Favourite/Useful Open Source Software

oneweb

Achilles wrote:

Shareaza is open source? I don't think so...

It is open source... ...check the spelling

oneweb

I use lots of Open Source software , usually do a search on www.sf.net if I need a particualr app.

My favourites so far (no doubt I'm missing a few)

Mozilla - browser/email suite

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ASFRecorder
BusSched - Dublin Bus timetables for Palm OS (other OSes too)
DScaler Deinterlacer/Scaler - viewer for TV cards
FileZilla - FTP client/server
Get Mail.com - perl script to download mail.com inbox to text (mbox) file
Gnucleus - P2P (superseded by Shareaza)
MD5summer - Win MD5 file hash utility
Media Player Classic - used as part of K-Lite Codec Pack Mega merges bloated Realplayer/Quicktime etc into one lil player.
NetTime - sync pc to a time server
Notepad++ - deadly source code editor with syntax highlighting and autocomplete
Palm Datebook Converter - convert Palm datebook to text file
Palm OS Emulator
PDFCreator
Shareaza - P2P inc. BitTorrent/Gnutella
Ultr@VNC - Control computer remotely
WinMerge - File diff'er

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zod

For windows:

Snitz Forums : http://forum.snitz.com/

Helpdesk : http://www.liberum.org

neon_glows

Best open source Programs in the world:

www.dvddecrypter.com --- dvd decrypter software for ripping dvds

www.grisoft.com ---- look for avg free edition, a free and great

www.zonelabs.com --- zone alarm firewall

www.nasa.gov ---- search for a prog called world wind, 3d model of earth allowing you to view satillite images.

gmail notifier if you have a gmail mail box

www.vodafone.ie --- vodafone messewnger, think you need an 087 phone though

www.limewire.com ---- no spam/spyware/ads p2p network, very reliable.

www.download.com --- search for american army game, really is great.

MrVestek

neon_glows wrote:

Best open source Programs in the world:

www.grisoft.com ---- look for avg free edition, a free and great

That's not open source.

neon_glows wrote:

www.zonelabs.com --- zone alarm firewall

Yeah neither is that.

neon_glows wrote:

gmail notifier if you have a gmail mail box

Or that.

neon_glows wrote:

www.limewire.com ---- no spam/spyware/ads p2p network, very reliable.

Lol, you're joking, right?

L1011

Kismac, possibly the best wireless stumbler in the world in what it can do, only limited by the OS it runs on (OSX) and its poor support for Apple's recent cards.

mlmac - good OSX gui for:

mldonkey - cross platform, cross network filesharing client. Written in Objective CAML, of all things...

Pe - The Programmers Editor. Abandoned and then opensourced as its author moved from BeOS to Windows. Decent notepad, incredible HTML editor

Kino - DV movie camera tool for Linux and I guess the BSD's. Works with my DVD player as the Firewire data source (not got a camera, yet) on my Vaio and my iBook, which is more than Sonic and iMovie do on their 'native' OS's

ffmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat - supports virtually every media codec in existance, including preliminary support for Windows Media 9/10, most Quicktime and some RealMedia formats. Is used as the core of:

VLC, Xine and mplayer. Three excelent, highly portable media players. mplayer is the best on x86 just because it can thunk in Windows codecs to use them, although its a bit illegal...

And while its not software, the Wikipedia. Thats GFDL'ed....

Orion

neon_glows wrote:

Best open source Programs in the world:

www.dvddecrypter.com --- dvd decrypter software for ripping dvds

www.grisoft.com ---- look for avg free edition, a free and great

www.zonelabs.com --- zone alarm firewall

www.nasa.gov ---- search for a prog called world wind, 3d model of earth allowing you to view satillite images.

gmail notifier if you have a gmail mail box

www.vodafone.ie --- vodafone messewnger, think you need an 087 phone though

www.limewire.com ---- no spam/spyware/ads p2p network, very reliable.

www.download.com --- search for american army game, really is great.

Are you taking the pi$$? Do you have any idea what Open Source means? In fact, considering that you recommend Limewire - do you know what a computer is?

GoneShootin

Hey lay off Limewire - its the dogx such n such. I prefer it over WinMX/Kazaa at least.

back to open source

osCommerce. Currently testing it on this site.

Gandalf23

Knoppix (www.knoppix.net) is a Linux distribution that boots directly from CD. This is an excellent option for those of us with aging laptops and small hard drives!!! Also good for technophobes who dont want to mess with dual boots and HD partitions etc. "From zero to Linux in 5 minutes" and that cant be bad...

But my favourites are...

Firefox & Thunderbird (of course!!!), and eMule.