Useful Software for free

Over the years I have collected a lot of free software , open source and freeware which I find very useful for work and play . I will let you explore the difference between the two forms of licensing and will get on with my list .

Audio/Video

Bsplayer
VLCplayer
Virtualdub
FFDshow
Foobar

Editing/Formatting

Abiword A lightweight Bi-directional editor , Open source .
Open Office An excellent office suite for general formatting, presentations, spreadsheets etc etc Can read all formats that MS Office creates. Needs a decent machine to run it though - Open source
Pfe32

Graphics

The Gimp The best graphics editor - Open source
Irfanview Excellent viewer for all image formats

Audio video tools

• Ogg Vorbis


• Musepack [GNU LGPL, BSD]


• Audacity [GNU GPL]


• LAME [GNU LGPL]:


• Official site


• Mp3splt [GNU GPL]


• Mp3 Tag Tools [GNU GPL]


• VirtualDub [GNU GPL]


• VirtualDubmod [GNU GPL]

• MP3Gain [GNU LGPL]


• foobar2000 [Other/proprietary]


• VideoLAN [GNU GPL]


• Media Player Classic [GNU GPL]


• MKVToolnix [GNU GPL]


• QuEnc AVS->MPEG Encoder [GNU GPL]

• ffdshow (DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies) [GNU GPL]


• ffvfw (MPEG-4 Video for Windows codec) [GNU GPL]


• AC3Filter [GNU GPL]


• XviD [GNU GPL]

CAD/Graphics

• BRL-CAD [BSD/GNU (L)GPL]


• PythonCAD [GNU GPL]


• The GIMP [GNU GPL]


• Inkscape [GNU GPL]


• POV-Ray [Other/Proprietary License]


• OpenFX


• Blender [GNU GPL or BL license]


• AutoTrace [GNU GPL]


• CopyRightLeft [GNU GPL]


• Wings 3D [BSD]


• Jahshaka [GNU GPL]


• GRASS GIS [GNU GPL]

Databases

• MySQL [GNU GPL]


• OpenOfficeorg BASE [GNU GPL/LGPL and SISSL]

System Tools

• Explore2fs [GNU GPL]



Compression/ZIP



• 7-Zip [GNU LGPL]


• Zzip [GNU GPL]

Office tools

• OpenOffice.org [GNU GPL/LGPL and SISSL]


• AbiWord [GNU GPL]


• PDFCreator


• PDFTOHTML [GNU GPL]


• OpenAntiVirus

PostScript viewers

• Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview:


• http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/


• http://www.ghostscript.com [GNU GPL]

Text editors

• Vim


• GNU Emacs [GNU GPL]

Web Related -Mail & Internet

• K-Meleon


• Firefox


• Lynx (text based!) [GNU GPL]

• Nvu [MPL/LGPL/GPL]


• Mozilla [NPL/MPL/LGPL/GPL]


• HTML Tidy [W3C license]


• wget [GNU GPL]


• HTTrack [GNU GPL]


• Getleft [GNU GPL]

• Mozilla [NPL/MPL/LGPL/GPL]


• Mozilla Thunderbird


• Evolution

• Mailfilter [GNU GPL]


• Spamihilator [GNU GPL]


• SpamBayes [Python Software Foundation]

Servers:

• FileZilla server


• XMail


• Apache