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Essential Pieces Of Free and Open Software for Windows
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Tags: computer, software, open, source, free, replace, Windows, Microsoft, cool
What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages. Know any others?
| | Firefox - http://www.getfirefox.com/ - Replaces Internet Explorer |
| | Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ - Replaces Microsoft Outlook or Eudora |
| | Sunbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/ - Replaces Microsoft Outlook’s calendaring functions |
| | Abiword - http://www.abisource.com/ - Replaces Microsoft Word |
| | OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/ - Replaces Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint |
| | ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/ - Replaces Norton AntiVirus or McAfee |
| | Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ - Replaces AIM, Windows Messenger, etc. |
| | BitTorrent - http://www.bittorrent.com/ - Original but essential |
| | GIMPShop - http://www.gimpshop.net/ - Replaces Adobe Photoshop |
| | Gnucleus - http://www.gnucleus.com/Gnucleus/ - Replaces LimeWire, BearShare, etc. |
| | VLC Media Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/- Replaces Windows Media Player, Quicktime, RealPlayer, etc. |
| | Juice - http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ - Unique but essential |
| | Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - Unique but essential (for some) |
| | RSSOwl - http://www.rssowl.org/ - Unique but essential |
| | Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ - Replaces WinFTP |
| | Keynote - http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html - Unique but essential |
| | MusikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/ - Replaces iTunes |
| | Handbrake - http://handbrake.m0k.org/ - Unique but essential |
| | X-Chat 2 - http://www.silverex.org/ - Replaces mIRC |
| | KeePass - http://keepass.sourceforge.net/- Unique but essential |
| | TrueCrypt - http://www.truecrypt.org/ - Unique but essential |
| | PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ - Replaces Adobe Acrobat |
| | Freemind - http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ - Unique but Essential |
| | NASA Worldwind - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ - Replaces Google Earth |
| | Notepad2 - http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html - Replaces Notepad |
| | HealthMonitor - http://healthmonitor.zucchetti.com/ - Unique but useful |
| | Workrave - http://www.workrave.org/ - Unique but useful |
| | GanttPV - http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/ - Replaces Microsoft Project |
| | GnuCash - http://www.gnucash.org/ - Replaces Microsoft Money or Quicken |
| | True Combat: Elite - http://www.truecombatelite.net/ - Replaces Quake IV, Halo, etc. |
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