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Re: An all open source or at least free-ware PC?
Also, if you are going to going to be using GIMP, you will be using GTK. And since you would have that installed, why not take advantage of it?
Instant Messaging: I use and like Gaim quite a bit. But if you want something smaller that you can customize more, Miranda IM is supposed to be good. As I understand, it does not even have to be installed to run. You could put it on a stick drive and run it off a USB port if need be. No members have liked this post.
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By compatibility, I mean that I don't know if it can play ogm or m2v or even the more obscure formats. Honestly, though, how often do you deviate from the major video formats? Obviously VLC is updated more often, but MPC can certainly play DVDs and TV show divx files, though I would never do that *cough*Daily Show, South Park*cough*! And it is the only thing I use for Real streams. I don't know about WMA streams.
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GIMP = photoshop sodipodi = illustrator No members have liked this post.
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ImageForge is what i use for image editing.
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Hey RD - found this while looking around at collection cataloging software. It's actually a pretty good site with a decent selection of freeware programs.
www.nonags.com....from the front page go into the free programs section, then select the site closest to your geographical location and then on the left side choose "Software Menu" to see the catagories. I used to go here years back until I settled into my "favorites" and just stopped checking it out much. Still a nice site from what I've seen looking around again.
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I use AVG for antivirus (grisoft.com). It's served me well for a couple years. My gf switched over to it from Norton a ways back and it caught a bunch of stuff Norton missed!
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Sorry to digress, but Ive been wondering this since I downloaded mozilla
I am using mozilla version 1.7.3 as my web browser This is different than firefox right? if so, what are the differences? Secondly, - any freeware versions of a page layout program like adobe page maker or indesign? Thanks
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Firefox is just the browser portion of the Mozilla suite. In fact, I believe it's undergone more development in recent months, and therefore is the definitive Mozilla browsing product. I would recommend making the move to Firefox. Mozilla.org will have quite a few more details about what the specific differences are.
On the second question, I've not come across anything with the list of features that Indesign has. I am sure much of this could be accomplished with Open Office and a few other programs, but I doubt there's anything quite this slick. For professional applications, I don't have a problem with paying for good software, and Abobe really does make good software.
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Free cd audio burning program: http://www.burrrn.net/ It has flac, ape and shn codecs, among others. Never had a problem, burn gapless.
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I have found sygate firewall good, but I think I still prefer ZoneAlarm. I find it easier to explain to regular people.
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I do find it amusing that you of all people openly admit to using an illegal version of Photoshop and would happily download further illegal cracks. Do you not think the software is worth your money? How much does a decent antivirus prog cost anyway? 60 bucks? No members have liked this post.
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As a Linux user (on both a PC and an iBook), here are the tools I use (all Open Source). Most of these have been mentioned before, in this thread but they are worth repeating:
Web browser - Firefox Email client - Thunderbird WAV editing - Audacity IMAGE editing - The Gimp DVD authoring - dvdauthor (dvdauthor.sourceforge.net) DVD burning - cdrecord-prodvd or growisofs CD burning - (I don't any more, but cdrdao or cdrecord do the job) CD ripping - cdparanoia Spreadsheet - gnumeric Database - PostgreSQL Audio Player - XMMS (has SHN/FLAC plugins) Movie player - mplayer Simple video editor (cutting and splicing without re-encoding) - ProjectX Web Server - Apache C Compiler - gcc Almost all of the above are available for Windows - cross-platform availability is one very strong advantage of Open Source. So if you use those tools and are comfortable with them, then a future switch to Linux would be a breeze - you'ld be using exactly the same applications. No members have liked this post.
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