SoftwareRecommendations

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

• OpenOffice.org

  • NeoOffice looks interesting for Mac types

• PDFCreator

Net tools

• Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.

• Gaim

• NVU (site creation)

• Filezilla (FTP client)

• Putty (SSH)

Graphics

• The Gimp

• sodipodi (superceded by inkscape?)

• Inkscape

• Blender

Audio

• Audacity (waveform editor)

• Zinf MP3/Ogg player

• CDeX (Ripping, audio extraction)

• Oggdrop (and friends)

• FLAC

Video

• Virtual Dub

Specialist

• Development tools of all sorts

• TeX system ( MikTeX is good)

• Cygwin (includes many development tools)

• Scientific computation ( Octave )

• Celestia

Security

• GNUPG

Fun

• Eye candy ( really slick screen savers)

• Flight Gear

• Freeciv

• Advanced Strategic Command

• Lincity

• Chromium

• tenbrae (Quake)

• Liquid War (nice!)

• Doom legacy

• Nethack! (OK, OK. Falcon's Eye )