The Open Source community offers so many wonderful utilities out there, it’s hard to be aware of them all, let alone keep track of them! I offer this post more for my personal record, but hopefully the links will be useful to those of you that may not have tried some of the following programs. Okay, not all of these are Open Source, but they’re free!
Some of my favorite Open Source, free, or inexpensive software apps out there include:
CD/DVD/ISO burning software:
InfraRecorder
http://infrarecorder.org/
CDBurnerXP (requires .NET framework)
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php
Password Management:
KeePass
http://keepass.info/download.html
Virtual Host Desktop Software:
Oracle VM VirtualBox
http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html
Remote Desktop Apps:
Royal TS (requires .NET Framework 4.0)
http://code4ward.net/main/RoyalTS/Download.aspx
Windows ZIP Archive Utility:
FTP File Transfer Client:
FileZilla
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client
FLAC player (Free Lossless Audio Codec):
FLAC is the best. I love it.
WinAmp
http://www.winamp.com
MP3 player:
(see FLAC player)
Image Editor:
Gimp
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Media Player (for movies):
GOM Player
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html
Office Tools:
Notepad++
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/
Big Wiki deployment:
MediaWiki
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download
Twiki
http://twiki.org/
Small, personal Wiki:
(all-in-one HTML file)
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
