Comments on: Essential Free Software?

By: digitaldarryl

digitaldarryl — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:52:27 +0000

Go on, you know want to…
http://www.freebsd.org
and don’t forget to stop by /ports to find all kinds of ported freebies.
http://www.netbsd.org
for those who think MD5 has seen its best days gone by. Or if there are a few too many black helicopters circling overhead.
And there’s even
http://www.opensource.apple.com
if you are feeling like spending way too much quality time with the new pet and away from the PS2. I mean #1GF.
Break the ties at the root. Windows has to go.
And the only time I can recall “finalizing” a machine involved a double bitter axe.
Guess which OS it was running.
-d—

By: Vivian

Vivian — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:10:12 +0000

I use Thunderbird for all my personal email – it’s great cuz I can set up my various aliases and email accounts to funnel in. There’s probably lots of ways to do that, but then I’m fairly retarded – so there you go. I’ll be interested in seeing what others find essential.

By: n0ia

n0ia — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:25:11 +0000

putty (if you use ssh), pan (newsreader), gaim for instant messaging (i know you have trillian up there), fsraid for those parity files off the newsgroups, dosbox for all your dos emulation needs, cerberus ftp server if you need one... i guess thats it. hope your comments allow html ;P

By: yo non-geeky sistah

yo non-geeky sistah — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:09:02 +0000

i just started using thunderbird at work b/c i hate eudora. if i had to ask my computer “what the fuck?” (sorry mom) one more time i was going to freak. so my open-source software friend recommended thunderbird. apparently you can customize it to do whatever you want. i just don’t want it to freeze and so far it hasn’t. it’s still full of spam, but supposedly there are filters for that. what the heck are all those other programs. i can’t wait to read about what you choose. gooooooooo non-microsoft!!