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Nova Dragoon

8 Jun, 2005 - 12:36 PM
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This thread is for Free and Opensource desktop software that gets things done.
If you want to contribute include the software's name, description of it's function, link to its site, and supported platforms.


GIMP
http://www.gimp.org/
The G.I.M.P. or GNU Image Manipulation Program is made for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Similar to photoshop in many ways, it is a powefull image manipulation program.
Runs on: Unix/Linux, Windows, OSX


GAIM
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Gaim is a multi-protocol Instant messaging client. It has support for AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC. It is extendable through plugins such as encryption.
Runs on: Linux, Windows


XMMS
http://www.xmms.org/
XMMS is a media player similar to Winamp. It can play media files such as MP3, MOD's, OGG, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins.
Runs on: Linux


Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Used for recording and editing sounds. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Runs on: Linux, Windows, Mac


Bluefish
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Bluefish is a powerful editor for experienced web designers and programmers. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, but it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.
Runs on: most (all?) POSIX compatible operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD, Solaris and Tru64.


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Nova Dragoon

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8 Jun, 2005 - 01:02 PM
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Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Firefox is a themeable, extendable, and secure web browser. Includes features like, popup blocking, tabbed browsing, and live bookmarks.
Runs on: Linux, Windows, OSX


Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Thunderbird is the email compliment to Firefox. Includes intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support and much more.
Runs on: Linux, Windows, OSX
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8 Jun, 2005 - 03:38 PM
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TCPMP
http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about
The Core Pocket Media Player is a media player for Palm OS-based devices, using ARM processors. This includes the Tungsten and Treo models. File types and codecs supported include AC3, MP4, AVIs and MP3s.
Runs On: Palm OS (Tungsten, Treo)
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8 Jun, 2005 - 06:33 PM
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Awesome idea, nova,,,I'll be back with some of my faves.
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9 Jun, 2005 - 12:09 AM
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Notepad++
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

A MS Notepad alternative. Features:

* Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
* User Defined Syntax Highlighting
* Auto-completion
* Tabbed Multi-Document
* Multi-View
* Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
* Dynamic position of Views
* File Status Auto-detection
* Zoom in and zoom out
* Multi-Language environment supported
* Bookmark
* Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
* Macro recording and playback

My choice for PHP, HTML, CSS, and sometimes even ActionScript, and is my default for ALL ascii/simple text files.
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9 Jun, 2005 - 02:09 AM
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or something bad...real bad.
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oh my jesus, that notepad thing ROCKS!
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Nova Dragoon

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10 Jun, 2005 - 08:07 AM
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Inkscape
http://www.inkscape.org/
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG).
Runs on: Linux / Windows


Note: SVG is hawt
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14 Oct, 2005 - 12:59 AM
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The computers at collage dont allow downloading so i carn't get any at the mo... But if there is a way to get around Novell so i can the wuho...
I can't get it at home till my connection gets sorted... this is so shit.
sorry...
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24 Oct, 2005 - 06:01 PM
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Dev-PHP
http://devphp.sourceforge.net/
Dev-PHP is a full-featured IDE for PHP. It is fast, it is powerful, it is easy to use and it has a lot of cool features like a class browser, an internal browser to preview scripts and full integration with the PHP parser and the PHP-GTK library.
Runs on: Windows


Note: Version 2.0.7 is my personal favorite.
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24 Oct, 2005 - 06:14 PM
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Apache2Triad
http://apache2triad.net/
Apache2triad is a distribution of some of the most popular open source servers and interpreters for developing and providing web content using windows. Basically, an out of the box web server with the most popular software pre-configured:

Apache 2, PHP, mySQL, PHPMyAdmin, mod_ssl, mod_perl, mod_python, pear, smarty, perl w/Apache:ASP, cpan, python, awstats, and several other packages.

Runs on: Windows
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9 Nov, 2005 - 07:51 AM
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i really use this to monitor my usage. its really good. maybe u'd find ot usefull too!

Main Page

Download Bandwidth Monitor

Traffic Analysis with Cisco NetFlow

Cisco NetFlow allows for extremely granular and accurate traffic measurements by recording network traffic into the device cache. Since network traffic has a flow nature to it, the NetFlow accounting data that is built in the cache, characterizes the IP traffic being forwarded.

Cisco NetFlow data records exported by routers and switches consist of expired traffic flows with detailed traffic statistics. These flows contain information about source and destination IP addresses along with the protocols and ports used in the end-to-end conversation.


Cisco NetFlow combined with NetFlow Analyzer yields valuable information about the behavior of traffic on your network. Armed with this information, it is easier to make critical decisions on bandwidth capacity, security, and optimal usage of network infrastructure.
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2 Nov, 2006 - 11:59 PM
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how did you guys not include this?

Open Office
the entire suite to replace ms office,
open source and free - backed by sun.

completely compatible with all your word, powerpoint, excel documents plus cross platform, and well, better imo,
this is the way to go without shelling out hundreds.


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23 Feb, 2007 - 09:19 PM
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very useful links..esp that notepad ++ is gre8
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How can you guys forget eclipse?
Eclipse

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2 Mar, 2007 - 07:41 PM
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If you want pure word processing, AbiWord is good stuff.

Runs on everything.

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30 Jul, 2007 - 08:50 PM
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7 Zip

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The AES code is under a BSD LICENSE. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions

The main features of 7-Zip
  • High compression

  • ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
  • Supported formats:
    • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
    • Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
  • For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
  • Self-extracting capability for 7z format
  • Integration with Windows Shell
  • Powerful File Manager
  • Powerful command line version
  • Plugin for FAR Manager
  • Localizations for 63 languages



SharpDevelop

IDE for C#, VB.Net and Boo projects, nice replacement for Visual Studio and its Open Source

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15 Aug, 2007 - 09:55 PM
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Open Source Windows

This site contains a list of free software for windows:
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Free and open-source software is good for you and for the world. This is the best Windows software that we know of.
No adware, no spyware, just good software.


Corresponding one for Mac:

Open Source Mac
QUOTE

Free and open-source software is good for you and good for the world. This is the best Mac software that we know of.


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15 Aug, 2007 - 11:06 PM
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Wireshark
Sniff Free or Die
Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide.

Wireshark was written by an international group of networking experts, and is an example of the power of open source. It runs on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and other platforms.

It used to be known as Ethereal, and was renamed in May 2006

*nix, Windows



Virtualdub

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.

Windows

Putty

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

Windows, *nix

NetBeans
All the tools software developers need to create cross-platform Java desktop, enterprise and web applications. Runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS, as well as Solaris. It is easy to install and use, works right out of the box -- and it is open-source and free!

Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris

Azureus
Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users:
* Multiple torrent downloads
* Upload and download speed limiting, both globally and per torrent
* Advanced seeding rules
* Adjustable disk cache
* Only uses one port for all the torrents
* UPnP sets the forward on your router
* Can use a proxy, for both tracker and peer communications
* Fast resume
* Can set a default download dir and move completed files
* Can import torrents automatically from a set dir
* Highly customizable interface
* IRC plugin included for quick help
* Embedded tracker, host your own torrents, automate your shares (periodic scanning of a dir)...
* Distributed Hash Table: host on it a completely decentralised torrent and/or benefit from it when the tracker is offline.


Many useful plugins are available:
* Auto-adjustment of your upload and download speeds according to your network charge with Autospeed
* Auto-download torrents with RSS Feed Scanner
* Schedule upload and download speed limits with Speed Scheduler
* Receive a mail when a download finishes with Status Mailer
* Add numerous info on torrents (Extra seeding columns, Country Locator)
* Remote control Azureus through the Swing Web Interface or the HTML Web Interface

Wherver Java and SWT is available.

Blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

OpenLaszlo
OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and, with OpenLaszlo 4, DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.

OpenLaszlo is "write once, run everywhere." An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems.

Windows, MacOS, *nix


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24 Oct, 2007 - 06:14 AM
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Miranda IM
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Pidgin/GAIM alternate. Seems to run slightly faster from my experience
Runs on: Windows (Can be ported to Linux using Wine supposedly, I have not verified this personally)

SunBird and Lightning
Sunbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/s...d/download.html
Lightning - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
Sunbird and Lightning are Mozilla's F/OSS calendar applications. I coupled them together because the primary difference is that Sunbird is stand-alone, where as Lightning couples with Thunderbird.
Runs on: Linux, Windows

Portable Apps
http://portableapps.com/
Though not techincally an application within itself (unless you count the suite), this site contains portable versions (in other words, versions you can run from a jump drive/external HDD/iPod/Whatever you want) of a lot of the software mentioned in this thread as well as many others. Perfect if you find yourself having to use different computers constantly where you don't have "your" apps installed.


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24 Oct, 2007 - 06:30 AM
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What a great bunch of apps, have used most of them over the years...

Here are a few more to consider:
Programmer’s Notepad (link)
A good little text editor with new features all the time

Launchy (link)
A great keystrock launcher.


I've also been using Komodo Edit (link)
Which is pretty good editor for PHP and Javascript, from ActiveState. They have a commercial version called Komodo IDE. They are in the process of going open source with the core.



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