Great Open Source and/or Free Replacements for Windows Software

Written by Ellie on Jun 25th, 2007 | Filed under: Geek Girl
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Geek GirlIf you are working on a budget or just like tinkering, these programs are great replacements for Windows software. I’ve used quite a few of them (look for a * next to the ones I’ve used) and starting late July, I’ll be doing reviews of some of them.

Good luck!

Anti-Virus:

* AVG Free - http://free.grisoft.com/doc/28415/lng/us/tpl/v5

* Avast! Antivirus - http://www.avast.com/

PDF Reader:

* Foxit Reader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Media Players:

* VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Web Browsers:

* Firefox- http://www.getfirefox.com

* Opera - http://www.opera.com

Email:

* Thunderbird - http://www.getthunderbird.com

Bit-Torrent Client:

* uTorrent - http://www.utorrent.com/

Anti-Spyware:

* Spybot: Search and Destroy-http://www.safer-networking.org/

IM:

* Gaim: http://gaim.sourceforge.net

* Meebo: http://www.meebo.com

Firewall:

* Comodo Firewall Pro http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/


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4 Comments

2007-08-30 21:16:05

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Comment by Juliana Peña
2007-08-30 23:08:23

Actually, most of these aren’t open source, but freeware. The only open source there is VLC, Firefox, Thunderbird, and Gaim. The rest are free as in $0 but proprietary. Just thought someone should make a distinction.

Comment by Ellie
2007-08-30 23:12:36

I stand corrected. :oops:

 
 
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