Just a guy, living in the now, enjoying experimenting and using the various free and open-source alternatives available. My primary machine is a dual-boot Xubuntu 11.10/Kubuntu 11.10. I also have a dual-boot laptop with Xubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 and a secondary desktop with Lubuntu 11.10/Windows XP.
Elveos is a crowdfunding website dedicated to free software.
Waterfox is basically a 64-bit version of Firefox. The Firefox source code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-bit Windows computers. To make Waterfox stand out a bit more, it’s compiled with optimizations s ...
0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civili ...
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorb ...
UMPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many na ...
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will g ...
LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL. It is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably ...
Create Background Slideshow (CreBS) is a Python/GTK application used to create and set desktop background slideshows for GNOME, and by extension the Linux distributions that use it, such as Fedora and Ubuntu. The image ...
The Ubuntu Software Centre gives you instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications. And now you can buy apps from some of the leading providers too. All our software is easy to find and install so you ...
Punny Name, Serious Distro! Fuduntu is optimized for portable computers, but also runs great on desktops too. Tweaked and tuned for exceptional performance, low resource utilization, and maximum battery life. Fuduntu i ...
Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for prod ...
LibreOffice Calc is the spreadsheet program you've always needed. A fork of OpenOffice.org Calc, professional data miners and number crunchers will appreciate its comprehensive range of advanced functions.Advanced Da ...
lubuntu is a faster, more lightweight and energy saving variant of Ubuntu using LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.
A minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and the Enlightenment desktop environment.
Y PPA Manager is a GUI tool to add, remove, purge, list and search for Launchpad PPAs. It works with Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
PortableLinuxApps provides portable applications for Linux that you can carry around and use on every Linux computer running one of the supported major distributions. Just Download, Make Executable, and Run! These Apps h ...
Math is the LibreOffice suite's formula editor, that can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, to enable you to insert perfectly-formatted mathematical and scientific formulas. ...
Base is a full-featured desktop database front end, designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users, for all kinds of usages, such as keeping track of collections of objects,maintaining customer information database ...
Writer has all the features you need from a modern, full-featured word processing or desktop publishing tool.It's simple enough for a quick memo, but powerful enough to create complete books with contents, diagrams, ...
Impress is a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia presentations. Does linear or non-linear presentations with the included Presenter Console extension. Your presentations can be enhanced with 2D and 3 ...
Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux ...
Hiren's BootCD (HBCD) is a completely free bootable CD that contains a load of useful tools you can make use of in a variety of situations like analyzing, recovering and fixing your computer even if the primary opera ...
Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.All available ebooks were previously published by bona ...
Glippy is a simple clipboard manager for GNOME. It's written in Mono and supports: - storing text from keyboard and mouse clipboards - synchronizing clipboards - storing images from clipboard and file manager (whe ...
A GTK+2 interface to MPlayer. The power of MPlayer combined with a friendly interface for your desktop; You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc.), organize, sort and create playlis ...
