by Swapnil Bhartiya

5 must-have open source apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Opinion
Oct 16, 2015
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… and they won't cost you a dime.

Open source apps for a cross-platform life

Many, if not most, people, myself included, run a heterogeneous environment, picking the appropriate operating system or platform for the job. To have some level of consistency in my cross-platform workflow I choose applications that I can run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. And it’s icing on the cake if these applications are open source.

Here, then, are some of the best open source and free apps I’ve found for my heterogeneous environment.