[Only Topic]Open source softwares
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[Only Topic]Open source softwares
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Even if we tend to use paid programs (as known as "proprietary" softwares) such as Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, etc., we don't always have the money to pay these expensive licences, and piracy (downloading and distributing proprietary softwares with cracks/keygens) isn't advisable because of risks of bugs, and the fact that it is illegal..
For this reason, I make a list of opensource softwares. They are a nice alternative to proprietary softwares, and most of all, they are free, and their distribution is legal because the license (such as GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, BSD, etc.) allow you to distribute copies of these softwares, to study ttheir source, modify it and sell copies, so there is no piracy issue with opensource softwares since the opensource philosopy is based on sharing.
I will sort them by type.
2D Image editing
- GIMP : http://www.gimp.org
- Paint.NET : http://www.getpaint.net
Vector drawing
- Inkscape : http://www.inkscape.org
- Sodipodi : http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3
3D Modeling
- Blender : http://www.blender.org
Office suite
- OpenOffice.org : http://openoffice.org
Raw text editor
- Notepad++ : http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
HTML Editor
- Kompozer (ex-NVU) : http://www.kompozer.net/
(note : NVU has changed its name for Kompozer since NVU's author has stopped its development. Kaze has taken back the sources to make a bug fix release under the new name
Web browser
- Mozilla Firefox : http://www.mozilla-europe.org
FTP Clients
- FileZilla (for Windows) : http://www.filezilla.org
- gFTP (for Linux) : http://gftp.seul.org
- CyberDuck (for Mac) : http://cyberduck.ch
Mail client
- Mozilla Thunderbird : http://www.mozilla-europe.org
Archiving/Extraction
- 7-zip : http://www.7-zip.org
Sound editor
- Audacity : http://www.audacity.org/
Audio/video player
- VLC Media Player : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Content management systems (Web portals, forums, etc.)
- Online opensource CMS testing website : http://opensourcecms.com
Operating systems
- Linux Ubuntu distributions : http://www.ubuntu.com/
Even if we tend to use paid programs (as known as "proprietary" softwares) such as Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, etc., we don't always have the money to pay these expensive licences, and piracy (downloading and distributing proprietary softwares with cracks/keygens) isn't advisable because of risks of bugs, and the fact that it is illegal..
For this reason, I make a list of opensource softwares. They are a nice alternative to proprietary softwares, and most of all, they are free, and their distribution is legal because the license (such as GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, BSD, etc.) allow you to distribute copies of these softwares, to study ttheir source, modify it and sell copies, so there is no piracy issue with opensource softwares since the opensource philosopy is based on sharing.
I will sort them by type.
2D Image editing
- GIMP : http://www.gimp.org
- Paint.NET : http://www.getpaint.net
Vector drawing
- Inkscape : http://www.inkscape.org
- Sodipodi : http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3
3D Modeling
- Blender : http://www.blender.org
Office suite
- OpenOffice.org : http://openoffice.org
Raw text editor
- Notepad++ : http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
HTML Editor
- Kompozer (ex-NVU) : http://www.kompozer.net/
(note : NVU has changed its name for Kompozer since NVU's author has stopped its development. Kaze has taken back the sources to make a bug fix release under the new name
Web browser
- Mozilla Firefox : http://www.mozilla-europe.org
FTP Clients
- FileZilla (for Windows) : http://www.filezilla.org
- gFTP (for Linux) : http://gftp.seul.org
- CyberDuck (for Mac) : http://cyberduck.ch
Mail client
- Mozilla Thunderbird : http://www.mozilla-europe.org
Archiving/Extraction
- 7-zip : http://www.7-zip.org
Sound editor
- Audacity : http://www.audacity.org/
Audio/video player
- VLC Media Player : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Content management systems (Web portals, forums, etc.)
- Online opensource CMS testing website : http://opensourcecms.com
Operating systems
- Linux Ubuntu distributions : http://www.ubuntu.com/
Re: [Only Topic]Open source softwares
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Also, instead of making this a list thread, I thought it would be more interesting to transform it into a discussion thread about open sources
P.S: You missed an important one on the list
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Also, instead of making this a list thread, I thought it would be more interesting to transform it into a discussion thread about open sources
P.S: You missed an important one on the list
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