What free software do you use?

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Flippy the Squirrel

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I just downloaded and installed foobar2000 because Winamp was making me stabby, but I wanted a media player that was compatible with Last.FM.

I have been exceptionally satisfied, so far, with foobar2000, and am thinking of dumping Winamp and Windows Media Player for good. This got me thinking ... what other good free stuff am I missing? I'd like to know what free software you guys use, and how you like it.

I'll start with a small list of what I use ...

AVG Anti-Virus
GIMP - Open Source Image editing and so much more
foobar2000 - Free Media Player
Pidgin IM - Open Source Multi protocol Instant Messenger
7Zip - Zip file software
Bink and Smacker (RAD Video Tools) - Video conversion (used in many games)
Audacity - Audio file conversion and editing
OpenOffice - Office Suite
PuTTY - Manly SSH Client

I'm sure there's more ... what do you use?
 
I have AVG anti-virus since I have Windows 64 and I like it.
 
VLC Player - Handles audio and video in almost any format with a lower memory overhead and less errors than any other player I've tried.
CCCP - Combined Community Codec Pack, has every audio/video codec you will ever need.

Install both of these on a clean install of windows and you'd have a hard time finding a video you couldn't run.
 
I use Notepad++ for programming most of the time. It's a great general purpose Notepad replacement.
 
Notepad and calculator

but seriously, AVG is really the only thing i can think of
 
OpenOffice, PCPitstop, that's about it.

I'm looking at AVG anti-virus, and it's telling me I have to buy it...there some other version I don't know about?
 
[link=http://www.avast.com/]Avast Anti-virus[/link] - I like it better than AVG free because with Avast you can use it on more than one computer "legally" while AVG free anti-virus is good for one system (that is if you want to be uptight like me).
It also has more options so I like that too.

GIMP - used very rarely.
 
GIMP, LMMS, Rosegarden, VLC Player, Pidgin, BZFlag, Armagetron, Enigma, OpenOffice, and IceCast.

Just to name a few.
 
VLC is a dream with my MKV files.
I used to have AVG, but now i work for an AV company, so... i switched (and now it's better, and still free for me!)
Soulseek
Azureus
Copypod
CCCP
FLAC
Audacity
Photoshop -Not free, but mines was... don't tell!!!
 
Also, CDBurnerXP is a brilliant free CD/DVD burning utility.

And Cobian Backup is the single most useful backup tool I've encountered. We use it here at work to do a weekly complete backup as well as an incremental backup, all to an off-site FTP.
 
Under Linux (aside from Linux itself):
KDE
The GIMP
Inkscape
OpenOffice
Firefox
Thunderbird
KTorrent
Netbeans 6 <-- awesome platform
Eclipse
VIM <-- best text editor ever
Pidgin
MPlayer
Audacity
K3B
TVTime
URxvt

well... just about everything.

Under Windows:
VLC
Azuerus
Audacity
Notepad++
FileZilla
Netbeans
Eclipse
GVIM
Firefox
Thunderbird
The GIMP
Inkscape
foobar2000

and a few others...
 
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[link=http://www.avast.com/]Avast Anti-virus[/link] - I like it better than AVG free because with Avast you can use it on more than one computer "legally" while AVG free anti-virus is good for one system (that is if you want to be uptight like me).
It also has more options so I like that too.

GIMP - used very rarely.

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I used Avast for a while, but I keep going back to AVG for the smaller footprint and less flashy interface. Maybe I'll give it another try.
 
Winamp
Firefox
Winrar
Bittorrent
HLSW
Ventrilo
DivX
AnyDvD
Sandboxie

There are more, but that's what's on me desktop.
 
  • Free AVG
  • FireFox
  • VLC (more manly than PuTTY)
  • uTorrent
  • PuTTY (very manly indeed!)
  • Winamp 2.something because all the newer versions make me
    stabby too
  • VNC for managing "the fleet" remotely

...I know there are more, but they're fairly common, like Ventrilo.

Oh, and pretty much everything on my Linux machine is free.
 
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