Free Agent is not Open Source but it is a handy newsgroup and email client that I've been using for more years than I can remember. It hasn't changed much in that time, which means that while it may not be terribly exciting now, it was very full-featured compared to the competition when I first adopted it. In fact, though there is a free version, I long ago considered the extra features to be essential. This may have been the first app I bought over the internet.
Thunderbird x o is the counterpart to FireFox in the world of email & newsgroup reading. I will do no more than mention it here, since I do not have significant experience using it. But maybe if I was starting over I'd use it instead of Agent.
PuTTY o is a SSH and telnet client for win32 and Linux. It does the job whenever I need to connect to a remote computer, which is often, given the nature of my consulting work.
There are many download managers but TrueDownloader o for Windows is a rare Open Source choice. A few interface glitches detract from a capable programme. You may wish to use FlashGot to integrate it with Firefox, but it only saves a click.
o Open Source
x cross-platform
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