After my recent dive into Win32 open source software, I was thinking the community might benefit from a list of quality freeware/ open source applications.
As people post good freeware/ open source applications I will update this list. Please only post applications that have a known commercial equivialant.
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After my recent dive into Win32 open source software, I was thinking the community might benefit from a list of quality freeware/ open source applications.
Office Suite: OpenOffice (MS Office)
Photo Editor: The Gimp (Adobe Photoshop)
Browser: Mozilla (Internet Explorer)
Web Server: Apache (IIS)
Remove Access: TightVNC (Remote Desktop)
P2P File Sharing: Gnucleus (KaZaa)
FTP Client: SmartFTP (Any Commercial FTP Client)
TelNet/ SSH Client: Putty (Data transfer)
Compressed file extraction: ExtractNow (Winzip, Winace, Winrar)
Download manager: Star Downloader (Gozilla, Download Accelerator)
Network / System montor: Samurize (DU meter, Sysmeter)
bulletin board:Invision Board (vBulletin)
Compressed File Extraction:UltimateZip (WinZip, WinRAR, WinACE)
Download Manager:NetAnts (GoZilla, DAP)
IRC Client:BersIRC (IRC)
P2P Client:WinMX (Napster)
Anti-Virus:AVG Anti-Virus (Norton AV)
Image Viewer:SlowView (ACDSee)
Picture Editor:20/20 (MS Paint)
Office Suite:SOT Office (MS Office)
Icon Editor:Icon Sushi (Icon Workshop, IconXP)
As people post good freeware/ open source applications I will update this list. Please only post applications that have a known commercial equivialant.
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