[Windows] Open Source Software.

[SPeedY_B]

This Thread needs to return
I believe this was the link that started it: http://www.jairlie.com/oss/suggestedapplications.html

Feel free to post your open source recommendations and software upadtes.
Recent updates that I know of are X-Chat (2.0.7) and VLC (0.7.0)

 

[Grandmaster]

Like it's been stated in the old thread, http://sourceforge.net is a great place to get Open Source software.

What is Open Source Software?

The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.

 

[Grandmaster]

Oh and should this not be moved to the Applications forum?

 

[dreamliner77]

The *best* mp3 encoder. Use it wisely, and RTFM before you make crappy mp3's.

LAME

 

[sboulema]

Turbopad: advanced text editor
http://turbopad.sourceforge.net/

Winmerge: Compare 2 text files
http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/

ABC: Bittorrent client
http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/

TortoiseCVS: easy CVS working
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/

Filezilla: FTP app
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

7-Zip: archiver
http://www.7-zip.org/

 

[NetRyder]

So many great threads gone

 

[sboulema]

Yes, but so many threads are getting rebuild, with all new fresh info

 

[Geffy]

OpenOffice at OpenOffice.org

 

[NetRyder]

Yep, nice to see everything coming back

 

[NetRyder]

Mozilla Firebird - Web Browser
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird

Mozilla Thunderbird - Mail Client
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

Apache - HTTP Web Server
http://www.apache.org

Audacity - Sound/music file processing
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

BurnAtOnce - Data/Audio CD burning with Multisession support
http://www.burnatonce.com/

burst! - Alternative BitTorrent client
http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/

DC++ - Alternative DirectConnect P2P client
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Fwink - Webcam software
http://lundie.ca/fwink/

UltraVNC - Alternative VNC (remote desktop) server/client with better compression and extra features
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net

VirtualDub - Video processing
http://www.virtualdub.org/

 

[Heeter]

Any VPN software Freeware, open source out there? I am looking for a good one.

Heeter

 

[NetRyder]

Windows XP has a simple, basic VPN already built-in using RRAS.
Do you need something more configurable?

 

[Heeter]

Using XP Home for VPN server.

I did see the wizard for it, and did try to configure it, but I had a great deal of trouble configuring the passwords part. Thought I'd try freeware instead.

Heeter

 

[Glaanieboy]

Can't get UltraVNC to work I opened up ports 5800 and 5900 (the ports UVNC uses) at my home computer, UVNC client on my shcool computer makes a connection, I see the desktop, but I can't do anything.The mouse arrow doesn't move, just stands still, I can't click anything. Back to Remote Desktop Connection for me.

 

[Henyman]

the best Irc client i have used http://www.hydrairc.com/ very fast to load + easy to use

 

[SPeedY_B]

Can't get UltraVNC to work I opened up ports 5800 and 5900 (the ports UVNC uses) at my home computer, UVNC client on my shcool computer makes a connection, I see the desktop, but I can't do anything.The mouse arrow doesn't move, just stands still, I can't click anything. Back to Remote Desktop Connection for me.

Have you set the server to allow remote-control ? I believe that it's disabled by default.

 

[SPeedY_B]

the best Irc client i have used http://www.hydrairc.com/ very fast to load + easy to use

Aren't they going to charge for it once it reaches v1.0 though? or are they going to change that?

I know that they got booted off sourceforge for not being truly open source..

 

[Henyman]

i'm not sure what there gona do, i cant really see them changing anything major compared to what it is now

 

[SPeedY_B]

Slapping a price tag on a free product is a major change Surely they'll make the preference side of things more accessible. They may no charge for it after-all though, I guess we'll see.

X-Chat still owns it though

 

[Enyo]

X-Chat still owns it though

Totally.