Recommended Free Software
We should have a list of Free Software that we can recommend to newcomers. Some people expect to come to our web site and be pointed at software. Users of Free operating systems such as GNU/Linux don't really need this advice but we can help users of other systems avoid non-Free applications.
Add more Free Software here and we will be able to offer a page for people who would benefit from exposure to high quality Free Software (stuff that is ready for the desktop, ideally)
Office/Productivity
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NeoOffice looks interesting for Mac types
Net tools
Graphics
Audio
Audacity (waveform editor)
Zinf MP3/Ogg player
CDeX (Ripping, audio extraction)
Oggdrop (and friends)
Video
Specialist
Development tools of all sorts
TeX system (
MikTeX is good)
Cygwin (includes many development tools) Scientific computation (
Octave )
Security
Fun
Eye candy (
really slick screen savers)
tenbrae (Quake)
Liquid War (nice!)
Nethack! (OK, OK.
Falcon's Eye
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