Framasoft website is a collaborative variable geometry in which the subject is free software and its state of mind. Its main objective is to discover free software to the widest audience. Framasoft is write in french. The english version is translated by google language tool.At 30 January 2008, the directory contain 1314 FOSS in the directory. The main categories of the directory of Free and Open Source Softwares are listed with one example of its content:
- Office : Openoffice.org is a free office suite (alternative to MS Office suite)
- Education : Dokeos is a learning management system used by more than 600 companies
- Internet : Firefox (web browser) & Thunderbird (email client) are Mozilla products
- Games : Freeciv is a network game strategy
- Multimedia : XviD is a video compression format conforming to ISO MPEG 4
- Peer-to-Peer : Azureus is a BitTorrent client written in Java.
- Programming : Postgresql is an object relational DBMS industrial quality
- Sciences : GRASS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization.
- Website : EGroupWare is a professional level tool for collaborative work online
- Systems : Ubuntu is a free, Debian derived Linux-based operating system, available with both community and professional support
- Utilities : ClamWin is a free, open source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
