Saturday, August 30, 2014

Free open source windows software

Here's a list of some software I find essential and which I usually install on new Windows machines. All are free and most are open source.

Browser: Firefox or Chrome
https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
https://www.google.com.au/chrome/

Email: Thunderbird
https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/

Anti-virus software: Microsoft Security Essentials
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/security-essentials-download

Distributed Version Control System: Git for Windows
http://git-scm.com/download/win

SVN Client: Tortoise SVN client
http://tortoisesvn.net/

Flash: Adobe Flash Player
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

File archive/compression tool: 7-Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

Media player: VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

Text Editor: Notepad++
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

PDF creation: PDF Creator
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

PDF viewer: Sumatra PDF
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html

Office software (spreadsheet, word processor, slideshow): Libre Office, Open Office or Microsoft Office
http://www.libreoffice.org/
http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html
http://office.microsoft.com/

CD/DVD Burner & Ripper: ImgBurn
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Bitmap Graphics editor: Paint.NET or GIMP
http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html
http://www.gimp.org/

Vector graphics editor: Inkscape
http://www.inkscape.org/

Digital darkroom software: LightZone
http://lightzoneproject.org/

Password safe: KeePass
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/

File synchronisation: Dir Sync Pro
http://www.dirsyncpro.org/

Cross posted from
http://www.dodgycoder.net/2014/08/essential-free-windows-software.html

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for the list, most of it I use. But as for the compression tool and file archives, I know how to open .rar file https://wikiext.com/rar and the rest formats using a universal program. This is much better than downloading 7Zip, Corel WinZip and much more just clogs my PC. This is my opinion, you can also learn more about the universal viewer and use it depending on your needs.

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