That is a very impressive list. Although, I’m still not sure whether I love or hate Open Office. On the plus side, I use it a lot. Infact, its even open right now. But on the minus, it just feels laggy, fat and sluggish. For me, it’s a very love-hate relationship. Yes, it’s great that its free and I can do nearly anything MS Office can, but it just feels bloated.

I would feel open source users should be more proud of the upcoming KOffice 2.0, which is in beta (and looking very fine). However, it isn’t released yet, and besides, it isn’t anywhere near as popular as OOo is.
More software that springs to mind would be your Netgear router. They are an incredibly popular type of router, and all their software packaged with is released under the GNU GPL.

WHERES PIDGIN!?!

Great list, but I have to nitpick with regards to Open Office, I don’t know what country you’re based in but Microsoft Office is not quite $300. For students and teachers in Australia they are selling Microsoft Office Ultimate for $75 (2 user perpetual license). http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au has more information.

If you’re not a teacher or student, then Home and Student edition (Word, Excel Powerpoint, OneNote 3 user license) retail price is $149 but can be found for a bit less. Only MSO Professional is near $300, and it costs roughly $229, again with a bit of searching around can be had for less. These are AUD prices, and our dollar is currently worth under 70% of the AUD so I’m assuming prices are a bit cheaper in the U.S.A.

Cheers.

Well, nice post idea i must say! Thanks for these _bragging_ tips =P

You forget GIMP, its free, and has more than 70% of Photoshop features.

Also there is Blender (3d design), lot of people compare it to 3D Studio Max, and Maya. And they produced many movies using it.

Nice list, extend it to 10

I didn’t know about Amarok, so I’ll definitly have to check that out!

Good Blog Post. You definitely kept the enthusiasm up there, I read all the way though. It fits the niche of mindless internet bs perfectly, and you chose very bright pictures. I had to laugh at VLC, wow- This OSS is FLASHY, oh wait, you can watch anything on there (hentai porn)

More criticism? Your domain name is nonsensical blog-spammy.

Looking back over this, I don’t understand where the ads are. If you’re trying to post something informative and not just get eyeballs, i’m confused why you’d go in this direction. You’re wasting one talent reaching for something you don’t have?

Good list.

I don’t agree OpenOffice has 95% of the features I need. I believe it has much more features than I’ll ever need. (So does Microsoft Office — so, in fact, you end up paying for features you don’t need.)

On a second thought, though, I think there is only one feature — present in OpenOffice — that should be improved: which is, obviously, Microsoft Office compatibility.

Microsoft’s proprietary office formats are their competitive advantage, and that’s why they keep it moving from version to version.

Hopefully, more and more people will start using open document formats (starting by governments worldwide), so we’ll soon be competing on application merits, not on non-features like proprietary formats.

Other softwares worth mentioning:

Gimp - image editor.

Inkscape - vector drawing program. I’m amazed by its recent evolution.

Miro - Video Player / Video Podcasting

Pidgin - multiprotocol Instant Messenger

Transmission - bittorrent client

Thank you for putting it out there. Open source leads the way in innovation and brilliant ideas. From eye candy application like Compiz to image/video manipulation programs like gimp and blender……we could go on and on. Next it would be cool if you compare two applications side by side, one from the proprietary camp and another from the open source camp. gimp vs photoshop, maya vs blender and so on.Thanks again. Great post.

And don’t forget Pidgin

I’m already bragging.

Hi!
Nice overview. I would have inserted pidgin instead of jabber, since it is open source, multi-platform and supports many more protocols (including XMPP). For the rest, good work!

Awesome, every application here is good!

Couldn’t agree more!

Well done, mate ! This is an interesting article about Open Source Apps. I may be a little biased here cos I am a long-time Linux enthusiast ! (Debian user)

GnuCash - if you’re tired of being jerked around by Intuit for a checking program, GnuCash fits the bill. It’s actually a full-up accounting program so it takes a bit of getting used to, but once you get it, it blows the doors off Quicken.

Gimp, the graphic app everybody loves to hate. The newest version brings it much closer to PhotoShop and meets the needs of most people (ala OpenOffice)

Blender - full up 3D animation studio. Not for the faint of heart but it’s used to make actual movies.

Here is more to “brag about”:
http://hellebaard.nl/en/software.html

add Inkscape

lets see, gimp, blender, inkscape, pidgin, ekiga, openssh, postgresql, {sendmail,postfix,exim}, perl, php, LaTeX, openldap, samba, squid and many, many more

what about GIMP?!

Excellent article and cool resources.

jiff
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I won’t be bragging anything about Firefox until they manage to even get decent Linux integration.

(hello, keeping your own dictionary is annoying as hell when I have to add a word twice - once for all programs, and second just for Firefox)

lol!

Hey,

Great article,

I myself am very proud of inkscape, when I first discovered it I thought it was an underpowered photoshop clone or something. Later I learnt about vector apps and started using it.

I have been amazed by the simplicity and power it had.

And wordpress is just stunning. It is unbelievable how much you can do with it.

Kumail.H.T

how utterly useless - are we supposed to google for them?

You spent all that time to write this piece & couldn’t be arsed to add a few URLs.

Yawn… same list as 1,00 articles on the same subject… Maybe tell us about one’s we haven’t heard about?

PostgreSQL or MySQL

While these database applications would not be something the typical computer user would deploy, just like Apache server, you can’t help but use these databases. If Apache is on 50% of the servers, chances are pretty good the associated webapp is running on of these two open source databases.

Beowulf Clusters

Again, this is not something most people will ever use or even hear about. Its not an “application” in the sense this article describes. Originally developed by NASA as a way of creating “super computers” out of commodity, off-the-shelf computer parts, Beowulf clusters are used the world over in science to study the stars, physics, and cure diseases by searching DNA and protein databases. If you want something to brag about — Bud — THIS is it. With the prevalence of relatively cheap, multi-core CPUs, a super computer is within the budget of any college or university.

The Cray X-MP had a hardware cost of $15 million per gigaflop in 1984. The first Beowulf Cluster brught that hardware per gigaflop down to $30,000 by 1997. As of last year, you can create a cluster using Playstation 3 game consoles running Yellow Dog Linux — and the hardware cost? — about $12.84 per gigflop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS

From http://www.beowulf.org:
*Cluster is a widely-used term meaning independent computers combined into a unified system through software and networking. At the most fundamental level, when two or more computers are used together to solve a problem, it is considered a cluster. Clusters are typically used for High Availability (HA) for greater reliability or High Performance Computing (HPC) to provide greater computational power than a single computer can provide.

Beowulf Clusters are scalable performance clusters based on commodity hardware, on a private system network, with open source software (Linux) infrastructure. The designer can improve performance proportionally with added machines. The commodity hardware can be any of a number of mass-market, stand-alone compute nodes as simple as two networked computers each running Linux and sharing a file system or as complex as 1024 nodes with a high-speed, low-latency network.*

Great list! Sure as hell we are proud of these apps!

But I use Pidgin, Rhythmbox and Joomla (instead of Jabber, Amarok and Wordpress)…

7Zip basically killed winzip too

Good stuff!! My personal favorite is FileZilla.

Your writing skills suck.

<3 Amarok… I’ve found other players out there that can do some of what Amarok can, but nothing has such flexibility for customization…

for web development
RoR

Very poor list. Some good apps are missing.

Hiya i was just wondering if you know the name of the skin in the VLC picture.

Cheers Jack,

PS. VLC is one of the best media playing programs ever, got a piece of media that won’t play in anything else, then VLC will definitely play it.

No worries, just found out its the default skin with the newest version Silly me.

Cheers Jack

Great list - we agree. Thanks. I’d like to suggest also adding GIMP, 7-ZIP and NOTEPAD++.
Terrific open source products.

Actually MS Office is as cheap as 65 Euro for 3 consumer worklplaces in Germany. The price should never be the argument for Free Software.

I like lolcats.

indeed a very accurate list of open source apps. May I also add Thunderbird for email and Scribbus (although a bit immature yet) for DTP, or even LaTeX (for a more scientific DTP)?

I.

mplayer

Two things:

1. In my experience of using both (and I use both every day) OpenOffice is superior to MS Office in just about every way, right down to the fact that ‘Page format’ is under ‘Format’ where it should be, instead of under ‘File’ as it is in MS Office!
2. Where’s the GIMP!?

Wow great apps. I haven’t tried Amarok yet. But I will definitely have to give it a go now.

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You really ought to have blender in this list. if for no other reason than the screenshot of VLC is showing BigBuckBunny a short film made with blender by some of its developers.

You have a poor list, poor written skills, and overall a poor article.

Couldn’t agree more.

I already use 5 of them..Interesting to know about the other 2.

Thanks anyways for the list..Great effort

There’s so much capability that open-source apps offer, its unbelievable.

The point that sells me is the need, or lack of money that needs to be forked out for getting these programs, which is useful considering I’m only young and low on scratch.

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Good list. Thanks. Also suggest adding GIMP, NOTEPAD++ and 7-ZIP.

gimp?

Yeap! Gimp should definitly be on that list! And more, deluge, inkscape, mplayer. All of them could be on that list, and 7-zip too! Texmaker as well.

I think Drupal deserves a place.

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Pidgin is not on the list because Pidgin sucks…

My list would also include:

-Miro
-Jing
-GIMP

and now gOS too =)

and few more I can’t recall.

Java ?

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Good post - even if I had personally choosen slightly differently, or rather listed more than 7…

However I have to comment on what you say about firefox - remembering the beginning of 2000’s I can tell you that tabbed browsing was in fact popularized mostly by Opera & Mozilla (the latter beeing open source and the root of firefox though) before there even existed Mozilla Firefox. Not a big deal though, just thought it worth mentioning

Peace, out…

I have recently started using XBMC as a media center on linux and it is a very complete media center solution. It should definately be on this list… Check it out!

all of those except open office are awesome imo.

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I’m a certified M$ Office Specialist and I think that OO ver3 is simply great. M$ Office 2007 looks cutesy but I can never understand why peeps need such eye candy just to do up a document.

“what makes Linux better than [insert OS here].”

… and what program in your list don’t have a Windows version too? :p

I disagree with Jabber and WordPress. What is there to BRAG about those? I mean, they’re really not THAT special. But as previously mentioned, Blender and GIMP would fit that criteria a lot better.

amsn?

Thank you all for your comments. I just wanted to make one thing clear. I tried to choose applications that were the best out there hands down. Whenever you throw out the Firefox or Wordpress card, you will win. No matter how the other party spins it.This cannot really be said about the Gimp, Pidgin, Blender, Inkscape et al.

This is applicable with all the above apps except for OpenOffice. And I already explained the reasons OOo making the cut

What about Audacity?

i object: wordpress.

to many good (maybe better) alternatives.
it is not coded nicely.

next to wordpress stand wikipedia/wikimedia, well that _IS_ a project im proud of.

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I agree, those are some nice apps, except for the OO.
I’d buy MSO today if they had a linux native version.

And I also agree with the people mentioning other apps - Gimp and Pidgin is what I use a lot personally …

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What about:
GIMP
Blender
Inkscape
SongBird
Wireshark
Octave

??

Exaile is far better than Amarok, It looks better than Amarok and is a native Gnome app.

do you think songbird will be on that list when it’s released?

Hi: Interesting article and shows how far Open Source solutions have come in many ways and illustrates that favourites reflect how each person uses their own computer.

I am interested in a listing - with optional choices for the typical user, the one who, like me bought the box with MS and got used (or trapped) to all the bits and bobs.

What I would like to see is a list of software (with choices) for the soho / small business - encouraging the uptake/use of open source.

Specifically tools they can use ( and familiarise with)in Windows, making it easier move to a new OS.

Many may be obvious for general use.

I am interested in suggestions with alternatives where available for new Open Source users. I will build a machine using the info and make it available for demonstration locally together with costings of the machine etc:

The list of what they need to do was given by people in small business who mostly (all) currently use Win XP.

My own favs - where I have one are in ( )

Browser - (Firefox)
Mail - (T’bird)
WP et al - (Open Office)
Charts - (00)
Media player - (VLC)
Graphics (Gimp)
Fax
Screen capture, crop and edit
HTML/XHTML/XML editor (NVU)
.css editor (NVU)
Calendar/Appointment scheduler
DTP
PDF read (Foxit)
PDF write/edit
Text editor (Notepad++)
Audio player
Project management internal
Project management external
ZIP (7-zip)
Anti virus
Security desktop tools

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
MM

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