries, plugins and more is available at www.genivia.com/docs.html Commercial-use licenses and expert technical support services are available at competitive pricing levels, please visit www.genivia.com/products.html
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    Downloads: 394 This Week
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    Psi+

    Psi+

    Psi+ Project — development branch of Psi XMPP client

    Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP client designed for experienced users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi XMPP client. Previously is was a sort of fork but now just consider it as a space for nightly builds.
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    Downloads: 461 This Week
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    bogofilter -- Fast Bayesian Spam Filter

    Fast Bayesian spam filter along lines suggested by Paul Graham

    The bogofilter package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter as suggested by Paul Graham in "A Plan For Spam" <http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html>. It is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, RISC-OS, ...
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    Downloads: 109 This Week
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    Grsync
    Grsync is used to synchronize folders, files and make backups. It is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface).
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    Downloads: 54 This Week
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    MLDonkey is a multi-platform multi-network peer-to-peer client.
    Downloads: 55 This Week
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    A hack/port of Piero Orsoni's wonderful Grsync - rsync frontend in GTK - to Windows(win32).
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    Downloads: 54 This Week
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    BlackBelt Privacy Tor/i2p+WASTE+VidVoIP

    BlackBelt Privacy Tor/i2p+WASTE+VidVoIP

    Browse on Tor/i2p, Anon p2p Chat / FileTx, Conf / Video VoIP

    Open Source - GPLv3 inc images. *** PLEASE NOTE: There are now 2 seperate versions here. *** One is Pre Firefox 57. The other is Post Firefox 57. *** For those providing mirrors, please enable your users to realize this. Vidalia Based, Tor as a Service Solution. MicroSip: enables FREE PC to PC video calling with no account sign-up and no middleman server. WASTE: enables FREE Conference VoIP, chat, file transfer and support. *** AI Powered *** Tor/i2p: enables safer browsing. Tor/i2p Profile: Browse over Tor/i2p on Firefox (Vanilla, ESR), Waterfox (Classic, New), Palemoon , LibreWolf and legacy CyberFox. As with all versions of Tor - do not rely on this for strong anonymity. A usability enhanced Privacy Pack. Use alongside Tor Browser Bundle. An installer, for : Vista 32/64, Win7 32/64, Win8 32/64, Win10 32/64, Win11, Linux (Wine)
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    Siproxd is a proxy/masquerading daemon for the SIP protocol. It allows SIP clients (softphones & hardphones) to work behind an IP masquerading firewall or router.
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    Downloads: 47 This Week
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    Seagull is a multi-protocol traffic generator. Especially targeted towards IMS, Seagull supports Diameter (RFC3588 and all applications) over TCP/SCTP and IPv4/IPv6 , TCAP (over SS7 or Sigtran), XCAP over HTTP and Radius.
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    Repeater-START

    Repeater-START

    Showing The Amateur radio Repeaters Tool

    Repeater-START (Showing The Amateur Repeaters Tool) is an app to view nearby ham radio repeaters. It runs on Windows, Android, Ubuntu Linux and Raspbian for Raspberry-pi, Librem Phone, Pinephone/Manjaro Linux etc.
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    Downloads: 141 This Week
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    Utility to test and create .sfv and test .par on Unix and Windows. Easy scripting. Also Handy in dos environment. Recursive directories handling. Tested files database.
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    Downloads: 69 This Week
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    This project implements a simple STUN server and client on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. The STUN protocol (Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs) is described in the IETF RFC 3489, available at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3489.txt
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    Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS

    Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS

    Transfer disks and disk images between the Apple II and the real world

    Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS (ADTPro) transfers classic 8-bit Apple disk images over a serial, ethernet or audio link to a more modern computer. Based on the seminal ADT, ADTPro can transfer any ProDOS- or SOS-visible volume.
    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    Enhanced CTorrent is a BitTorrent client for unix-like environments. High performance with minimal system resources and dependencies is a priority.
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    eMule Plus
    eMule Plus is an evolution of the original eMule project, created to improve its abilities and features, in both work efficiency and user interface.
    Downloads: 74 This Week
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