Open Source Software - Free-Open Windows Software question

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Free-Open Windows Software question

obaqueiro@gmail.com

2005-02-07, 4:05 pm

I am in the process of replacing all the software in my Windows machine
with alternative Free-Open software, so far, I have replaced MS Office
with OOo, Photoshop with The Gimp, Borland JBuilder with Eclipse, and
so forth some other small applications, but I am looking for
replacements for this software:

- Alcohol 120% (or Nero) [To burn CD's, I dont needto burn DVDs]
- Media Player (and/or, windvd, etc) [To play all kind Including DVD's,
is VLC MP an option?)
- SmartDraw [ To make software design diagrams, uml, and other things]
- WinEdt [To edit/compile easly Latex documents. Lyx is not an
option!!]
- SoundForge [Edit audio files]
- Partition Magic [I guess, there's no Open Source replacement for this
one...]
- Antivirus [Has anyone thought in a Free Open Source AV program? it
could be interesting =O)]

So, I think they are all, the only constraint I have is that they must
be Opensource and Free (as in freedom & Beer).

Oh yeah! and of course they MUST be for Microsoft Windows, and no, I
wont change the OS for Linux.

Any recommendations?

Cheers.
Omar

Santiago Copano

2005-02-07, 4:05 pm

Armando

2005-02-07, 9:02 pm

<obaqueiro@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:1107782781.082910.39630@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>I am in the process of replacing all the software in my Windows machine
> with alternative Free-Open software, so far, I have replaced MS Office
> with OOo, Photoshop with The Gimp, Borland JBuilder with Eclipse, and
> so forth some other small applications, but I am looking for
> replacements for this software:
>
> - Alcohol 120% (or Nero) [To burn CD's, I dont needto burn DVDs]

Have a look here http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#cdwriting but don't expect
great things for burning. Commercial software in the only choice for Windows
if you don't like hard to use difficult tools.

> - Media Player (and/or, windvd, etc) [To play all kind Including DVD's,
> is VLC MP an option?)
Yes.
http://www.videolan.org/
or Media player classic
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

> - SmartDraw [ To make software design diagrams, uml, and other things]
I don't know

> - WinEdt [To edit/compile easly Latex documents. Lyx is not an
> option!!]
TeXnicCenter
http://www.toolscenter.org/

> - SoundForge [Edit audio files]
Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

> - Partition Magic [I guess, there's no Open Source replacement for this
> one...]
Qtparted http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/ avaliable on many linux live
distributions (nothing to install on your hd):
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ (Full version)
http://www.knoppix.org/
http://www.sysresccd.org/
http://knopils.linux.it/

> - Antivirus [Has anyone thought in a Free Open Source AV program? it
> could be interesting =O)]
Nothing with autoprotect yet.
Clam Antivirus
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#security

> Any recommendations?
This site is the best to search opensource softwares
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/. First look there and if you don't find what
you're searching or for suggestion or technical help ask in this newsgroup.

Hi!

deimos

2005-02-10, 8:58 pm

obaqueiro@gmail.com wrote:
> I am in the process of replacing all the software in my Windows machine
> with alternative Free-Open software, so far, I have replaced MS Office
> with OOo, Photoshop with The Gimp, Borland JBuilder with Eclipse, and
> so forth some other small applications, but I am looking for
> replacements for this software:
>
> - Alcohol 120% (or Nero) [To burn CD's, I dont needto burn DVDs]

cdrecord has many frontends you might like.

> - Media Player (and/or, windvd, etc) [To play all kind Including DVD's,
> is VLC MP an option?)

VLC is very good, especially for VCD's or DVD's, however Media Player
Classic is OSS and on Sourceforge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/).

I also recommend FFDShow to replace all your playback codecs, and XVid
(www.koepi.org) for for encoding.

> - SmartDraw [ To make software design diagrams, uml, and other things]

Dia or SodiPodi. Can't remember the URL, just google it. They're on
the "OpenCD" project too.

> - WinEdt [To edit/compile easly Latex documents. Lyx is not an
> option!!]
> - SoundForge [Edit audio files]

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net)

> - Partition Magic [I guess, there's no Open Source replacement for this
> one...]

Was Ranish ever OSS? Not sure. I don't know of many non-destructive
partitioners with a GUI. The built in Disk Manager of XP can do it, but
you have to move all your data first.

> - Antivirus [Has anyone thought in a Free Open Source AV program? it
> could be interesting =O)]

ClamWinAV
AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com, not OSS AFAIK, but free and very good).

> So, I think they are all, the only constraint I have is that they must
> be Opensource and Free (as in freedom & Beer).
>
> Oh yeah! and of course they MUST be for Microsoft Windows, and no, I
> wont change the OS for Linux.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Cheers.
> Omar
>

Just Google anything I didn't provide a URL for. They're fairly well
known. The only progam I haven't been able to replace is AutoCAD (QCad
is a POS if you're a professional and Blender has no geometric accuracy
whatsoever or concept of solids, only good for rendering) and XXXXXXXXXX.

Maybe someday, someone will make a great program out of BRLCAD's solid
modeling, but this is mostly an untouched frontier for Free/OSS.

obaqueiro

2005-02-18, 8:58 am

Hey guys, thanks a lot! I think the answer for all my problems is in:
osswin.sf.net
again ,thank you very much!

Armando

2005-02-19, 3:58 pm

"deimos" <deimos@localhost.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:37200hF56phekU1@individual.net...
> obaqueiro@gmail.com wrote:
>
> cdrecord has many frontends you might like.

Have you got a working link for cdrecord?

Thanks.

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