21. There is a list of chosen Open-Source Software here:

http://people.via.ecp.fr/~jb/oss/

It is in French, but up to date, and some soft are unknown but great.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jay Bi

22. TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS are two great FLOSS programs for source code management on Windows. TSVN is the only application which I *really* miss when using my linux box. Sadly, there don't seem to be 'nix equivalents.

One of my other favourites which is not mentioned here is Cream, a frontend for Vim which makes it down right friendly.

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
http://cream.sourceforge.net/

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by matt wilkie

23. Also NASA WorldWind, which is a bit like Google Earth, another example of a fine FLOSS program which is windows-only.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by matt wilkie

24. Eclipse is a Free Software IDE available for numerous platforms (Windows 98-ME, Windows NT-XP, GNU/Linux, *BSD*, Solaris, Mac OS X, and others). And it's not just a Java IDE, like many people think. With Eclipse's plugin system, Eclipse suddenly becomes the IDE we've all dreamed of using; I use Eclipse for Java, PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, C#, LISP, JavaScript... the list goes on and on! Give it a try; you won't regret it!

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Christopher Parker

25. Something that I really want to see is an open-source collaboration tool like Groove (www.groove.net). There are several web-based collaboration software but none of them are comparable to what Groove can provide.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Seattle web design

26. Good list, I wish there was more open sourced tools for education though. I second or third the recomendation to try out UltraVNC instead of TightVNC. Oh yea, and maybe clean out your comments as I smell SPAM.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Will

27. Freemind, a Java mindmapping program.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Elaine

28. Another project that bundles FLOSS for Windows is TheOpenCD project:

http://www.theopencd.org/

- Robert

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Robert Citek

29. Any recommendations for CD burning or DVD burning software on Windows that is FLOSS? SF's OSSwin site does have a listing of burning software:

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#cdwriting

but most don't seem to be ready for the casual user, i.e. something equivalent to K3B on Linux:

http://www.k3b.org/

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Robert Citek

30. The more I am forced to use Windows, the more grateful I am that there's a Vim port for it.

If you use GnuPG on Windows, check out WinPT, a nice GUI front-end. Makes managing lots of keys a little easier.

Other indispensible software?

GsView - Ghostscript Viewer. Not as feature-full as Acrobat Reader (and, frankly, pretty ugly) but FAST!

I hear lots of people talk about Cygwin. I never really understood why Microsoft's own unix environment (Services for Unix) never really took off in the geek sector. It's FREE, provides a full POSIX environment (NOT an emulation layer like Cygwin), and there's plenty of entities out there supporting it. You can use the NetBSD package collection, the ports from InteropSystems, you can even get a pretty decent X Server called X-Desktop (KDE on Win, anyone?).

I like Cdex for ripping CDs in a hurry, honestly haven't found anything quite as nice on Linux (that includes Grip). I also really like EAC, which I think is Win-only as well. I also use open-source SHN and FLAC codec tools.

Plenty of little command-line tools have windows ports that can make your day a lot easier: grep, lynx, PDFTK (if you work with PDFs regularly, you NEED this). The list goes on and on....

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Anonymous

31. Dont forget putty ssh client (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) . I am not sure about the license but it is basically freeware and is the best ssh client I know of.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by dave

32. Filezilla is really great for those that still use FTP.

http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jimmy

33. Yes, but most of them are ported from open source operating systems.

Personally, I don't have my favorite open source software for Windows, as I use GNU/Linux (Gentoo). But I remember from my "Windows age" that I used PuTTY (SSH client), WinSCP (SCP/SFTP client) and The GIMP.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Kristaps Kaupe

34. Nice list of Open Source stuff. Although TightVNC is a great VNC program, I have found that UltraVNC has more features that I like such as File Transfer, Chat, and Encryption of Traffic. Just take a look at UltraVNC as a n alternative to TightVNC.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Redlobo

35. Use Notepad2 instead of Notepad and have a life!

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Steve

36. I second, third, and fourth cygwin. You can practically emulate a full FOSS environment there. Most of the tools I would list here separately (wget/curl, perl, OpenSSH) are already included.

gvim is always handy. gaim replaces all my IM clients (there's even a nice Sametime plugin). And let's not forget OpenOffice.org.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Kyle

37. gimp is a great open source image editor but if you just want a great open source image *viewer* try "imgv" (http://imgv.sf.net/) it runs in windows, linux, bsd, osx and more

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by ryan

38. http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/Its an amazing p2p application. It uses multiple networks so you get lots of files. It even opens torrent files.

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Not Telling

39. KeePass Password Safe -- Efficient & has better features than anything else http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

PeerGuardian 2 -- Works in the background, takes up almost no resources/CPU and updates itself. http://www.methlabs.org/

Notepad++ -- Quick, markup for just about any language. Gread notepad replacement. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by adin

40. ClamAV -- Open Source AntiVirus. 'Nuff said. http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/ or

GnuWin32 -- Cygwin without the need for additional libraries. Turns the DOS commandline
into something useful. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/

And finally, a kick-a** online multiplayer game. Armegetron Advanced -- Lightcycles from Tron http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetronad/

Posted at 6:34AM on Dec 19th 2005 by adin