SQUID – A Unix based Proxy Server

Squid is a caching UNIX based proxy server that caches internet content closer to a requestor than its original point of origin. This open source proxy server supports caching of many different kinds of web objects, including those accessed through HTTP and FTP.

Squid had many advantages which include

• Speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests
• Caching web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources
• Aiding security by filtering traffic

WANProxy – Open Source TCP proxy

WANProcy is a free, open source, general–purpose portable TCP proxy which makes TCP connections send less data, which improves TCP performance and throughput over lossy links. Slow links & long links. This is just what you need to improve performance over satellite, wireless and WAN links. WANProxy also support optimizing SSSH traffic specifically, in addition to other TCP protocols. WANProxy is the first WAN optimization software to support SSH WAN optimization.

Miro - Open Source Music Player

Miro works so well for HD content, you'll find lots of video that looks beautiful in fullscreen on even the largest displays.it is an amazing open-source, non-profit video player.It’s very easy to switch from iTunes to Miro—without any copying. Just point Miro to your music and video folders and those files will appear. If you don’t like Miro (impossible!), nothing’s changed.

Recoll - Open Source Search Tool

This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface. Avaliable through repositories.