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[Spiked_Phate]

Then Get Mozilla Thunderbird

I switched to Firefox over phaseout and ie a few weeks ago, and when on their site downloading firefox, i cam across Thunderbird. For any who havnt heard of it, its just an email client, pretty much the Mozilla replacment of outlook express (grr), same as firefox and ie.

So for any interested in a bit of a change (its hardly any different in the controll layout, so its easy to use) i fully recomend Thunderbird.
check it out at: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Happy emailing

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[anti]

To counter the other threads about open source versions of software I'm just going to make this one.. post up links to open source software you love (also perhaps what it's a substitute for )

Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (internet browser)
Mozilla Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ (email .. like eudora and outlook express, but better!)
vim / gVim http://www.vim.org/ (brilliant code editor)

 

[jm1234567890]

apart from

www.openoffice.org (similar to Ms Office)
www.gimp.org (similar to photoshop)

there aren't many other major ones

look in http://sourceforge.net for most of them

filezilla, http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ (pretty good ftp prgram)

and you can't forget emule, lol

 

[Adrian.]

Debian - A Linux distro.

Fluxbox - Excellent light-weight Window Manager.

LyX - A GUI for LaTeX, a document processor.

Azureus - Java BitTorrent client.

X-Chat - IRC client.

 

[neuro_logik]

BSD/Linux Distros: http://distrowatch.com/

VoIP: www.skype.com/ (Voice over Internet Protocol not open source though), other info: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-print.php?page=Open+Source+VOIP+Software

PBX (Private Branch Exchange): http://www.asterisk.org/

FreeBSD: www.freebsd.org (BSD OS)

OpenBSD: www.openbsd.org (BSD OS)

GAIM: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ (AIM/MSN Messenger)

NMap: http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ (Port Scanner)

Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/ (Exploit Development/ Testing platform)

Nessus: http://www.nessus.org/ (Penetration testing)

GCC: gcc.gnu.org (GNU Compiler Collection, C, C++, Java, etc Compiler)

OpenSSH: http://www.openssh.org/ (Secure Shell)

IPCop: www.ipcop.org (Linux Firewall)

 

[jm1234567890]

skype is open source?

i thought it was made by the makers of kazaa

 

[neuro_logik]

skype is open source?

i thought it was made by the makers of kazaa

well, its not open, but it is free but it sux u cant make phone calls to actual phones, I use stanaphone to make pranks to payphones in the US, lol

 

[Adrian.]

well, its not open, but it is free

This is an open source thread, not a freeware thread. I think you should only post OS stuff.

 

[neuro_logik]

This is an open source thread, not a freeware thread. I think you should only post OS stuff.

I did also post an URL to Open Source VoIP Stuff

 

[fatmuscle]

ooooh,
what VoIP stuff do u have?

 

[neuro_logik]

Audacity: audacity.sourceforge.net (Audio recording/editing)

 

[Immolate]

www.redhat.com - Linux distro
www.openoffice.org - Similar to Microsoft Office
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - Web browser

 

[poloktim]

http://amsn.sf.net <---- MSN Messanger clone.

 

[anti]

http://amsn.sf.net <---- MSN Messanger clone.

Not sure if someone posted this before, but I use gaim for msn as well.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

 

[McLake]

kolourpaint: http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/

 

[MedNez]

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Recently released under the GNU GPL, as opposed to previously only offering an executable, not the source code.

 

[Master Gopher]

http://amarok.kde.org/ very nice OS music player, many skins available from http://kde-look.org

http://www.songbirdnest.com/ - in their own words "a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux..."
I haven't DL'd it yet, but friends who have tell me it is excellent - all the best features of Winamp and iTunes + more, without any of the annoyances.