Best of Open Source Software on Windows
Saturday, 11 December 2004
Get a taste of Freedom! The newest version of OpenCD 2.0 is out. The OpenCD is a collection of best-of-breed Free/Open Source Software collection for the Windows platform.
Software carried in the CD:
Productivity
- OpenOffice 1.1.3
- AbiWord 2.2.1
- PDFCreator 0.8
Design
- GIMP 2.0.5
- Blender 2.35a
- Dia 0.94
- TuxPaint 0.9.14
Internet/Networking
- FireFox 1.0
- Thunderbird 1.0
- Mozilla suite 1.7.3
- Gaim 1.1.0
- Filezilla 2.2.9
- TightVNC 1.3dev6
- WinHTTrack 3.32-2
Multimedia
- Audacity 1.2.3
- Celestia 1.3.2
- CDex 1.51
Utilities
- 7-zip 3.13
- Notepad2 1.0.12
- SciTE 1.62
Games
- Sokoban 1.187
- Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.8
- Lbreakout 2.4.1
Given that it carries these many softwares, it might have been a problem of aplenty. But that has been taken care by an excellent program browser, which allows you to read about the software and see the screenshots of the applications before installing them.
This augurs well for the acceptance of Open Source software amongst not-too-technical computer uers. Polish often is taken for goodness. Well, there you have that too now. :)
Swaraj 3.0Perhaps its time for me rejuvanate my Swaraj project. Swaraj is a FOSS distribution aimed at windows users. It has more software than the OpenCD collection. It includes many science/visualisation applications and programming tools.
I would be very happy if some CD vendros contact me with willingness to press/market this product. I can be reached at pradeep at btbytes dot com.
4 Comments:
Hi pradeep,
do you know where to get the OpenCD v2.0 in
bangalore?
can leave a comment here, or
mail me at srikanta at gmail dot com
thanks!
--srikanta
Hello Pradeep,
I have found another GNU based Windows Softwares. The project name is GNUwin. I have downloaded the two CD's . This has got lots of engineering softwares like Sci Lan, Linux CAD, Openoffice also.
Hello Pradeep,
I have found another GNU based Windows Softwares. The project name is GNUwin. I have downloaded the two CD's . This has got lots of engineering softwares like Sci Lan, Linux CAD, Openoffice also.
A better collection of Free Software for Windows is available from GNU Generation called GNUwin. It has two cds full of Free softwares for Windows. Many Multimedia and Science applications like xine, octave... in additions to the popular free softwares like openoffice and gimp.
Check their site at
GNUWin -- Open your Windows ! http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/
3D Games
* Celestia
* glTron
* Tux Racer
* BZFlag
* Flight Gear
more...
Computer Security
* Eraser - File Shredder
* GPG - GNU Privacy Guard
* OpenSSL
* WinPT
* Nmap
more...
Desktop Environments
* LiteStep
Development
* MinGW32 gcc C/C++/Java/Fortran Compiler
* XEmacs
* Blender
* Pascal Develop
* SiePerl
more...
Education
* Solfege
* Tux Paint - paint for children
* TuxType
Engineering
* Dia
* LeoCAD
* gEDA - GPL Electronic Design Automation
* QCad
Games
* Crack Attack!
* Free Civ
* Frozen Bubble
* GNU Chess
* LBreakout2
more...
Graphics
* The Gimp
* Sodipodi
* Blender
* povray
* Dia
more...
Internet and communications
* Mozilla Firefox
* Gaim
* Mozilla
* PuTTY
* Ethereal
more...
Multimedia
* VideoLAN Client
* mplayer - a media player
* OpenDivX -- Project Mayo
* winLAME
* Zinf Audio Player
more...
Office
* OpenOffice.org
* XEmacs
* Abi Word
* GNU - Ghostscript
* LaTeX (MiKTeX)
more...
Operating systems
* GNU GRUB
* Cooperative Linux
* DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS
* FreeDOS
* Gestor de Arranque Gráfico
more...
Other
* DRKSpider
* WinPenguins
* cygwin - UNIX command line
Sciences and Math
* Maxima
* Octave
* Celestia
* R
* Scilab
more...
Servers and database
* Database Design Tool
* Apache web server
* MySQL - Database
* PHP
* Unison
Utilities
* 7-Zip
* antiword
* gzip
* UnxUtils
* wmfishtime - Fish, Time, Date, Bubbles
more...
And their next version will have
DeeEnEs A Note Adonthell - an open source roleplaying game
Ant Renamer beepage BIND
BitTorrent bochs - an x86 emulator
BSPlayer
Bug Squish CamStudio
cdlabelgen - a free cd label generator
CodeWorker Ek! - Esperanta Klavaro gAlan, Graphical Audio Langague
gcompris GNU VCDImager GNUstep Development Environment
GPS Babel Grisbi, Personal Finance Manager for All Knockin
KOPS libcaca - textmode picture viewer LilyPond
LyX - a WISIWIM document processor nasm - Netwide Assembler NmapWin
Open Watcom Pdf Creator phpMyAdmin
POPFile Automatic Email Sorting using Naive Bayes PostgreSQL scriptbasic a BASIC interpreter/compiler
Space Invaders SpamPal SuperTux - 2D jump 'n run
Synergy TestDisk TeXniCcenter - A free clone for WINEDT
The Mozilla Thunderbird mail project thttpd timidity++
UPX - ultimate packer for executables XOSL - Extended OS Loader ZynAddSubFX