Tuesday, January 19, 2010

MC2 Post: Open Source Windows

Open Source Windows


A simple list of the BEST FREE and Open-Source software for Windows:






    WEB BROWSING    Mozilla Firefox

( I still Think of it As Netscape Firefox )







VIDEO PLAYER      Miro,  VLC
( I prefer VLC...)







IM - Instant Messages        Pidgin





DOWNLOADERS     SkipScreen





E-Mail      Mozilla Thunderbird





RSS           RSSOwl

( Twitter has pretty much Killed RSS )






OFFICE SUITE        OpenOffice Org.

( I Write with WRITER )





  PODCASTING         Juice





DVD Ripping            Handbrake





GRAPHICS Editing   GIMP, Inkscape

( Two of My Favorites for Graphics, and GIMP can do just about everything Photoshop can do...Really! ) 





FTP / SFTP             Filezilla





IRC         X-Chat 2





Archiving                 PeaZip



   
    Link to Page 1    http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
   
    Link to Page 2    http://www.opensourcewindows.org/page2.php


    I Use Most of These Programs as a Better Replacement for the Stock Windows Choices.


    The Wingman, is Still Wide Open

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