Open Source Software for Windows
XAMPP
XAMPP is a free and open-source Apache web server stack used in web development. The XAMPP stack contains pre-configured versions of Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. XAMPP makes it really easy to install and use the stack on macOS, Linux or Windows.
Mapserver
MapServer is an free and open-source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. Originally developed in the mid-1990’s at the University of Minnesota, MapServer is openly developed and released under an MIT-style license, and runs cross-platform on macOS, Linux and Windows. MapServer is not a full-featured GIS system, nor does it aspire to be.
Traverso DAW
Traverso DAW is a digital audio workstation that is designed to be an extension of your creativity and workflow. With Traverso DAW, you can compose, record and edit your audio with an unprecedented speed and ease. Traverso DAW is released as free and open-source software under the licensed under GNU General Public License.
Kitty Terminal
Kitty is a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator for macOS, Linux and Windows. The project is developed by kovidgoyal and released as free and open software under the GPL-3.0 License. The terminal achives maximal performance by offloading rendering to the GPU for lower system load and smooth scrolling, making it a good choice when compared to resource heavy elctron-based terminals. Kitty Terminal also supports modern features like graphics, unicode, true-color, OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, hyperlinks, focus tracking, bracketed paste and several new terminal protocol extensions.
PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a headless web browser scriptable with JavaScript. PhantomJS utilize QtWebKit as the backend to offer fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG. PhantomJS is most commonly used by developers to run browser-based unit tests in a headless system like a continuous integration environment.
Inkscape
A free and open-source vector graphics editor developed by macOS, Linux and Windows. Inkscape provides a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagramming and flowcharting. With Inkscape you can work on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) with a modern and intuitive UI and UX loved by many in the open-source community.
balenaEtcher
With balenaEtcher people can create an installation media of your operating system by burning the image on a bootable flash drive. The software, that was previously known as Etcher, is developed by Balena and the open-source community and released free of charge under the Apache-2.0 License. balenaEtcher can be downloaded and used for following operating systems: macOS, Linux and Windows.
Nginx
A free and open-source web server created by created by Igor Sysoev in 2004. Nginx can be used as web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. Today the project is managed by Nginx Inc and developed openly by the community, while an enterprise version of the software is also available under the name Nginx Plus.
WampServer
WampServer is a pre-configured web development stack for the Windows operating system. With WampServer it easy to manage a local web development environment that includes the Apache Web Server, the programming language PHP, combined with a MySQL or MariaDB database. WampServer comes with an installer that automatically installs everything you need to get started with the stack. Which makes WampServer a perfect choice for developer looking to quickly setup a local WAMP stack.