Going OpenSource on Windows 7
I have now made the final push to go opensource on all my windows 7 applications. Although I would say the overall project has been a success there are one or two areas of failure.
Here is a list of tasks and software I use to complete them.
- Web Browsing – FireFox
- Email – ThunderBird
- Office – OpenOffice
- FTP – FileZilla
- DVD Backup – HandBrake
- Development Work – Eclipse PDT
- HTML Editor – Kompozer
- Graphics Editor – Gimp
- PDF Viewer – Sumatra PDF
- WAMP Stack – Zend Server CE
- Notes – Wiki on a Stick (Woas)
- Blog – WordPress (both local and internet)
- Archive Manager – 7Zip
- Xmind – Idea Mapping Software
Failures
Where I don’t use Open Source
- iTunes – I buy a lot of my TV shows from iTunes.
- AnyDVD – It removes copy protection from DVD’s to allow me to back them up to my Media Center
- RegExpBuddy – I have not found an open source regular expression program as good as this.
- And of Course Windows 7.
As soon as I can use iTunes and can backup my DVD’s under Linux I will be moving across. I will probably move to a dual boot system once I have done the bulk of my DVD’s. RegExpBuddy works under wine on linux so that is not an issue.
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