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Audacity -
audacity.sourceforge.net Catagory: Desktop/Audio/Editor License: GPL     |
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Audacity is a really neat audio program. I use it to record meetings,
and it works really well because you can boost the volume to help with
people who don't speak loudly :)
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Gimp -
www.gimp.org Catagory: Desktop/Graphics/Editor License: GPL |
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The Gimp is a flexible graphics editor capable of very high quality
images. It supports nearly everything, and has a very unique interface.
It's no photoshop, but it's really neat once you get used to it.
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Inkscape -
www.inkscape.org Catagory: Desktop/Graphics/SVG Editor License: GPL |
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Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to
Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include
basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients,
node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more.
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Azureus -
azureus.sourceforge.net Catagory: Desktop/Internet/BitTorrent Client License: GPL |
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Azureus is fantastic a BitTorrent client.
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Firefox -
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Catagory: Desktop/Internet/Browser License: MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1 |
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Firefox is the best browser on the planet, try it. It has many
advanced features such as tabbed browsing, popup blockers, and
a vast array of extentions that allow it to do all sorts of cool
stuff.
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Thunderbird -
www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Catagory: Desktop/Internet/Email Client License: MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1 |
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Thunderbird is an awesome email client from the mozilla project.
It supports pop, imap, ssl, extensions, themes, and virtual folders.
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FileZilla -
filezilla.sourceforge.net Catagory: Desktop/Internet/FTP/SFTP Client License: GPL |
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FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots
of useful features and an intuitive interface.
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Gaim -
gaim.sourceforge.net Catagory: Desktop/Internet/Messenger License: GPL |
Gaim is a flexible instant messenger with powerfull features, and
it works with the following
services (all at the same time):
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7-Zip -
www.7-zip.org Catagory: Desktop/Miscellaneous/File Archiver License: LGPL |
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7-Zip is a file archiver that achieves crazy compression, supports
all of the common formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB.
All you winzip users out there, please switch - it's simply better.
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PDFCreator -
sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Catagory: Desktop/Miscellaneous/PDF Distiller License: GPL |
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PDFCreator is a PDF distiller that installs itself as a printer. Print from any
windows program such as word, openoffice, or firefox to this "printer" and it
will generate a high quality PDF. It supports encryption, password protection
and file merging. Why spend the cash on the Acrobat Distiller when you can use
this?
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Regex Coach -
www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ Catagory: Desktop/Productivity License: ASIS |
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The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows and
Linux/x86 which can be used to experiment with
(Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.
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OpenOffice -
openoffice.org Catagory: Desktop/Productivity/Office Suite License: GPL LGPL SISSL |
OpenOffice is a collection standard office tools:
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Freemind -
freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Catagory: Desktop/Productivity/Process or Idea Mapping License: GPL |
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Freemind is a really unusual mapping software that only can best
be explained by using it. It allows a creative tree based model of
organizing thoughts, and can import tab delimited text files.
You should try it...
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Dev-C++ -
www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html Catagory: Desktop/Programming/Editor License: GPL |
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Bloodshed Dev-C++ is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) for the C/C++ programming language. It uses Mingw port of GCC
(GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in
combination with Cygwin or any other GCC based compiler.
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Eclipse -
www.eclipse.org/ Catagory: Desktop/Programming/Editor License: CPL-v1 |
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Eclipse is an extremely powerfull IDE mainly focused on Java, though I
find it to be awesome for Python as well. I really recommend it.
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Jedit -
www.jedit.org Catagory: Desktop/Programming/Editor License: GPL |
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Jedit is an extremely powerfull editor that supports almost every
language, and has a huge library of plugins. It was my primery
editor for quite some time.
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Meld -
meld.sourceforge.net Catagory: Desktop/Programming/Visual Diff and Merge Tool License: GPL |
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Meld is probably the most impressive visual diff programs I have ever used.
It's awesome.
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Ethereal -
www.ethereal.com Catagory: Desktop/Security/Network Analyzer License: GPL |
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Ethereal is used by network professionals around the
world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and
protocol development, and education. It has all of the
standard features you would expect in a protocol
analyzer, and several features not seen in any other
product. Its open source license allows talented experts
in the networking community to add enhancements.
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GCC -
gcc.gnu.org Catagory: Language/Compiler License: GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 |
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GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, includes front ends for
C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as
libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
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Perl -
www.perl.org Catagory: Language/Interpreted Programming Language License: Artistic GPL-2 |
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Perl is a programming standard almost.
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Python -
www.python.org Catagory: Language/Interpreted Programming Language License: PSF-2.2 |
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Python is a very interesting language that lends itself to rapid
development. I use it in a medical environment to monitor interfaces
and it works quite well.
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ImageMagick -
www.imagemagick.org Catagory: Other/Graphics License: Apache-style GPL Compatible |
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ImageMagickTM is a robust collection of tools and libraries to
read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 90
major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF,
PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images dynamically,
making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate,
sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image or image
sequence and save your completed work in the same or differing image
format.
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Openssh -
www.openssh.com Catagory: Other/Library License: BSD |
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OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH protocol suite of network
connectivity tools that increasing numbers of people on the
Internet are coming to rely on. Openssh allows you to use a secure
method of communication between servers, as well as providing
other secure tools such as scp.
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Rsync -
samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ Catagory: Other/Utility License: GPL-2 |
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Rsync is a really fast incremendal file transfer utility that runs
over ssh. It's the perfect tool for data replication or backup.
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Bind -
www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/ Catagory: Server/DNS License: as-is |
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BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is a DNS server that pretty much
runs DNS for the internet... that's all. I guess there are people who
would rather pay to have a bunch of Windows 2003 Servers run it?
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PostgreSQL -
www.postgresql.org Catagory: Server/Database Server License: BSD |
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Postgresql is an extremely powerfull relational database supporting triggers,
functions, inheritance, transactions, and custom types.
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Postfix -
www.postfix.org Catagory: Server/Mail License: IPL-1 |
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Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and
secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible
enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has
a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely
different.
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Sendmail -
www.sendmail.org Catagory: Server/Mail License: Sendmail |
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Sendmail is the email server that powers the internet. Sendmail
had an early history of having lots of security problems and
being difficult to configure. There are really good alternatives
to sendmail, though no one can take away the fact that nearly
every email touches sendmail at least once before reaching it's
destination.
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Spamassassin -
spamassassin.apache.org Catagory: Server/Mail Scanner License: Artistic GPL |
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Spamassassin is an extremely effective spam filter. It's amayzingly
intelligent, and easy to customize.
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Subversion -
subversion.tigris.org Catagory: Server/Version Control System License: Apache/BSD-style |
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Subversion is a version control system that supports some really neat
features. It's designed to be a better cvs. One very interesting
feature is that you can access the system via webdav.
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Cacti -
www.cacti.net/index.php Catagory: Server/Web Application License: GPL |
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Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power
of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast
poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and
user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an
intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized
installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.
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Apache -
www.apache.org Catagory: Server/Web Server License: APACHE-2.0 |
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Apache is the worlds most dominant web server, serving more than
70.98% of our current internet (74,572,794 sites as of 11/2005).
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