[hblug] Free Windows Apps

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

I'm on this list, because your site went offline, and I'm the dmoz.org
maintainer of the LUGs category. I'm not kiwi, but rather Israeli.
Anyway, I noticed this message in my gmail inbox, and thought I'd
comment.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:48 AM, chris morris <racepics at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> If you built a windows computer for someone ( client / friend / family /
> whatever ) what software would you pre-install?
>
>  When I build machines for clients, this is what they get as standard:
>
>  Firefox
>  Thunderbird
>  OpenOffice
>  Irfanview
>  Media Player Classic
>  7zip
>  AVG Free
>  Spybot S&D
>

I also like Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/ . I also like the
Windows version of gvim ( http://www.vim.org/ ), but not sure I'd
recommend it for native windows' users as it is  somewhat not
Windows-like (naturally). There are other more native editors like
Notepad++ . In Israel Bi-directional text (Latin/Hebrew or
Latin/Arabic) is a big issue, but it may be less so in .nz.

I also like PySol - now PySolFC seems the way to go -
http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/ . Are you interested in games? There
are plenty of decent FOSS games (and small games) for Windows.

What else? Perl/Python/PHP/Ruby/Tcl/Apache/MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite -
you get the idea. Laymen may not really have a use for them but I find
Perl and other things very useful. I'm also dependent on Subversion (
http://subversion.tigris.org/ ) even for normal documents and
web-sites.

Now that I think of it nvu, or one of its offspring may be a good idea:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Composer

You may also wish to include a bitmap-editing program like GIMP or
Paint.NET (which is FOSS, but possibly Windows-specific).

>  That covers most peoples needs, if they want to p2p I'll add Frostwire
> and/or Azureus
>
>  There is a nice list here http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
>

Hmmmm... I wanted to give this link as I found it in Google. Never mind. :-)

Regards,

          Shlomi Fish

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Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done
that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much.