Networking

Networking - Free and Open Source Educational Software

More useful networking tools are available on the OSWINS CD communications and security, and on the OSWKIDS CD programming and graphics.

Remote Access

Putty - ssh, telnet, rlogin client, plus support for tunnels, RSA and DSA keys, and file transfer with scp and sftp (Windows, Linux)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ (MIT License)

WinSCP - a nice GUI windows secure file transfer utility similar in operation to gFTP (Windows)

http://www.winscp.com/ (GPL)

FileZilla - FTP file manager GUI client for file transfer (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://filezilla-project.org/ (GPL)

openVPN - secure virtual private network and associated GUI front end (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://openvpn.net (Free, OpenVPN License, GPL)

Privoxy - private proxy is simple to configure and to monitor internet requests from your internal network (Windows, Linux)

http://www.privoxy.org/ (GPL)

FreeProxy - Proxy software for http and other protocols (Windows)

http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org/index.php?page=5 (Free)

TightVNC - virtual network console for remote administration (Windows, Linux)

http://www.tightvnc.com/ (GPL)

VNC - virtual network console viewer and server an alternative to rdesktop (Windows, Linux)

http://www.realvnc.com/ (Free Edition, GPL)

Fugu - ssh and scp GUI front end client (MacOSX)

http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu (Free)

OSXvnc - virtual network console (MacOSX)

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/vineosx (Free)

gFTP - file transfer program supporting ftp, ftps, http, https, ssh2 and fsp protocols (Linux)

http://www.gftp.org/ (GPL)

Samba - file and print server for Windows clients (Linux)

http://www.samba.org/ (GPL)

Metalink for large file downloads

DownThemAll - metalink addon for Firefox to allow stop and start downloads of large files (Windows, Linux)

http://www.downthemall.net/ (Free)

metalink_editor Hampus Metalink Editor for server (platform independent)

http://hampus.vox.nu/metalink/ (GPL)

wxDownloadFast - standalone metalink client (Windows, Linux)

http://dfast.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)

Aria2 - high speed download metalink client (Windows, Linux)

http://aria2.sourceforge.net (GPL)

Online Metalink Generator

http://metalinker.org

Web Tools

Kompozer - complete web authoring system (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://kompozer.net/ (GPL)

Xampp - Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5, phpMyAdmin 2.11, FileZilla FTP Server and OpenSSL

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html (GPL)

Xiopen - Xitami is a small powerful web server (Windows, Linux)

http://www.imatix.com/html/xitami/index.htm (Free)

Ruby - Instant Rails combines Apache, MySQL, ruby and rails (platform independent)

http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl a windows version of Ruby on Rails http://www.rubyonrails.org/ (GPL)

wamp - Apache Web Server, MySQL Database, PHP and phpMyAdmin all in one (Windows)

http://www.wampserver.com/en/ (GPL)

Amaya_wx - web page editor (Windows, Linux)

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ (GPL)

Apache - Apache Web Server (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.apache.org/ (GPL)

Abwsx1 - Abyss small powerful web server X1 Personal Edition (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/ (Free)

Savane - collaborative group work software using Apache web server and mySQL for issue tracking and project management (platform independent)

https://gna.org/projects/savane (GPL)

Swish-e - simple web indexing system for humans - enhanced (Windows, Linux)

http://swish-e.org/ (GPL)

MAMP - Apache Web Server, MySQL Database and PHP all in one (MacOSX)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mamp (GPL)

Network Management

cfEngine - configuration engine is used to administer computers remotely on your network (Windows requires Cygwin, Linux)

http://www.cfengine.org/ (GPL)

Cygwin - Linux like environment for Windows used to rebuild from source Linux applications so that they run on Windows (Windows)

http://www.cygwin.com/ (GPL)

Nino - Network management (Windows, Linux)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nino (GPL)

GNS-3 - Graphical Network Simulator to design complex network topologies (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)

http://www.gns3.net/ (GPL)

Open-AudIT - Comprehensive view of what devices are on your network (Windows, Linux)

http://open-audit.org/ (GPL)

Func - Fedora Unified Network Controller - remote control of machines remote using api for mangement, configation, and monitoring of systems (Fedora Linux)

http://fedorahosted.org/func (GPL)

Nagios - host, service and network monitoring (include pcp for system monitoring) (Linux)

http://www.nagios.org/ (GPL)

Pcp - Performance Co-Pilot for system level performance monitoring and management (Linux)

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/pcp/ (GPL)

Webmin - web based system administration allows you to manage services using your web browser (Linux)

http://www.webmin.net/ (GPL)

NS-allinone - Network Simulator and Network Animator (Linux)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/ (GPL)

haProxy - The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer (Linux)

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ (GPL)

G4L - Ghost for Linux used for hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool (Linux)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ (GPL)

FOG - Free Open-Source Ghost used for imaging Windows systems (Linux)

http://freeghost.no-ip.org/ (GPL)

Virtual Machines

Qemu - Open source machine emulator and virtualizer - also install Qemu accelerator Kqemu to improve speed, and alternatively install QGui - QEmu Launcher & FrontEnd or Qemu Manager (Windows, Linux)

http://bellard.org/qemu/ (GPL) for MacOSX see http://www.kju-app.org/kju/

ADIOS CDs Overview - Linux live ISO based on Fedora which can run within Windows using virtualisation software such as VMware, Virtual PC or Qemu (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios or http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/adios (GPL)

PuppyLinux - small and powerfull Linux distribution which can run within Windows using virtualisation software such as VMware, Virtual PC or Qemu (Windows, Linux) download from

http://puppylinux.org or http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/puppylinux (Free)

Freeware Copyright 2007-2008 GNU General Public License
OSWINS DVD was built by Neville Richter - http://os.cqu.edu.au/oswinsdvd