Software Directory Review

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 13/03/2010 - 7:04am

We've added a few software titles to the Software Directory recently, but this is not by any means, a final or definative list.

Are there applications that you are using that we've missed?

Are there applications that you would like to see, but don't know if they exist with Open Source licences?

Many of the tools that we have listed are Windows based. Are there FOSS tools that you use that are Linux or Mac only?

Most important of all, which tools are really, really good to use in a school setting and which are just "ok".

Please comment on them

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Submitted by DrC on Sat, 13/03/2010 - 3:45pm.

Not open source, but free and a useful tool for learning about image quality, compression and and file sizes. - irfanview.

Submitted by ictstbenedicts on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 1:57pm.

Opensource alternative to Google Apps is Feng Office www.fengoffice.com/web/products.php
formerly known as OpenGoo ostatic.com/blog/opengoo-an-open-source-answer-to-google-apps
Powerful cross platform editor Bluefish bluefish.openoffice.nl/
Cross platform Video / Audio Player - VideoLan (VLC) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Video Transcoder - Handbrake (cross platform) handbrake.fr/

The above are what I personally use (except Feng Office). There is a catagorised Wiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open_source_software_packages detaiing open source/ free software.

Hope this is helpful.

Submitted by dwillmot20 on Tue, 16/03/2010 - 9:25pm.

just a supplementary question, are there packages in the software directory that are highly recomended or perhaps less so?

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