Best Free Open Source Software





There has been great effort that is going into development of Free Open Source Software(FOSS). Here I have kept a list of software tools that interested me. Hope they will be useful to you too...

Software Name Description Logo(If Any)
Developer tools - SharpDevelop Open Source IDE for the .NET Framework. Utilizes the multiple programming languages and Windows forms. You can develop good .NET applications for free...
Free C++ Windows Development - Dev-C++ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
Programmers Notepad - Notepad++ Open Source programmers notepad for Windows.
FTP Client - FileZilla It is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
Web Browsing - Mozilla Firefox The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many including me to be the world's best browser available as of now.
Video Player - Miro Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
IM (Instant Messaging) - Pidgin Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.
RSS - RSSOwl Very useful RSS Client.
Video Playback - VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
Office Suites - OpenOffice.org Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
Office Suites - Google Docs. You should start using it to appreciate it's benifit. Absolutely perfect for small entreprenuers and developers. You can collaborate and develop documents. Easy to use. Helps in developing training meterial to me.
Sound Recording - Audacity. One of the very useful free tools. You can record and save files in MP3 format. Helps in developing training meterial to me.
Notetaking - Freemind An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
Personal Finance - TurboCASH Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
Personal Accounting - Buddi Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background.
Free File Hosting - CC Publisher Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
File archiver - 7-Zip Software Famous free Open Source Archiever.
Web Developer Server Suite - WAMP Stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Very good WAMP Stack (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) Very thouroughly tested on Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server (preliminary testing on Longhorn Server underway). Highly Recommended.
Web Developer Server Suite - XAMPP TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows.
PDF File Generator - PDFCreator PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

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