The Scream's Definitive Open Source Software thread

[Behemoth]

I thought seeing as many of us like/use open source software that we should have a thread dedicated to it, and add to it as we find more.

There are some most of us already know about but there are some people that don't know there is an opensource (free) alternative to hand.

Office and Desktop Publishing, Graphics Editing

OpenOffice, compatible with MS Office and Works Documents, much better than MS Office, more simpler interface and mch less bloatware

The Gimp, Powerful photo editing software

Paint.Net Another powerful photo editiong package

More to be added as and when I find them.

[Memfis]

Good idea Behemoth
Fellow Open Office and Gimp user here

also take a look at these open source media/video players that have coped with anything I've thrown at them :

Video Lan Client aka vlc
Mplayer

Both of these have many advanced features like http/telnet control. Streaming to other PC's and file conversion.

[silver]

good idea

http://www.irfanview.com/ - says it's for viewing graphics but it can do all other kinds of graphics things also like batch resize images etc

also use open office

[Twinkle]

Good thread Behemoth,

[Behemoth]

I thought this thread may go down well

One for the DJ's among us

Mixxx - Want to try mixing music ? Don't want to spend lots of money on expensive software ? Then give Mixxx ago, compatible with many USB DJ Consoles too

Anyone want to do a spot of virtualising and don't fancy paying the silly price for VM Ware ? (running an alternative operating system without formatting and ruining your existing configuration)

VirtualBox - Does exactly what it says on the tin

CDex - Rip your music CD's and convert them into mp3's to go on your mp3 player

DosBox - Got an old game you can't play, then this may just do the job One of my favorite freeware apps

[Memfis]

ahh yes virtualbox and dosbox hmm been there.
Heck that reminds me of something old i was trying to run. must try it on dosbox sometime.
Thanks!

[Behemoth]

Audio/CD Burning Tools

Audacity - Music Editing software, very powerful and can be customised with plenty of plugins.

CDBurnerXP - A very light weight CD/DVD burning suite.

InfraRecorder - Another CD/DVD Burning App

System Tools/Utlities

Driver Cleaner - Clear your system of old drivers from old hardware before installing new.

nLite - Slipstream a service pack into Windows XP/Vista Install DVD, add drivers, make an unattened installation.

FTP Client

FileZilla - Fantastic FTP Client.

[Memfis]

Encryption

True Crypt
# Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
# Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
# Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).

[Memfis]

Video Editing
Avidemux
video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks

[Austin_KW]

Multimedia file conversions
WinFF

File Compression
7-Zip I used it only yesterday to create a self extracting archive for someone.

[Behemoth]

IRC Chat Client

KVIrc - Free IRC chat client

[Behemoth]

Not exactly software, but very handy all the same. Just done a new install of your chosen Windows flavour ? Don't want to manually download it all again ? Give this site a try, works really well

http://ninite.com/

[Behemoth]

Context Text Editor

A feature rich text editor, can edit just about anything

http://www.contexteditor.org/