Best Free Open Source Software For Windows 324
snydeq writes "InfoWorld surveys the FOSS-on-Windows landscape, detailing the 10 free open source solutions most likely to unseat proprietary offerings. 'Some, like TrueCrypt and VirtualBox, are real diamonds in the rough: enterprise-grade solutions that deliver many of the same bells and whistles of their commercial brethren, but for free. Others, like Firefox and OpenOffice.org, are already legendary, and their strong followings ensure their continued development and support at levels that rival the best proprietary solutions.'" Rather than click through 10 different pages, the slideshow presentation at least lets you hover over each page's link to preview the author's top picks.
Re:The list, for those who don't care about pictur (Score:1, Funny)
Your commentary is almost entirely without value.
Let's see, you diss Firefox, then make a lame, go-nowhere comment about Chrome.
4 of the applications you've either never tried or use so little you have nothing useful to say.
GIMP is simply way too much application for 90% of the users out there. Great app., but it's got a steep learning curve, just as PhotoShop and CorelDraw do.
Oh, and I love the comment about OpenOffice: "...who outside of business users really needs a full office suite anymore...". Oh, well then, that solves it. Business users don't matter so we can ignore them completely.
Re:VirtualBox, eh? (Score:3, Funny)
--My shiny 1 GB graphics card becomes a 128 MB POS in the guests.
Yes, that certainly is a disadvantage compared to other virtualisation products which do exactly the same fucking thing.