10 great open source applications for Windows

Knyro said:
Don't forget about Blender, for those who don't wanna fork out thousands for Maya
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I follow discussions on OSS and Blender is mentioned quite often. Can someone give me an everyday use for this software. I have downloaded it but it seems so complicated.
 
DblD said:
Talking about windowz and open source in same sentence is waist of oxygen.
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Wrong, there are loads of FOSS applications for windows and even Microsoft contribute to FOSS development like .NET PAINT.
 
Johand said:
I can add two others which are absolutely awesome and are on my new computers by default:

1) 7-zip. I am not exactly sure why some people still bother with winzip. 7-zip is WAY more powerful and it is free, and doesn't have nag screens or anything like that.
2) KeePass - pretty good password safe.
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Thanks, was looking for something like the above! :)
 
mmsimanga said:
I follow discussions on OSS and Blender is mentioned quite often. Can someone give me an everyday use for this software. I have downloaded it but it seems so complicated.
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If you are a 3D artist you would use this everyday, else it is not for you. (That is, if you are an artist using Blender and not one of several other apps)

bleh at Gnumeric and Abiword. I'm using LibreOffice anyway and will just stick with that (LibreOffice is what came after OpenOffice was taken by oracle for those that don't know what it is).
 
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From TurboCASH - Thanks for the recognition

Allistair thank you for putting us on this esteemed list. I have mashed the story at www.turbocash.net

Interesting comments about Windows and Open Source. I do understand the idealism of using open source operating systems ( we run our project servers on Linux), but Windows is a 21st century reality. In the Accounting market, you are Windows or nowhere. Operating systems is simply not our war. The folks at Wine have done a great job at keeping TurboCASH alive in the Linux and Apple markets.

Developing an accounting system is a very big project. We started out developing This generation of TurboCASH in 1998. It is still one of the youngest of the market leaders, Pastel, SAGE, Quickbooks are based on even older technologies.

13 years ago, there really was not much mainstream open source. Delphi 2 looked like a side range compiler. We had no idea Kylix would implode, or just how resilient the market for Windows accounting would be. Along the way we have always chosen Open source partners where possible. Firebird and Reportman are key components of TurboCASH.

Interesting for me is your choice of Abi Word and Gnumeric over Open Office. With all the politics prevalent in Open Office, I am going to take a look at these.
 
Philipdc said:
Interesting for me is your choice of Abi Word and Gnumeric over Open Office. With all the politics prevalent in Open Office, I am going to take a look at these.
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Many people use them simply because they are lighter than OO and get the job done. I use them on my old laptop with Openbox which zips a long at a nice pace.

There's also KOffice which is multi platform.
 
Ever since Oracle took over is OpenOffice still free? If it is, it should be the defacto free office tool. You can install the modules standalone as well, atleast you could.
 
7zip is by far the best.
There are 10 350MB files that need to be downloaded everyday at work. I zipped and Winrared them to 90MB each.

Then I decided to use 7zip and to my amazement the files were like 5MB each. It made the whole download a few seconds job.

7zip ftw.
 
What are the graphing functions of Gnumeric like?

Also, Freetards, learn the differences between Opensource and Freeware. Please.
 
Sad that no alternative to MS Office like LibreOffice was listed, should be #1 and not just because it could be the biggest money saver. Well at least GIMP made it.

VLC in the #1 spot? It's just a media player and there's no shortage of those.
 
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Browser said:
VLC in the #1 spot? It's just a media player and there's no shortage of those.
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Yes, there are, but nothing comes close to it. It plays more formats than anything else and its fast and light. No frills or stupid, slow interfaces etc. (although you can skin it). It's functional, everything is customizable, it supports plug-ins, network streaming etc. etc.
 
Fuma said:
There are 10 350MB files that need to be downloaded everyday at work. I zipped and Winrared them to 90MB each.

Then I decided to use 7zip and to my amazement the files were like 5MB each. It made the whole download a few seconds job.
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I think you are exaggerating a bit there.
 
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