Open Source Software for Windows

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by X-Istence
Hehe, Thunderbird needs an addon for palm.

There's a long thread about Palm syncing with Thunderbird on the MozillaZine forum.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=8372&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

 

[NetRyder]

Oh yeah...I switched over from Outlook 2003 to T-bird yesterday. I'm loving 0.2 so far. Some of the extensions are really handy.
I moved over all my contacts, and calendar events to Palm Desktop. Good to see that it has an alarm reminder system as well.
Now all I need to do is go back and reinstall O

 

[Grandmaster]

Open-Office and other open-source projects from the EU seem to be in trouble

http://www.openoffice.nl/

 

[coathanger007]

Everyone talks about OpenOffice all the time. Sot Office is like OpenOffice on steroids. If you want a comparison go to sotlinux forums.

Improvements in the new version incl:
included dBase database allows working with tables, queries etc
added a PDF print option for the Linux version
added multi-user installation option
added support for the Euro currency symbol
improved support for Turkish fonts
corrected handling of imported Czech .doc files
streamlined handling of empty cells in SOTO Calc
fixed window behaviour while editing macros
fixed drag and drop of database tables into SOTO
improved consistency in SUM syntax (tables and spreadsheets)
improved scrolling of images
added ability to cut and paste multiple presentation slides
fixed spell-check capability for network installations
added help for synchronize option
improved Postscript printing and colour
improved support for mouse wheel
fixed cases of disappearing menus
improved handling of multiple open instances of .doc files
fixed a problem with access the graphics properties of an image
improved line spacing in .ppt file exports
improved customization options for toolbar
fixed clipboard copy/paste issue from Big5
updated help system
improved web templates
new, improved filters for importing documents from other office apps
updated user manual
installer stability improved
fixed a conflict between Open Office/StarOffice installations

Tarsier screensaver toggle also a really useful opensource util.

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by Enyo
FileZilla 2.2.1

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[SPeedY_B]

New FileZilla! Leeter than a dancing badger!!!!

 

[chaos945]

Freeware Office Suites?

If like me, you are sick and tired of having to pay outrageous prices for Office Suites or illegally downloading copies when Wordpad just isn't cutting it, then look no further.

In the past few weeks I have been trying to completely convert over to opensource or freeware programs, many of which are better than or at least equal to their expensive counterparts. Anyways, I had been browsing around looking for alternatives when I came across this great program, it is just one of the many I'm sure available opensouce Office Suite alternatives.

OpenOffice has much of the functionality of OfficeXP and does not cost $300+/-. It has an easy to use installation, and even the most inexperienced of you will be able to make the transition over to this program easily.

Go to their OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE.

More opensource alternatives to come!

**post written completely in OpenOffice**

 

[NetRyder]

Threads merged

 

[chaos945]

Thanks....

**feels like a retard**

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by chaos945
Thanks....

**feels like a retard**

Hehe

 

[chaos945]

Anyone got an good opensource firewall for windows NT/XP?

I found this one, anyone tried it?

/edit
Check out this great site, some nice person made listing open source alternatives!

 

[coathanger007]

HTTrack is a free (libre/open source) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
http://www.httrack.com/
WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release.

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Merged from the other thread. -NetRyder

3.30
+ New: Webhttrack, a linux/unix/bsd Web GUI for httrack
+ New: "URL hack" feature
+ New: HTTP-headers charset is now propagated in the html file
+ New: loadable external engine callbacks
+ New: Experimental ".mht" archives format
+ Fixed: Query ?? bug
+ Fixed: Bogus base href without http://
+ Fixed: Several javascript bugs
+ Fixed: UCS2 pages badly detected
+ Fixed: Build structure change does not redownload files
+ Fixed: "?foo" URL bug (link with only a query string) fixed
+ Fixed: ' or " inside non-quoted URLs
+ Fixed: keep-alive problems with bogus servers
+ Fixed: Broken .ra files
+ Fixed: More javascript bugs
+ Fixed: ftp transfers not properly monitored in the shell
+ Fixed: various fixes in webhttrack
+ Fixed: Blank final page in webhttrack
+ Fixed: Javascript comments (//) are skipped
+ Fixed: Temporary fix for "archive" bug with multiple java archives
+ Fixed: Inlined js or css files have their path relative to the parent
+ Fixed: Unescaped quotes ("") when continuing/updating in commandline mode
+ Fixed: Null-character in html page bug
+ Fixed: External depth slightly less bogus
+ Fixed: Filters based on size bogus ("less than 1KiB" is now functionning)
+ Fixed: Strange behaviour with filters (last filter "crushed")
+ Fixed: Bogus downloads when using ftp (unable to save file)
+ Fixed: Freeze with keep-alive on certain sites due to bad chunk encoding handling
+ Fixed: Problems with javascript included paths
+ Fixed: The mirror now aborts when the filesystem is full
+ Fixed: "No external pages" option fixed
+ Fixed: Javascript and \" in document.write bug fixed
+ Fixed: Two memory leaks in temporary file generation, and in link build fixed
+ Fixed: Bogus compression with non-gzip format
+ Fixed: Larger range of charsets accepted
+ Fixed: Bogus robots.txt when using comments (#)
+ Fixed: Missing MIME types for files such as .ico
+ Shell: Fixed continuous proxy search
+ Shell: Fixed missing HelpHtml/ link
+ Fixed: Overflow in htsback.c:2779
+ Fixed: Bogus style and script expressions due to too aggressive parsing
+ Fixed: Javascript parsing bugs with \" and \'
+ Fixed: Javascript link detection bugs when comments were inserted between arguments
+ Fixed: Bug when valid empty gzip content was received
+ New: More aggressive "maximum mirroring time" and "maximum amount of bytes transfered" options
+ New: Windows file://server/path syntax handled
+ Fixed: mht archive fixes
+ Fixed: Serious bugs with filters given in commandline erased by the engine
+ Fixed: Bogus parsing of javascript: generated inside document.write() inside javascript code removed
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Now c'mon guys, no one brave enough to try Sot Office or 602 PC Suite?

 

[Bronx Bomber]

HTTrack is quite useful, i love it.

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by coathanger007
HTTrack is a free (libre/open source) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
http://www.httrack.com/
WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release.

Ah nice one!
Also, if you're using Firebird, you can install the SpiderZilla extension to accomplish the same task

 

[X-Istence]

Originally posted by coathanger007
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Now c'mon guys, no one brave enough to try Sot Office or 602 PC Suite?

Sot Office, looking at it, has a lot of functionality OpenOffice has added as well, like PDF printing, multiple user setup, and a ton more.

 

[coathanger007]

Also has a nice red theme to contrast OpenOffice plain white

What are SOT Office advantages over OpenOffice?

- Finnish language support
- graphical user interface
- manual
- spellchecker
- Set of primitive templates
- More advanced online help
- Latest Microsoft filters
- Easy access to applications from menu, like word processing,
spreadsheet and graphic applications modules
- Easy installation/deinstallation on Linux by RPM package
- Hyphenation support

 

[X-Istence]

I hate RPM packages, as i like to compile from source.

What OO has that you mentioned:

Hyphenation support
Easy access to all tools from a menu ( Check out OO quick start )
Latest Microsoft Filters, even the latest MS Office works fine with it
Spellchecker
Finish language, its there, download the auto dictionary downloader, or install them by hand
Manual, press F1 while in an app, its entire help is there.


Graphical user interface? Course it has that, its not command line based !.

And personally, i am all into the grey and white, so SOT has no immediate advantages over OO.

OO has: Writer, Spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, html and one other that i cant remember off hand.

All the same that you mentioned.

:/

 

[coathanger007]

Oops, that's the comparison between previous versions. There has been some obvious copycatting by OpenOffice - that's a pity for innovation but a benefit for Opensource

 

[coathanger007]

Could the whiz kids from above merge this with the Opensource thread.

 

[NetRyder]

Originally posted by coathanger007
Could the whiz kids from above merge this with the Opensource thread.

Posts merged