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Qwisats Haderach
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Post your Favorite freeware/GNU programs here!

mine would have to be................Dev C++


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Grismald
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The Gimp all the way


Team EOD : Programmer :: 3D artist
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Chris K
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 01:01 Edited at: 21st Feb 2005 01:01
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Firefox, Media Player Classic (with QT & Real Alternative), Dev C++
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BearCDPOLD
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Audacity

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ionstream
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 03:27
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Winamp

Firefox

Dev-C++

The GIMP

OpenOffice

BuzzMachines

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Benjamin
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 05:45
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Dev-C++
Firefox
Spybot


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Dave J
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 06:19
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Quote: "Media Player Classic (with QT & Real Alternative)"


Yes, Real Alternative is awesome. For anyone who's sick of the crap that comes with RealOne and RealPlayer, you should definitely get RealAlternative, it's a very basic player with none of the rubbish.


"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers."
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Major Payn
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 11:48
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Gimp
FireFox
Dev C++ (don't use it, but I have it and it looks good!)

Guns arn't the problem, people are the problem, shoot all the people and guns arn't a problem anymore.
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BaZko
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Quote: "Dev C++ (don't use it, but I have it and it looks good!)"

So your decorating your desktop with it....
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Mx5 kris
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wtf...can you FIT that much onto a desktop

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BearCDPOLD
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I once had 20 gigs on my desktop.

Another favorite GNU thing, djgpp.

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Osiris
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 14:35
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Qwisats Haderach
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Posted: 21st Feb 2005 23:10
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CSP is pretty cool. you can have a look at it here http://www.micronovae.com/default_csp.html


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TKF15H
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 00:59
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I support opensource software, but Dev-C++ and lots of GNU stuff are exceptions. Dev-C++ is the worst C++ IDE I've ever used. And I don't like GCC much either. There's a lot of stuff that's opensource I'd choose not to use. Espetially if it's from GNU. Their GPL liscence is horrid. The way Richard Stallman envisions the computer world is self-destructive. He goes on and on about protecting "freedom", by giving this freedom to the end-user, and totally restricting the programmer's freedom.

My two favourite open source projects are Firefox and Irrlicht.
My favourite freeware program is Winamp.

I can't stand OpenOffice, the Gimp just feels wierd, Sodipodi is still unstable, etc.

AphoticVM status: 30% (Yes, that number just went down.) AphoticBasic status: 10%
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Benjamin
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Oh yeah, forgot Irrlicht


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GothOtaku
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 03:01 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2005 00:51
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GCC - The best set of compilers EVER.
GIMP - Essentially a free clone of Photoshop but with extentions.
Gaim - Free AIM/MSN/Yahoo!/IRC/etc. client.
Mozilla - One of the best browsers of all time.
OpenOffice - Free clone of MS Office but works on more OSes.

EDIT: I can't believe I forgot OpenWatcom!
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blanky
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WinAmp, Firefox, Audacity, Thunderbird (Mozilla e-mail), Linux, and Windows is *OCCASIONALLY* alright.

(Note: Okay, I just put Windows in to piss someone off )

Mr Blanky - This Time, It's Personal
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IanG
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 03:39 Edited at: 22nd Feb 2005 03:40
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nsis = nullsoft scriptable install system
linux
firefox
thunderbird

err...i'll add some more when i can find them all on me desktop

Used to be Phoenix_insane registered in september 2003 despite what the date says to the left <--
PC - amd athlon 2.0ghz, 512mb, GeForce FX 5200 128mb, 200gb, xp pro sp2
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ionstream
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TKFISH, what do you use, if not Dev?

I have tried many C++ IDEs, Relo, Codeblocks, DJGPP, be I always go back to Dev-C++, despite it's shortcomings. Speaking of which, new 4.9.9.2 is out.

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TravisP
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 14:08
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Firefox
Dev-C++
AbiWord
Reshack
Spybot
Trillian Lite(Like Gaim, might be better I dont know)

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

Not a ripoff of The Twilight Zone
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TKF15H
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 18:15
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Quote: " TKFISH, what do you use, if not Dev?"

LCC (free if you don't make comercial programs with it) or Visual C++ 6

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Benjamin
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Posted: 22nd Feb 2005 21:46
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LCC is a C only compiler, no?


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GothOtaku
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2005 00:57
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LCC is also inefficient and unreliable.

*Shudders at thought of compiling with the -O flag*
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bitJericho
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2005 01:18
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ugh, openoffice is the worst...

I've been playing around with freeciv lately


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ionstream
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OpenOffice is grood.

Freeciv sucks.

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TKF15H
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2005 06:49
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Yep, LCC is for C only. If I need C++ I use VC6.

Quote: " LCC is also inefficient and unreliable."

But the IDE is miles better. Besides, I've never had problems with it.

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bitJericho
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Quote: "Freeciv sucks"


i am finding that to be true

it's already off my puter


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Pincho Paxton
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What about games? Here's a free Prince of Persia download. Look for 4dPrince.zip


http://www.acid-play.com/download/prince-of-persia-4d/

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Qwisats Haderach
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Posted: 24th Feb 2005 22:06
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BZ flag


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BatVink
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Posted: 24th Feb 2005 23:35
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nice thread, but how about some links.

Google is my friend, but he doesn't want me to get repetitive strain injury, there's a lot of stuff to check out here.

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GothOtaku
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Quote: " nice thread, but how about some links."

OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
GCC - http://directory.fsf.org/devel/compilers/gcc.html
DJGPP (GCC for DOS)- http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
OpenWatcom - http://openwatcom.org/
Mozilla/Firefox - http://www.mozilla.org/
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
GIMP - http://gimp.org/
Dev-C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
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Qwisats Haderach
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some1 should make this a sticky. O and what do you guys think about browsers. My personal favorite is:

Opera - http://www.opera.com/


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BatVink
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Thanks Goth.

I'm not being lazy, it's just that there is a lot of stuff here and it's easy for peeps to post a link as they post their recommendations.

My all time favourite is KeyNote. You can store all your project notes, ideas, thoughts, contacts etc in one application. Multiple tabs, unlimited tree structure.

I keep my keynote file on my USB pen disk, it goes everywhere with me.

http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html



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the_winch
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XVI32 freeware hex editor.

Programmers Notepad Open source text editor.

Quote: "this is not a quote"
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Peter H
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Quote: "The Gimp all the way"

I've downloaded this and tryed to use it but i can't do much with it...any good beginner tutorials that you know of? (not ones were half of it is installing ...or the "grokking the gimp" which is ok for reference but doesn't tell you how to do stuff)

"We make the worst games in the universe."

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bitJericho
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Quote: "grokking the gimp"


Haha opensource authors are the best^_^ Grokking the gimp, that's priceless...


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BearCDPOLD
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Again....firefox owns...

But here's the link to Audacity.

Games?
Mudcraft - http://commtechlab.msu.edu/humans/tye/mudcraft/play.html

My favorite text editor, Crimson Editor
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

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Benjamin
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Hey, that text editor looks pretty good


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BearCDPOLD
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I love it. I use it mainly for Torque, because I have VC 6 for a C++ ide. I found it and tried it, then a week later my community college teacher mentioned he used it for java.

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Jeku
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Wow! Great editor! I was using HTML-Kit (which is also free), but the interface was kinda weird. This Crimson Editor matches is like a free version of Ultra-Edit--- niiiiice. Gotta love FTP Save


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Qwisats Haderach
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FreePOPs - www.freepops.org


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