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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos                     Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6285 days Last view: 6285 days |
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Unix-like/free operating systemsThis list is for free operating systems such as BSD and GNU/Linux. If you want a completely free OS, don't install software marked "PROPRIETARY" Operating Systems themselvesFedora Core - Nice and simple, Red Hat based and a very large community to turn for help. Ubuntu / Kubuntu - Semi-New OS (started Oct 2004) based on Debian, designed for users that never used computers before; pretty nice for those looking for a new OS also. CentOS - An operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; recompiled to obey RH's requirements in order to redistribute (basically remove the name "Red Hat" and logos) PC-BSD - An OS based on FreeBSD, made easy-to-use by having a graphical installer and uses KDE by default for its desktop. Debian - Gives you complete choice of what software is going onto your system, while being easy to install. Desktop environments and window managersKDE - Complete DE including a desktop, panel, web browser, window manager, text editors, games, and all that good stuff. GNOME - Like KDE, it's a complete DE including a desktop, panel, web browser, etc. In my opinion, the releases aren't as polished as KDE, but it's up to you to decide what you like best. XFCE - Not-so-complete DE that includes the window manager, a panel, control panel, and file manager. Like GNOME, it's built on GTK, so such applications will also blend into this. GNUstep/WindowMaker - WindowMaker's a window manager, and GNUstep is a library. Not much of a DE, but with a bunch of OPENSTEP/GNUstep applications, it can be one. Like NeXTSTEP. (There's some support for Cocoa applications in GNUstep, but not all APIs) Fluxbox - Extremely lightweight window manager. About as much as you can get. Web BrowsersMozilla lololol - Not much explaination needed here, a web browser built on the Mozilla framework to have little features built-in, so that you can expand it with features you want. SeaMonkey - The Mozilla Foundation cancelled development of Mozilla Suite. So Suite-lovers got together and continue it on their own. (Possibly faster and lighter on resources than lololol, but it's debatable) Konqueror - Comes with KDE by default (part of kdebase; it's rare to find someone that left it out). Outstanding browser with support for HTML4, XHTML, and CSS1/2/3. Recently passed Acid2. Also doubles as a great file manager and (simple) FTP application. Opera - Claims to be the fastest browser, sacrificing web standards-support for speed. It seems to be the same speed as lololol for me, but here you go if you like it. PROPRIETARY Galeon - A GTK browser with the Gecko rendering engine. Integrates well into XFCE and GNOME. Epiphany - The official web browser for GNOME; similar to Galeon. Dillo - The fastest GUI browser ever made (yes, faster than Opera or lololol or Konqueror). Aims to fully support HTML4 also. IRC, IM, etcGaim - Lightweight, cross-platform GTK IM client that supports many protocols. Kopete - The KDE Instant Messenger. Like Gaim, it supports many protocols. Plus video chat over Yahoo! and MSN. (This comes with most full-blown KDE installs, but not all; part of kdenetwork) X-Chat - GTK cross-platform IRC client with many features. Skype - Free-of-charge voice chat platform. PROPRIETARY RSS agregatorsaKregator - Easy-to-use program that's yet another official KDE component (in kdenetwork). Peer-to-PeerAzureus - Popular Java BitTorrent program with tons of features. KTorrent - KDE BiTorrent program with most of Azureus' features, plus an integrated search for many popular BT search engines. (This is not an official KDE application, so you probably will need to get it separate from "KDE"). BitTorrent - Let's not forget the official BT client! ... it pretty much sucks though 
GTK-Gnutella - Connects to some of the popular classical P2P protocols. Gnutella, Gnutella2, Limewire, etc MultimediaMPlayer - It does everyting (with proper codecs installed, of course) Audacious - Originally a fork of BeepMP with some new features, but then BeepMP was officially discontinued in favor of a client/server thing that hasn't been finished yet. So it's pretty much XMMS using GTK+2 and some other stuff. XMMS - GTK+1 Winamp clone, mostly obseleted by Beep, but retains the doublesize feature that Beep removed for implementation problems. JuK - KDE audio player; it's like iTunes except that it doesn't crash every two minutes. AmaroK - Like JuK, but the UI can take many forms. Xine-ui - It's like MPlayer but with excellent DVD support. VLC - The cross-platform media player with excellent VCD, SVCD, and DVD support. Totem - Minimalist media player for GNOME. Audacity - Nice audio grabber and editor. Graphics stuffGIMP - Almost every feature that Photoshop has, GIMP has. That says enough. Oh yeah, some people seem to forget that GIMP, like Photoshop, isn't meant as a simple painting program. Krita - Another professional photo editor, like Photoshop or GIMP. Technically, it's part of KOffice. KolourPaint - Simple painting program that's like MS Paint, official KDE project (part of kdegraphics). Xpdf - A PDF program, it looks ugly though so there's a few front-ends to the underlying source. It also obeys PDF authors' wishes for locking you from copying from or printing a PDF; search Google to find a fix if you want/need it. KPDF - KDE PDF program, based on Xpdf but doesn't look ugly! Evince - PDF, PostScript, djvu, tiff, and dvi viewer for GNOME. Office / Productivity SoftwareOpenOffice.org - Complete office suite that can easily replace MS Office or WordPerfect Office. KOffice - Complete office suite for KDE. AbiWord - Lightweight, cross-platform GTK word processor. Similar to MS Word Gnumeric - Spreadsheet application similar to MS Excel (recently got a Windows port). Designed and works for scientific data, but can be used for general stuff. Scribus - Professional desktop publishing! (edited by FreeDOS + on 02-15-06 09:25 PM) (edited by FreeDOS + on 02-22-06 04:58 PM) (edited by FreeDOS + on 03-26-06 03:29 PM) (edited by FreeDOS + on 08-08-06 01:53 AM) (edited by FreeDOS + on 09-17-06 08:43 PM) (edited by FreeDOS + on 02-06-07 03:58 AM) |
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Nebetsu Mole  Since: 11-17-05 From: WarKoL Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| Here's some more to add to the list.
Desktop Environments Fluxbox - This is about as lightweight as you can get. It's not too hard to configure and runs really well. P2P GTK-Gnutella - Good Gnutella client. Connects to Limewire, Sharaza, Bearshare, as well as many other networks. Multimedia xine-ui - Nice, lightweight player. Plays DVD's and everything. Never had a problem with it and it runs really well. (edited by Nebetsu on 02-15-06 09:11 PM) |
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Guy Perfect Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6287 days Last view: 6286 days |
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| I recommend Totem for a media player. It has all the standard features (audio/video playback, playlists, etc.) and is relatively low-profile. It stays minimized when opening new files from the shell, which is always nice. Just load up a playlist in shuffle mode and stash the window in another workspace and you get background music for the ages. | |||
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Nebetsu Mole Since: 11-17-05 From: WarKoL Last post: 6299 days Last view: 6299 days |
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Audacity - A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux Office Scribus - An open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix (edited by Nebetsu on 08-08-06 02:43 PM) |
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||bass Administrator  Since: 11-17-05 From: Salem, Connecticut Last post: 6287 days Last view: 6285 days |
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Krita - Part of the KOffice suite, a full featured image editing program. Possibly not the most flexible editor in history, but by far one of the easiest to use. |
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