open source

[pinbrook]

Following on from Gabe's post about ClickHeat which seems to be a good piece of Open source Software, I thought I'd ask what other pieces of Open Source others use.

By co-incidence I downloaded and played about with the GIMP yesterday and pretty awesome it is too, forget paying £400 for Photoshop.

I also regularly use

Filezilla
Notepad++
7Zip
Firefox
Thunderbird

I also have Open Office on my 2nd PC, and have KompoZer downloaded but not yet evaluated it properly.

KompoZer looks interesting since I no longer bother to try to integrate Actinic with DW but prefer to hand code instead.

What else to you guys use? is there a good open source css editor?

[acompton]

I can add a second vote for FileZilla.
If you are a developer, SVN is an excellent open-source version control system that beats the pants off the leading brands.

[gabrielcrowe]

for me there is really no commercial software i use other than Actinic.

As an advocate of the open source movement, I cant bring myself to use microsft office, nor can i use msn messenger, or other daft closed cource junk, especially when there are other thigns vailable.

pinbrook is bang on with the gimp, its an amazing piece of kit. for those instant messenger peoples out there, try pidgin

[gabrielcrowe]

What else to you guys use? is there a good open source css editor?

Its not open source, but it is free, try notepad++

[pinbrook]

I really really want to move to a linux PC - maybe my next PC will see me brave enough

keep the laptop windows though

[pinbrook]

i use notepadd++ for other stuff - its best feature in line numbers that notepad doesn't have.

i just like to have a css editor that autofills, i can never remember the order for padding, margins etc, ie I'm crap at syntax

[gabrielcrowe]

one word: ubuntu

[Darren B]

Hmmm most of those i already use, filezilla is great, i dont now would you clase the FF plugins as open source software, well open source plugins i guess, if so webdeveloper and firebug.

Hmm what else i have used a few over time, open office is good, and there is oxygen office which is open office super dooper version or something like that

ponders what else there is

D

[Darren B]

Ooooh one for Gabe

XBMC

D

[gabrielcrowe]

xbmc is really only for xbox freaks like me, but there is a definate effort to get it to compile under linux.

and a microsoft media center killer, its going to be.

[pinbrook]

one word: ubuntu

been trying to get ubuntu on my old dell lattitude, but it won't play ball. I think its the Dell that is causing the problem as it comes up with disk errors.

Shame as it might have found a new life for the Dell rather than the rubbish tip.

[Duncan Rounding]

Ubuntu runs well inside VMWare. If you have VMWare you could try that. Otherwise the standalone CD bootable version is good to play around with.

[NormanRouxel]

Don't forget the Apache / Perl / WarFTPd triumvirate that many of us are running in order to test sites locally. They're the unsung heros here.

PS I've been playing with an Asus Eee PC; a tiny sub-sub-notebook with a solid state disk. Only costs £219 (inc VAT). Entirely open-source machine. Xandros Linux / Firefox / Thunderbird / OpenOffice, etc. Tiny and tough; it ends up going everywhere.

[gabrielcrowe]

actually norm, want to give a quick review on that, i'm thinking of getting a few.

pros/cons/issues?

[pinbrook]

Asus Eee PC

I want one of those...