Open Source Software for Windows

[SPeedY_B]

Have to bump this.. brilliant thread

 

[NetRyder]

Have to bump this.. brilliant thread

I agree

Just made it a "sticky" again, so we can keep it going.

 

[Abbadon2001]

very interesting information indeed, i will have to have a look at some of the open source programs when i have some spare time after exams are all over!

 

[NetRyder]

Continuing the tradition of posting FileZilla updates, we're up to 2.2.6 now. This was released earlier this month, but I just thought I'd mention it for those who haven't updated yet.
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

 

[coathanger007]

Shareaza is the most luxurious and sophisticated file sharing system you'll find. It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including EDonkey2000, Gnutella, BitTorrent and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2).

Not only that, but Shareaza is completely FREE and won't show any annoying ads or pop-ups. It won't install any unwanted third party programs that can wreak havoc with your computer. No spyware, no registration, no "paid version". Just download and use. Simple.

AND NOW OPEN SOURCE
http://www.shareaza.com/?id=tour

 

[coathanger007]

About AbiWord
The Beginning

Like most Open Source projects, AbiWord started as a cathedral, but has become more like a bazaar. AbiWord is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the project's word processor.

SourceGear released the source code to AbiWord and a developer community quickly formed around the project. SourceGear has since then stopped working on the project.

The developer community has since then continued to make improvements and increase the quality of AbiWord. Version 1.0 was released in April 2002, followed by Version 2.0 in September 2003. Currently, we're all working hard towards our future Version 2.2 release.
What Makes AbiWord Different?

AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

Currently we run on most UNIX systems, Windows 95 and later, QNX Neutrino 6.2. We also have a MacOS X native port in the way (you can still use the UNIX version on MacOS X if you want). There used to be a BeOS port, but that version has been gone unmaitained for too long to consider it as still alive; we dreamt that it was any different, so if you want to help, feel free to contact us.

http://www.abisource.com/

 

[NetRyder]

FileZilla 2.2.8b released: http://www.osnn.net/comments.php?shownews=10884

 

[coathanger007]

Hope this hasn't been posted yet.
Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects..
Audacity is being developed by a team of volunteers under the open-source model. It is written in C and C++, using the wxWidgets cross-platform toolkit. All of the source code to the program is made available under the GNU General Public License, which essentially allows anyone to modify the source code as long as they publicize the changes. The code is hosted on SourceForge.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about.php?lang=en

 

[dreamliner77]

Yeah, great program. And even updated today.

 

[coathanger007]

http://www.blender3d.com/

Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X under the GNU Public License

 

[NetRyder]

That looks fantastic. Probably has a pretty steep learning curve. Look at all those options!

 

[Perris Calderon]

it really looks great...is this similar to maya>

 

[coathanger007]

BTW, Maya Personal Learning Edition is free for non-commercial use
http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/index.shtml

 

[NetRyder]

Time for another revival.

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

 

[NetRyder]

Ultr@VNC is a client/server software that allows you to remotely control a computer over any TCP/IP connection as if you were in front of it. It is Free and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
My favorite of the various different VNC flavors.

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC will play almost *everything*

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

http://gaim.sourceforge.net
I use Gaim in place of the official AIM client.

The Eclipse Project is an open source software development project dedicated to providing a robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, industry platform for the development of highly integrated tools. The mission of the Eclipse Project is to adapt and evolve the eclipse technology to meet the needs of the eclipse tool building community and its users, so that the vision of eclipse as an industry platform is realized.

http://www.eclipse.org/
Nice IDE that I use if I'm coding in Java.

A dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package.

As an open source software project maintained and developed by a community, Drupal is free to download and use.

http://www.drupal.org
Good content management system (CMS) that we use for our university's ACM portal.

 

[tdinc]

I thought I would add to the open source list..."OSSWIN Project" nice site with many apps....link

 

[coathanger007]

RegCompact.NET will tweak Window's performance by optimizing the arrangement of data stored in your system's registry hives.

During the normal operation of a Windows system, registry data is constantly being written to and removed from the registry. Over time this data becomes scattered within the registry file. When information is deleted from the registry holes are left which fragment the data within the registry. Due to this, accessing a few related pieces of information from the registry during program startup could become very slow as the system needs to traverse a very large file to find the data.

RegCompact.NET solves the problem of registry fragmentation and large size by rewriting the registry hives into new files which are completely optimised and often much smaller. Your computer is restarted after the registry hives are compacted and during system startup the old, fragmented files are replaced with the newly generated and optimized ones.

It is recommended to run RegCompact.NET roughly once a month and after program installation and uninstallation to ensure your registry remains optimized.

http://experimentalscene.com/?type=1&id=regcompact

 

[coathanger007]

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

http://www.povray.org/

 

[Elektro Slime]

hi anyone know of any standalone spreadsheet software that can read and write excel files? im not interested in an entire office suite just the spreadsheet progy. (looked at Oo.o but its 51mbs too much for my poor 56k dial up connection). thanz

 

[zeke_mo]

You could order at cd of Oo.o