by Cindy Murdock
LearningAccessILS: An open source circ system.
www.learningaccess.org/website/techdev/ils.php
Star Office: An office suite similar to MS Office.
www.staroffice.com
Note: It appears that the next version of Star Office will be called Open Office (www.openoffice.org)
The Gimp: A graphics program on par with Photoshop.
www.gimp.org
There are also some great tutorials available at the Gimp Users Group website: gug.sunsite.dk
SIPS: A weblog that uses PHP. With a little modification it can be made into a Library News site or somesuch--see an example at www.ccfls.org/news.
www.sourceforge.net/projects/sips
Amanda: A tape backup utility.
www.amanda.org
AbiWord: A word processing program.
www.abisource.com
SourceForge: sourceforge.net
A repository of open source projects. If there's a type of software you want, you can probably find it here.
RPMFind: rpmfind.net
Find RPM packages for many different linux distributions here.
KDE Apps: apps.kde.com
Applications especially for the KDE window manager.
Cnet.com: download.cnet.com
You can search specifically for linux applications here.