Recently I had to rebuild my computer (you can tell I’m a Windows user). I just built it clean and then installed only what I thought were essential programs as I needed them. There were so many desktop programs and utilities that I didn’t realize I used often that were all Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) so here is my must have list for Windows:
Firefox – Web browser that should just be part of the Windows install (IMO)
Thunderbird – Mail Client, RSS reader
Filezilla – FTP Client / Server
ExtractNow – Archive utility handles zip, rar, gz, tar, 7zip, and others
Open Office – FLOSS Microsoft Office alternative
XPDF – Adobe Acrobate PDF reader
DVDx – DVD to Avi, mpeg, wmv converter
Audacity – Audio editing software
DeepBurner - CD Burning
VLC – Media player. Love the traffic cone
Gimp – Photo editing software
Pidgin – Instant messaging AIM, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, etc.
Spybot – Anti-Spyware
Notepad ++ – Text editor for programers
CDeX – CD to mp3 converter
uTorrent – BitTorrent client
TightVNC – Remote Control
ClamWin – Antivirus
ProcessExplorer – Originally a Sysinternals product now owned by Mircosoft is Task manager on Crack!
February 20th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
[...] the payload. You could also uninstall Adobe acrobat reader and install the Open Source alternative XPDF which I belive does not have the [...]
March 6th, 2009 at 11:33 am
[...] yourself from other worms in the future. If you don’t have anti virus on your PC check out Clam Antivirus which is open source software that works just as well as Norton or [...]