Shane Baptista
Computing Consultant Center for Teaching Excellence
Open Source Software that I use regularly
The GIMP - The Gnu
Image Manipulation Program to be compared with Adobe Photoshop or
PaintShop Pro
Inkscape
- Scalable Vector Graphics Drawing program to be compared with Adobe
Illustrator or Macromedia (Macrodobia) Fireworks
OpenOffice
- Office Suite with Wordprocessor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, and
Drawing, and Database to be compared with Microsoft Office or
WordPerfect/Corel Suite
Audacity -
Audio edting and compression tool to be compared with Adobe Auditions
NVU - HTML Authoring
tool to be compared with Front Page and Macrodobia Dreamweaver
7-Zip - File
Compression Utility to be compared with Winzip
Python - Programming
Language - to be compared with...well Perl but Perl is also open
source...
Blender
- 3d Modeling, Compositing, Video Editing, Game Engine to be compared
with Maya but only within the modelling this is really a distinctive
tool.
Scribus
- Desktop Publishing to be compared with Adobe PageMaker or Quark.
Please note this program is not currently available for
Windows
so you need to follow these
directions
for installing Cygwin (linux virtual environment) and compiling Scribus
for use within Cygwin. This is more technically demanding
than
any of the other programs on this list.
Jahshaka - Video
Compositing tool to be compared with Adobe After Effects
Clam AntiVirus -
AntiVirus Software to be compared with Norton AntiVirus or McAffee
Anti-Virus
Slashdot.org
Not an Open Source site as such but touches on a lot of Open Source
Issues "News for Nerds Stuff That Matters" It is a daily read
for
me and has been a way that I've found new software on occasion.
Do
a web search with the functionality that you want and the word Open
Source
