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.
Lisp in a Box (Score:2, Interesting)
Not going to be the next firefox in terms of popularity... but lisp in a box is just nice for getting into lisp/emacs on any platform. Used to be a big learning curve how to set slime, etc. up and all that.
http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/ [common-lisp.net]
paint.net? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Truecrypt (Score:1, Interesting)
What's the point of an encrypted disk on a server? Isn't the whole point of a server to "serve" that data constantly (ie the data is availble at all times)? I mean, unless you unmount/remount the volumes each time you use them, encryption isn't really doing anything but taking up extra CPU cycles.
Re:paint.net? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:OpenOffice legendary? (Score:1, Interesting)
This will be unpopular but... (Score:2, Interesting)
So does Corel's WordPerfect product.
(and yes, I do have OpenOffice installed on this machine...I'm just sayin')
Re:What about VLC? (Score:3, Interesting)
Surely VLC [videolan.org] should have made this list?
The list was posted on a U.S. web site. VLC contains patented algorithms but doesn't come with a license to use the algorithms in the United States.
AutoHotKey and AutoIt are a necessity. (Score:3, Interesting)
AutoIt [autoitscript.com] makes programs that do automatic installations for examples.
Both can imitate keystrokes and mouse movements.