Open Source Software Alternatives
This is a brief list of open source software alternatives for paid consumer software suites and applications. The information is provided for convenience and does not implicitly or explicitly constitute an endorsement or recommendation for any of the software listed below. ITS provides "best effort" support for software not on the supported software list. A list of ITS supported software can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/575. The ITS Computer Support Policy can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/588.
PC (i.e. Windows based)
- LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org)
A productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office.
- Apache OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org)
A productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office.
- GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
An image editing program similar to Adobe Photoshop.
- OnlyOffice Desktop Editors (https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx)
Note that just the Desktop Editors are free. Other products offered on this site are not free. This is a desktop office suite for document editing and collaboration.
MAC
- LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org)
A productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office.
- Apache OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org)
A productivity suite similar to Microsoft Office.
- NeoOffice (http://www.neooffice.org)
A productivity suite based on OpenOffice but with features for Mac OS X
- GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
An image editing program similar to Adobe Photoshop.
- OnlyOffice Desktop Editors (https://www.onlyoffice.com/download-desktop.aspx)
Note that just the Desktop Editors are free. Other products offered on this site are not free. This is a desktop office suite for document editing and collaboration.
If you know of other open source software suites that may be of interest to others in the UH community, you can contact the ITS Help Desk to ask they be added to this list.
