nizo's Journal: Favorite freebie or open source software?

Several that I use on a regular basis:

openoffice
firefox
gimp
glabels
vlc
avidemux
thunderbird
mencoder

So what freebie or open source software do you use on a regular basis?

Few of mine...

[Pancho Pistolas]

Audacity (one awesome audio editing software)
MediaCoder (video conversion/extraction)
[and of course games]
Battle for Wesnoth
Angband (been playing that one for years)

my list

[stoolpigeon]

I use a lot of open source stuff - these are some of the biggies that I can't really imagine going a day without using them.

fedora
firefox
openoffice
gimp
putty
winscp
wordpress
tntmpd (you wont have heard of this and don't need it - but it is a big part of my life.)
7zip
metapad
kate
vim
pidgin
bash
openssh

Firefox then Open Office

[WillAffleckUW]

I use WinXP sadly ... but this will be the year I ditch it at home - my son has been Mac since he was a small boy and I may finally join him.

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[plover]

I'm on XP, too, but mostly because that's my day job. I do have quite a large list of free/open-source software I use with XP, though.
Firefox is way at the top of my list, followed closely by Process Explorer, aka procexp.exe (Mark Russinovich is a very cool guy) and then Notepad2 (a cool Notepad replacement.)
After that, it's unxutils and 7-Zip for command line stuff.
VLC, FLV Player, SUPER, Exact Audio Copy and Winamp for media stuff.
ImageMagick, RPhoto, Inkscape and the GIMP for image editing.
I'm using Ec

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[WillAffleckUW]

I agree, I'm also on XP due to my day job as well.

I remembered another app I use - Perl.

We're migrating some things to MySql from Access, so at some point we may finally pull the plug on XP.

a Windows perspective..

[lithron]

Open Source and free software from a Windows-centric perspective:
Filezilla - FTP and SFTP
Cygwin - Unix-like environment inside Windows
Perl - scripting language of the gods
PDFCreator - PDF print driver in Windows
Paint.NET - Windows Paint on steroids (yes, written by a MS employee)
FreeCIV - Civilizations clone available for almost every OS
Password Safe - keeping passwords safe since... err.. for a while now
CDex 1.50 - Audio CD ripping software & LAME front end
DVD Shrink - making backups of DVDs before you

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[nizo]

Heh I am glad I am not the only person who still likes perl (though I like php quite a bit too; it's like perl for the web!)

And vm machines are awesome, though I have only worked with vmware. Still, that is what I am looking to use to resurrect a pile of old kids games I found this weekend (most were designed for windows 3.11 or windows 95). Plus I can keep moving the game image to newer/different machines easily in the future.....

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[lithron]

VMWare Server 3.0 and VMWare Player are free too. VMWare has great Linux support (although Microsoft recently offered support and drivers for Linux). Its a shame I don't have more of a reason to use Linux for projects, but my work just doesn't fit that mold :-(

PHP.. good advice. I keep forgetting that PHP has GD built in, so I could stop fooling with compiling GD for Cygwin and trying to get perl support to work.

My list

[Corporate Troll]

[Free as in beer is marked with a star, the rest is free as in speech. Marked with a question mark if I'm unsure.]

On my "basic" install for Windows XP.

• OpenOffice.org
• Spybot Search & Destroy
• Ad-Aware (*)
• AVG Antivirus
• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• PuTTY
• FileZilla
• The GIMP
• Inkscape
• iTunes (*) -- Includes Quicktime (*)
• K-Lite Video Code Pack with Media Player Classic (?)
• VideoLan/VLC
• DeepBurner (*) -- or alternatively CDBurnerXP (?), but it isn't as good last time I tried it.
• Pidgin
• 7Zi

Erratum:

[Corporate Troll]

AVG Antivirus is evidently free as in beer, so it misses a star.

I also use Gnucleus for my filesharing needs. Never jumped on the bittorrent bandwagon, because AFAIK the machine running the bittorrent software needs to be directly connected to the internet (and as such port forwarding from my NAT machine to that machine on the network) My motto is: if only one computer on the network can get it, nobody gets it.

On the desktop...

[Alioth]

Well, too many to mention, but the main ones on the desktop:

* gSchem (schematic editor)
* pcb (PCB layout editor)
* VLC (probably the best video/audio playback software around)
* Firefox
* Gnome Terminal
* OpenSSH
* Perl
* gcc and gcc-avr
* slrn (usenet news reader)
* pine (email) and Thunderbird

Open source software I've contributed to:
* Oolite (an OpenGL space trading game written in Objective-C), available under the GNU GPL.

Free but proprietary:
* Xilinx ISE (CPLD / FPGA development environment)

I use lots of the ones already mentioned

[Mantorp]

but a few other free ones I use fairly regularly are:
Irfanview
SopCast
SDP downloader
orb.com
google anything esp earth and picasa
imgbrun
cdburnerxp pro
Daemon tools

2c

[Captain Splendid]

Firefox
Thunderbird
Webcalendar
O.o
OpenSuse
Vlc
Filezilla
Ultra VNC
Enemy Territory.

late, but

[queenofthe1ring]

Besides some already listed (firefox, openoffice, gimp)...

I use pidgin, but I hate it. I liked gaim much better.

and of course: BLENDER!

husband uses all sorts of things. he set up the MythTv stuff. Actually I'm not sure that's entirely free anymore. he prefers abiword to openoffice I think.

oh, rhythmbox.

That's about all I can think of for now.

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[nizo]

Abiword is nice; it doesn't have the bloat of openoffice. For a really tiny minimal gui word processor, try Ted :-) Oh and look, it is only an apt-get away in ubuntu; cool.

So how is the blender learning going?

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[queenofthe1ring]

Ah, one can always count on others to keep them honest... I haven't really worked on blender much in the past month or so. In typical queenofthe1ring fashion, I've bitten off a project bigger than I was ready for. So, I'm resistant to work on it, and feel too guilty over not finishing it to start on a different project. I think that this week I will try to go back to it and see if I can at least fix up some of what I already have.

The project (since the time is quickly expiring on the window to post

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[nizo]

Good luck, and keep plugging away at it. :-) I discovered that even when I wasn't totally happy with the outcome, I was still happy with all the new things I learned during the process.