[Bradford] 10 free software applications you should try...

[John R Hudson]

Hi all

My top ten in alphabetical order are:
chromium
cron
ImageMagick
Konqueror
locate
LyX
mysql
Okular
OpenOffice
xfig

I attach a spreadsheet with the nominations so far.

John

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On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:49:45 Wayne Hanley wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> For my contribution to the top 10's Linux wise would be.
> 
>    1. Geany
>    2. Gnome-Do
>    3. Google Chrome / Chromium
>    4. Terminator
>    5. Guake
>    6. Elementary
>    7. Acire
>    8. Ground control
>    9. Inkscape
>    10. Mame
> 
> 
> I don't really use Windows these days so some of these might now be defunct
> but when I did I used to use
> 
>    1. foobar2000
>    2. 7zip
>    3. truecrypt
>    4. cygwin
>    5. firefox
>    6. notepad++
>    7. mame
> 
> Not ten I know but that's all I remember I'm afraid it's been a very long
> time since I've used windows for anything other than testing Sorry.
> 
> Cheers
> Wayne
> 
> On 24 July 2010 12:11, Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hiya
> > 
> > here is my top ** lists pretty much the same for winblows and Linux
> > just a couple of change where the program isn't Xsys
> > Linux
> > 
> >    1. Chromium / Chrome http://www.google.co.uk/chrome
> >    2. Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
> >    3. Pidgin http://www.pidgin.im/
> >    4. Gimp http://www.gimp.org/
> >    5. <http://www.gimp.org/>F-spot http://f-spot.org/Main_Page
> >    6. <http://f-spot.org/Main_Page>Tom Boy
> >    http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
> >    7. <http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/>Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
> >    8. <http://www.eclipse.org/>OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/
> >    9. <http://www.openoffice.org/>VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> >    10. <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>Transmission
> >    http://www.transmissionbt.com/
> > 
> > Windows
> > 
> >    1. Chromium / Chrome http://www.google.co.uk/chrome
> >    2. Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
> >    3. Pidgin http://www.pidgin.im/
> >    4. Gimp http://www.gimp.org/windows/
> >    5. Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/home
> >    6. Tom Boy  http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
> >    7. Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=win32
> >    8. OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/
> >    9. VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> >    10. uTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/
> > 
> > On 22 July 2010 09:20, David Carpenter 
<david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>wrote:
> >> The CVS newsletter is asking for an article aloing the lines of:
> >> 
> >> 10 free software/open source applications you should try...
> >> 
> >> We need to come up with a 'top 10' and then I think we have people that
> >> will put the words to that list.
> >> 
> >> Can I suggest it as a topic for the next meeting, but in the meantime,
> >> can you post your suggestions to the list?
> >> 
> >> I think we're probably looking at a ***doze based audience, but maybe we
> >> want to also look at phone apps, and anything else we can think of...
> >> 
> >> John, in particular, and Wayne have been involved in dealing with this
> >> request from CVS so far, so thanks to them.
> >> 
> >> Cheers
> >> David
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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> > 
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