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AlphaLexman
October 6th, 2009, 01:13 PM
I dual boot to Ubuntu and Ms Win XP. However I still use quite a lot of open source software for windows.

I think that promoting OSS to native apple or windows users makes the transition to linux easier.

Dual booters, what OSS do you use?

I have the following:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Open Office
Gimp
Inkscape
Audacity
VLC
Stellarium

bryncoles
October 6th, 2009, 02:34 PM
I agree with you on the importance of native OSS applications. They were my 'gateway drug' when I was starting to look at switching from windows.

I don't dual boot any more (I bought a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed from Dell, when they still sold them in my country), but when I did I used a combination of freeware and OSS.

The bog hitters were (disappointingly) obvious; Firefox and Open Office. Their obvious quality convinced me OSS was up to the job however, and when Windows needed reinstalling (due to some software installation issues), I had no qualms, no retreat and no surrender!

HomoGleek
October 6th, 2009, 02:41 PM
Not sure if these are OSS or just freeware but I liked too use

WinAmp (Miss it :()
Opera
userbar generator
audicity
Pixie (Linux alternative?)

pricetech
October 6th, 2009, 03:20 PM
While I"m not certain these are all OSS:
Open Office
Firefox
SeaMonkey
Gimp (occasionally)
Pidgin (again, occasionally)
Foxit PDF reader
Audacity
Opera
Irfanview (not cross platform)
Tight VNC
Putty
InfraRecorder
JEdit
NX from nomachine dot com
Filezilla
Arachnophilia (rarely since I haven't tinkered with web pages in eons)
7Zip

I'm probably forgetting something.

NoaHall
October 6th, 2009, 05:14 PM
Opera isn't open source.

I used Open Office back when it was buggy and slow.

pricetech
October 6th, 2009, 08:18 PM
Opera isn't open source.

I used Open Office back when it was buggy and slow.

True but Opera is cross platform and is free.

I too have been using Open Office for a long time. I don't recall what the earliest version was, but I do remember using Star Office before it.

Some of the listed software is indeed not Open Source, but all of it is free and almost all of it is cross platform.

Chronon
October 6th, 2009, 09:12 PM
I used:

GIMP
OOo
Firefox
VLC
PDFCreator
7-zip
PuTTY
notepad++
JkDefrag