Essential Free Software
Here’s my essential free list when setting up a new environment. I’ve omitted the essential non-free ones like MS Word, Outlook et c.
5 Stars (Desktop) – Software I use regularly
- Adobe Acrobat Reader Enterprise Version
- Apple iTunes
- Cygwin
- Vim
- Curl
- PDFCreator
- ActiveState Python
- Microsoft SQL Server Express
- Microsoft SQL Server Express Books Online
- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
- Microsoft SSEUtil.exe
- Microsoft Dot Net 2.0 Runtime, SDK
- .Net Reflector
- VNC
5 Stars – Web
4 Stars – Software I use occassionally
- VMWare Server
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- SpaceMonger
- PC Inspector File Recovery
- CVS
- sitecopy
- SysInternals ProcessExplorer
- OSR Virtual CD
3 Stars – Software for Experimentation
- SmallTalk
- LispBox
- clisp
- Chez Scheme
- NetBeans
- Eclipse
- PHP
- Watcom Fortran – a bit better than GNU Fortran the last time I looked
2 Stars – Important software, but not often required
- darcs
- Netcat
- MSYS
- Microsoft Services for Unix
- Alex Moffat’s Sequence Diagram Generator
1 Star – Fun stuff
- TweakUI
- Paint.Net
- ArtRage