'30 Essential Free Pieces of Software'

[LHX]

Dont sleep yall

put these tools to use

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/...e-for-windows/

What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.

[Sicka than aidZ]

yo i need something free that will allow me to extract zip filez that i've downloaded on my mac so i can open entire albumz and listen to them

[Visionz]

macs come with software that allows you to do that^ You runnin OSX?

[LHX]

winrar

find it at download.com

[recluse]

Good lookin out on that LHX. I already use Firefox and Thunderbird, but I am definatetly going to check out those other Microsoft alternatives.

[Visionz]

yes cheers to LHX, now if we could only download the alternative to Wal-Mart

[LHX]

i heard they were gonna knock down the pyramids and build a big walmart in egypt

true story

[Prolifical ENG]

thats a good list!

[LHX]

has anybody tried an OS other than Windows?

[Prolifical ENG]

^^^^

well Ive tried nothing that LOOKS better than windows, but Unix and DOS do have their advantages....but for a home/personal computer, I dont know...I guess there might be some or attempts to make some.

[maestro wooz]

i got a mac. Pretty good, can't play any games so that sucks but apparently they made something to fix that so expect to see me on cs source in upcoming months. It's a pretty nice machine, looks sleek and the guy from Waiting keeps telling me about all this photo editing stuff i can supposedly do. Plus it's alot harder to get any kind of viruses or spyware so that helps. But as far as illegally downloading programs, you're basically cut off.

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nice

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Im downloading this game from that list right now.....



30. True Combat: Elite
http://www.truecombatelite.net/
Replaces Quake IV, Halo, etc.
After all this downloading, you’re going to need to blow off a little steam, and I’ve yet to find a more enjoyable free game than this one. It’s basically a third person combat game, but the graphics are spectacular and the game is quite engrossing.

[Slippy The Pimp]

has anybody tried an OS other than Windows?

I have. It was a requirement for my survey of OS's class. Basically the whole class was based on comparing operating systems.- What do you need to know?

[LHX]

do any other OS's compare?

or does Windows blow away the competition?