This is a list of free tools/software. I'm sure there are lots more out there, so feel free to add to this list!
Operating Systems
Red Hat Linux
http://www.redhat.com/
Mandrake Linux
http://www.mandrake.com/
Software
Must have tools
Adobe Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
Office
Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/
DVD tools
DVD decrypter
http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
DVD shrink
http://www.dvdshrink.org/
Dvd2avi
http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/
Nero burning rom
http://www.nero.com
Burn4Free -
http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce -
http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP -
http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO -
http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend -
http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner -
http://www.deepburner.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD -
http://www.paehl.de/cdr
FTP tools
AceFTP
http://freeware.aceftp.com/
P2P tools
Azureus Bit Torrent Client
http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/
Media players
Real Player Alternative
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...lternative.htm
Quick Time player
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Internet Browsers
MyIE2
http://www.myie2.com/
Mozilla
http://www.mozilla.org
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Math Graphing Tool
Graphmatica
http://www8.pair.com/ksoft/
Firewalls/Anti Virus
Zone Alarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/
AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/
Avast -
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG -
http://www.grisoft.com/
Benchmark tools
3d mark 2001 / 3dmark 2003
http://www.futuremark.com/
Aquamark
http://www.aquamark3.com/
Sandra
http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/
Games
America’s Army
http://www.americasarmy.com/
Runescape MMORPG
http://www.runescape.com
Tweak tools
tweakUI
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp
memtest
http://www.memtest86.com/
Emulators
Mac emulator Basilisk II
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html
Playstation Emulator Epsxe
http://www.epsxe.com/
Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX 2
http://www.pcsx2.net/
Gamecube Emulator Dolwin
http://dolwin.emulation64.com/
Xbox emulator cxbox
http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/news.htm
MAME
http://www.mame.net/
3D Graphics:
Anim8or -
http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender -
http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax -
http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. -
http://www.alias.com/eng/products-se...le/index.shtml
Now3D -
http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP -
http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware -
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K -
http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy -
http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster -
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard -
http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
IRC Clients:
BersIRC -
http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX -
http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC -
http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC -
http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat -
http://www.xchat.org/
Audio Players:
1by1 -
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 -
http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes -
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic -
http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik -
http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player -
http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique -
http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp -
http://www.winamp.com/
Audio Tools:
Audacity -
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex -
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter -
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC -
http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 -
http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder -
http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 -
http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer -
http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper -
http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag -
http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut -
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain -
http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim -
http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz -
http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares -
http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free -
http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner -
http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather -
http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/
Compression / Decompression:
7-zip -
http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 -
http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip -
http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc -
http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip -
http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip -
http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP -
http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX -
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go -
http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius -
http://www.zipgenius.it/
Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw -
http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS -
http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp
Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP -
http://www.stardock.com/products/cur.../download.html
MobyDock -
http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 -
http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm
Download managers:
Fresh Download -
http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet -
http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport -
http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader -
http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget -
http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget -
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt -
http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS-
http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser -
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder -
http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG -
http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware -
http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner -
http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm
File Managers:
2xExplorer -
http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 -
http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
Gyula's Navigator -
http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer -
http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander -
http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/
File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery -
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) -
http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) -
http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) -
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall -
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...eeDownload.jsp
FTP Clients:
Filezilla! -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP -
http://www.smartftp.com/
FTP Servers:
FileZilla -
http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD -
http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/de...plication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server -
http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd -
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD -
http://www.jgaa.com/
HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 -
http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML -
http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia -
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit -
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida -
http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE -
http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder -
http://www.tsware.net/
Image viewers:
Ahaview -
http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview -
http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView -
http://www.slowview.at/
XNView -
http://www.xnview.com/
Instant Messenger:
Gaim -
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM -
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox -
http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI -
http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic -
http://trillian.cc/downloads
Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser -
http://www.avantbrowser.com/
MyIE2 -
http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser -
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Mail programs:
i.Scribe -
http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail -
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail -
http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird -
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Anti-spam programs:
K9 -
http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher-
http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile -
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes -
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility -
http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer -
http://www.ethereal.com/
NMap -
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop -
http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter -
http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY -
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats -
http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread...&threadid=2400
RealVNC -
http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC -
http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC -
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP -
http://www.winscp.com/
Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition -
http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord -
http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office -
http://www.openoffice.org/
Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer -
http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager -
http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk -
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
Continued........
-Chris
PDF Utilities:
Free PDF -
http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView -
http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 -
http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic -
http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Pixia -
http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Sodiodi -
http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp -
http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint -
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Programming:
ActivePerl -
http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Dev C++ -
http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal -
http://www.bloodshed.net/
Eclipse -
http://www.eclipse.org/
Freepascal -
http://www.freepascal.org/
jEdit -
http://www.jedit.org/
PHP Hypertext Parser -
http://www.php.net/
Python -
http://www.python.org/
Ruby -
http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop -
http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/
Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar -
http://www.google.com/
NoAds -
http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper -
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy -
http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron -
http://www.proxomitron.info/
System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 -
http://www.aida32.hu/
CPU-Z -
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Gkrellm -
http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor -
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
WCPUID -
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html
Video codes :
DivX Codec -
http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab...rom_/index.php
FFDSHOW -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack -
http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack -
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative -
http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative -
http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Video players :
BsPlayer -
http://www.bsplayer.org/
Cygwin MPlayer -
http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
MaximusDVD -
http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic -
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303
VideoLan -
http://www.videolan.org/
Video tools:
DVD Shrink -
http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler -
http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG -
http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot -
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub -
http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod -
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=65889
xviD -
http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor -
http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html
Web browsers:
Firebird -
http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
K-Meleon -
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla -
http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape -
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
Web servers:
Abyss -
http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache -
http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar -
http://www.sambar.com/
Savant -
http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb -
http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html
Webcam Software:
booruWebCam -
http://www.booru.net/
Pryme -
http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/
Checksum Utilities:
fsum -
http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv -
http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum -
http://www.etree.org/md5com.html
md5summer -
http://www.md5summer.org/
General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX -
http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket -
http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia -
http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Cygwin -
http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey -
http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite -
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Inno Setup -
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 -
http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap -
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime -
http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer -
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian -
http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV -
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico -
http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies -
http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals -
http://www.sysinternals.com/
Teamviewer -
http://www.teamviewer.com/index.aspx - Desktop Sharing & Remote Control (Free for non-commercial, personal use)
Vim -
http://vim.sourceforge.net
http://sketchup.google.com/product_suf.html
"Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp (free) is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you."
-Chris