Good open source software?

Glaucus

Glaucus

Glaucus

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I've been trying to go open source for a while allready use, open office.

Is there any good fireworks or photoshop type programs?

Also list any other open source program you use...

Thanks..
 
I've got a list in the house and I'll post it when I get back.

Essentially, I only believe in paying for the operating system, and all utilities on top of that (antivirus, office suite, web design, ftp, firewall, audio editing, media players etc) are free.

Works for me :)

EDIT: GIMP is a great image editing suite as mentioned above. I suggest you get gimpshop, which transforms the GUI into a paintshop-alike clone.
 
As promised:

13/11/2005 14:32 <DIR> Adobe Acrobat
08/09/2005 04:41 <DIR> Audacity Audio Editor
18/01/2006 14:26 <DIR> AVG Anti-Virus
25/01/2006 11:27 <DIR> Benchmarking
(Consisting of all of the 3DMarks, PCMark and Sisoft Sandra)
08/09/2005 04:40 <DIR> DirectX 9c
23/11/2005 19:03 <DIR> GIMP
(Don't forget to get GIMPforWindows to convert to a PS clone)
13/11/2005 15:03 <DIR> Google Toolbar
16/09/2005 11:31 <DIR> Java
13/11/2005 15:14 <DIR> K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
04/12/2005 15:00 <DIR> Memtest
27/01/2006 16:04 <DIR> MSN Messenger
08/09/2005 04:40 <DIR> NET Framework
17/01/2006 17:26 <DIR> nLite
18/01/2006 14:18 <DIR> OpenOffice.org
03/12/2005 13:54 <DIR> Opera
28/11/2005 04:11 <DIR> Operating Systems
(Ubuntu, Xandros, Service Packs and my NLite work directories)
08/09/2005 04:38 <DIR> Overclocking
(AIDA32, CPU-Z, NF4 Clockgen, Prime95 and SuperPi)
13/11/2005 15:31 <DIR> Shareza
09/01/2006 00:15 <DIR> SmartFTP
09/01/2006 00:14 <DIR> Spybot S&D
13/11/2005 15:36 <DIR> Teamspeak
08/09/2005 04:38 <DIR> TSW Webcoder
19/11/2005 16:13 <DIR> Ultimate Boot CD
03/12/2005 14:25 <DIR> Winamp
08/09/2005 04:38 <DIR> Windows Media Encoder
03/12/2005 14:18 <DIR> Zonealarm

I update all of the software on a monthly basis to the latest versions in case I ever need to reinstall. I do a similar thing with my motherboard/graphics card/hardware drivers as well.

Any good to you?
 
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Most of those are just free but not open source, Acrobat, Winamp, Google Toolbar, Zone Alarm, MSN Messenger and Opera for example. :)
 
http://www.theopencd.org/

A very good link for Windows users wanting to use more open source products. :)

At the moment I'm using The Gimp (images), OpenOffice (office suite), Firefox (WWW), Thunderbird (E-Mail), 7-Zip (archives especially rar support), WinSCP (secure FTP) and PuTTY (SSH).
 
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Thanks guys.

Linux no thanks MSwindows is great.. I try linux once a year, although its getting better its still not upto Xp standards... Im hoping it will get there in time.. But they could hurry up.
 
In my opinion, usability.

For example, having to recompile the kernel to get a certain piece of hardware working (though granted this is mainly a problem with hardware companies not releasing open source drivers), xorg/xfree86 configuration of monitor/keyboard/mice, burning CD's and browser plug-ins. These are just a few problems I've had with Linux that make me want to stick with Windows, for now anyway.

At the moment I'm of the same view as AcidHell2 in that I will support open source products and try out Linux on the desktop to see how far it's come but the latest Windows is my choice just now.
 
Otacon said:
Without wanting to take this too far off topic - in what regard, is it not up to XPs standard?
Click to expand...

That's cool I like my topics going of topic, more like a normal conversation I suppose..

usability, friend-ability and games...

Ok its got nice graphics. But I have them turned of on XP anyway let alone Linux. I've still had Linux crash on me dubain and redhat version something or the other..

I like tinkering but also want hassle free when I'm not in the mood. I like windows XP. Its nice and easy never crashes (well once or twice) but very really does windows crash. The occasional program but windows recovers. Also drivers. trying to find drivers for certain WI-FI cards is impossible. Due to MS or hardware copyright or something.

Can't wait for Linux but its just not up there yet. I dream of a day I don't have to pay for anything bar the games
 
Right I got: Office suite (OpenOffice)
Web Browser (Firefox)
Email (thunderbird)
Image editing (Gimp)
FTP (FillZilla)
IRC (savIrc)
Pdf (PDFtk)
Music player ????
Video Player divx/dvd ????
compresion (7-zip)

Can you think of anything else a normall computer needs, also any sugestions for the music/video..
 
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