Mentioned list (up to 13-May-2009 14:00)

7-zip - file compression
Aptana - web dev. IDE
Asterisk - telecommunications/VOIP
Azureus - torrent downloader
Blender - CAD/modeling (e.g., Maya, 3DS Max replacement)
Cacti - networking management
Chrome - browser
Code::Blocks - programming IDE
FileZilla - FTP
Firefox - browser
floAt's Mobile Agent - bluetooth mobile phone management, remote control
Foxit PDF reader
GIMP - image editing
GnuCash - double-entry accounting
Growl - application logger/monitor
Handbrake - video format conversion
hMailServer - SMTP/IMAP/POP3 mail server
ImageMagick - image editing (command-line)
Inkscape - scalable vector editor
Launchy - program quick launcher
Linux/*BSD
MySQL - database
Nagios - network administration/management
Notepad++
OpenOffice
Paint.NET - image editing
PasswordSafe
PathSync - syncronisation/backup tool
PDF Split and Merge
PDFCreator
PHP - scripting language
Pidgin - IM chat
PuTTY - ssh, telnet, tunneling application
Snort - intrusion detection
Spambayes - spam filter
Squirrel Mai - webmaill
TCPDump - packet sniffer, intrusion management
TrueCrypt - file encryption
VirtualBox - virtualisation software, virtual machines
VLC - media player
WireShark - network analyser
XBMC - media center software

hMailServer, Squirrel Mail and XBMC I guess.

Don't use a lot of OSS.

Foxit PDF reader; Handbrake.

is 7zip open source? if so, that. or path synch.

vlc

Handbrake

Very cool!

Notepad++ for me.

Foxit PDF reader; Handbrake.

Foxit isn't, afaik, open source

Spambayes ; awesome open source spam filterer.

I was going to say Firefox, though I could list a billion things. I've also just started using Launchy which I LOVE and don't know how I lived without it for the last billion years.

gah, i had to use the gimp yesterday (to rotate a decomped image, gimp can do it, corel can not)

i just about had a brain aneurysm dealing with the gui

but no doubt about it, gimp has the goods under the hood

PuTTY FileZilla

Asterisk!

I've also just started using Launchy which I LOVE and don't know how I lived without it for the last billion years.

Does Launchy index outlook too?

Would love to stop a few people at work using google desktop!

I was going to say Firefox, though I could list a billion things. I've also just started using Launchy which I LOVE and don't know how I lived without it for the last billion years.

I use this functionality in the Vista start menu. At work I hate that I have XP and don't have this available, so nice find!

gah, i had to use the gimp yesterday ... i just about had a brain aneurysm dealing with the gui

The GUI is friggin' terrible. I wish they would stop using their multi-window system is correct UI design. It's not. It's hideous, user-unfriendly and wrong. But it's awesome in every other way.

Asterisk, Nagios, MySQL, Cacti .. the list could go on.

Firefox
PasswordSafe
PDFCreator
Filezilla
Notepad++
VLC
Linux/*BSD
Open Office

my big ones are already mentioned: notepad++, vlc, launchy (on my XP machines)

Paint.NET
FileZilla
Handbrake
Firefox

php - it has paid for my house and car

GIMP is open source right?

Has nobody ever taken the code and rebuilt it with a proper UI? Surely it would be an immediate winnar?

i just about had a brain aneurysm dealing with the gui

Don't get me started...

Isn't the GIMP UI the same as Photoshop on Mac (multiple windows)?

I do agree that the interface for GIMP is bad though. Alt Tabbing and having the toolbox and layers windows show up is very very annoying.

Edit:

I use this functionality in the Vista start menu. At work I hate that I have XP and don't have this available, so nice find!

I've found the vista start menu to be extremely slow. Probably some indexing tweaks I have to make?

Has nobody ever taken the code and rebuilt it with a proper UI? Surely it would be an immediate winnar?

Yes, someone did and it was popular, but it was never kept up to date from day one - they obviously became bored with it.

I've found the vista start menu to be extremely slow. Probably some indexing tweaks I have to make?

I didn't tweak anything. Only time it's slow for me is when Windows has just started up. Maybe it's trying to index your g4y pr0n or something? Could take a while there. *zing* I'll be here all week, try the lamb.

Utorrent

oh hang on i don't think that's open source.

last edited by infi at 13:36:23 13/May/09

I'm gonna go with Chrome and Azureus, honorable mentions go to HandBrake, VirtualBox, VLC, and FileZilla.

Yes, someone did and it was popular, but it was never kept up to date from day one

I wasn't too impressed with GIMPshop to be honest. Still had a dodgy UI, more of a hack that I don't believe really achieved what they claimed?

I ended up just buying Photoshop (student ed.) just to have >8-bit/channel support. Fairly important if you are applying multiple consecutive image processing algorithms and don't want to degrade the data too much.

TCPDump
Snort
WireShark
Firefox and its addons/plugins
Pidgin

possibly Growl?

For Firefox users who listed FileZilla, check out FireFTP (addon). Supports TLS, SFTP, etc, and also has a 'view' function so you can quickly check website updates via HTTP. I used to use FileZilla but I'm a convert.

GIMP
FireFox
Puttty
KGB Archiver
7-zip good for 7-zip files but kgb is better for other compression formats doesn't take as long as 7zip in decompression

filezilla interface sucks balls not neat enough like firefox (note to try fireftp)
openoffice

LyX - Basically a word processor front to LaTeX. Bit temperamental but a much nicer experience than writing pure LaTeX code. Bit of work in setting up a template but after allows you to concentrate on what's important - what you're writing not how it's formatted.
MiKTeX - Used by LyX to output LaTeX code to PDF (or whatever).
JabRef - GUI front for editing BibTeX bibliography database files.
Dia - Similar to Visio I guess. Can make some kick-ass diagrams with it.

They've been invaluable for writing my thesis

edit: added descriptions

last edited by Matt at 18:32:02 13/May/09

Hehe, s*** Matt. I'm an engineer, but I submitted a paper for an applied mathematics conference once and it had to be done in LaTeX.

Never again...

filezilla interface sucks balls not neat enough like firefox (note to try fireftp)

Warning these are all misguided thoughts - I've been there, and I just went back to FileZilla.

OMG why did nobody tell me about 'handbrake', and how come it never comes up on google when I look for such software?

You guys should write what the software does next to it's names.

You guys should write what the software does next to it's names.

yeah.

You guys should write what the software does next to it's names.

yeah.

Delivered.

Somebody should make mention of Mediaportal for all your media center needs!

Written in .NET and forked from XBMC I do believe. I use it at home and it's brilliant. Quite an active support community too

Notepad++ for me.

I tried this as an alternative to ultraedit and it just doesn't cut the mustard. It crashes all over the place and can't handle larger files that ultraedit has no problems with, all be it a tad slow to open.

My favourite piece of open source software is probably the Tomato firmware running on my router.

filezilla interface sucks balls not neat enough like firefox (note to try fireftp)

Not neat enough? How is it not neat enough? Looks fine to me: Huge Screenshot of my filezilla.

The new filezilla toolbar icons are a bit non-memorable - that would be my only interface complaint, but if you switch to a simpler FTP program you will start to miss a lot of features.

7-zip can suck my balls until they fix the temp directory issue. (If they have, I apologise.)

ruby - programming/scripting language
rails - web application framework
git - version control
+ a bajillion other small projects, most on github.com

mac apps:
Quicksilver - quicklauncher etc
Sequel Pro - mysql manager
Tranmission - bittorrent client
GitX - git gui
Adium - IM

stuff i dont see but are clearly awesome:
webkit
darwin
+ all the other stuff os x is based on

Trac
Subversion

for project wikis, ticket system and source code repository.

topic needs to be typopwned.

topic needs to be typopwned.

Why?

I hope to sweet f----- C----- you're not talking about my compound noun, because if you are, you are about to be in a world of literary pain.

f----- C-----

wtf does that mean

I ninja-censored myself for religious sensitivity in hindsight.

Asterisk+FreePBX ( or Trixbox CE )
Zabbix ( network monitoring, like nagios )
LAMP ( obviously )
CentOS 5.3 for server
OpenBSD ( for out-in-the-wild servers )
Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 for desktop
OpenSolaris+ZFS for kickarse home NAS
Postfix+MySQL+Courier IMAP+SpamAsassin for great mail server
Zimbra ( open source almost-exchange replacement )
RoundCube ( AJAX web mail client )
RT ( RequestTicket, helpdesk )
Wordpress ( blog )
Drupal ( CMS )
WinDirStat ( visual directory size browsing )
SAMBA ( windows fileshare for *mix )
DHCPd + Bind + DynDNS ( no need to manage dns on home network )
Putty ( is it open source? who cares it s free and awesome )
Amanda/Zmanda ( open source backup )
CutePDF ( PDF printer )
WINE ( Wine Is Not an Emulator )
PERL/ActiveState PERL ( script my bitch up! )
Jabber ( opensource IM client and XMPP protocol )

PERL/ActiveState PERL ( script my bitch up! )

respect stinky

I ninja-censored myself for religious sensitivity in hindsight.

That's a first on QGL.

I ninja-censored myself for religious sensitivity in hindsight.

I whole-heartedly approve this action. Good man.

For those who use GIMP on Windows but hate the UI, definitely check out Paint.NET. It's quite powerful and has a decent interface (and it's improving all the time - frequent updates). The only time I use GIMP is when I need to create icon files.

Pidgin - Multi Messenger Client -(formerly GAIM). For the love of god i wish MSN would implement tabbed windows.. with 2 MSN accounts a google talk account and occasional IRC channels, having them all tabbed instead of 20 MSN chat windows..

Firefox.

WINE - Wine is not an Emulator. I know that sounds weird, but being able to play and use all my windows stuff without a VM running is neat.. although the alternative is to just use windows..

GIMP - That photoshop wanna be. It's fine for what I do, and I hear if you facepalm your way through learning it its nearly good. Mostly all i ever do is use the blur tool anyway. oh and a few weird brushes. I wouldn't call it s favorite, just its free and available.

OO.o - Open office.org (MS OFFICE opensource) but i don't like it's excel version. Mostly i cant easily tab, i cant press CTRL+D to get the cell above copied below and a bunch of trivial but common things that differ. There might be a way to change its settings, I'm just not going to look..

VLC - video lan client, plays all media. Every year that goes by i hate VLC just a little more..

Thanks to this thread I've found launchy which i'll play with now, its like at work i can do the things i do on vista at home :D

Why?

I hope to sweet f----- C----- you're not talking about my compound noun, because if you are, you are about to be in a world of literary pain.

My Favourite open-source applications are...

Why?

I hope to sweet f----- C----- you're not talking about my compound noun, because if you are, you are about to be in a world of literary pain.

My Favourite open-source applications are...

Why the capital 'F'?

Thread should be typwned.

/end

Does Open Arena count? :D

pornfinder/pornhunter/pornseeker/pornsearcher and my favourite.............pornhacker

i dont even know what open source is but i actually read this whole thread

so im gonna say winamp

^ software where you can obtain the source code free of charge

whats source code

(serious)

is it the actual code of the program? like u could open up the 'source code' into a 'source code reading program' and edit the program how u like?

whats so good about getting a source code

is it the actual code of the program? like u could open up the 'source code' into a 'source code reading program' and edit the program how u like?

Yep, that's basically exactly what it is

whats so good about getting a source code

In addition to editing it and changing it how you like (subject to licensing restrictions), there's advantages in that you know there's no secret backdoor things that are going to steal your moneyzz

Source code is like the blueprints of software.

If you have the source code to a program, yes you can change it and make it do something different. Source code is typically fed as input into a compiler that produces the machine code that can be run (like in a .exe file)

Most source code is just a bunch of text files so you could open in notepad if you felt like it, but there are better programs out there that are specifically designed for editing code.

In addition to editing it and changing it how you like (subject to licensing restrictions), there's advantages in that you know there's no secret backdoor things that are going to steal your moneyzz

I search all source code for "back door" before using it. So far, everything's been clean. *PHEW*

you're making the same mistake trog did until I showed him a couple of tricks, like searching for "b4ckd00r" and other variations. one of the ones we found actually used a combination of a capital O and a zero eg: "backdO0r"

Lolz jim, great joke m8 great joke!

thank u trogdor, u are my source code savior

bed time

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

dunno if anyone has mentioned this yet, but mumble is a pretty rad open source communication proggy like vent/teamspeak. it claims to provide much better sound quality at lower latencies than the other 2, and in my experience it definately does. it's targeted at gamers, and a heap of the tf2 clans we play with have picked it up so far.

Lolz jim, great joke m8 great joke!

thank u trogdor, u are my source code savior

bed time

actually the other thing that I should have said, which is possibly more important than anything else:

Open source applications can never be taken away from you, or discontinued, or made incompatible with your data.

This is really important because MS do this consistently with their product lines - it's often called "vendor lock-in" and it refers to the fact that you are locked in to buying their products, because it's the only way you can keep using your old s***.

my favourite thing about open source software is community improvement; a whole lot of people get passionate about helping to make something better... means a lot of the time, cool stuff and stuff that really matters gets done.

here's a busy part of a github timeline for

MaNGOS is a free, Open Source implementation of a game server compatible with the original World of Warcraft client

https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/148219/github-network-mangos.png

look at them go! 572 people have forked the codebase. i have no idea if it's a good project or not, but the point is if some change/feature really matters to someone, they can actually go in and do it, and share that change with everyone else.

<3 open source.

As an example I was setting up a linux firewall to count and enforce quota levels in my house since the housemates are stupid and cap us all. The documentation for doing so said:

if you want to limit put a quota of 50Megs on incoming http data you can do as follows :

# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m quota --quota 52428800 -j ACCEPT
# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP

Since it was a recentish patch and not frequently known/used, it only had brief documentation - it said nothing about the largest quota value you can set - something fairly important when it's counting in bytes and you wish to set gigabytes worth of quota. Downloaded the source code, opened up libxt_quota.c, had a quick look:

static int parse_quota(const char *s, u_int64_t * quota) ...

uint64? sweet, that's big enough. Went ahead and used this feature and it's working well. Housemates are suddenly responsible with their quota since they are now able to get individually shaped :)

parabol, you sound like a hoot to live with...

On the other hand, I feel your pain. Being shaped is a pain in the arse.

parabol, you sound like a hoot to live with...

I was talking to a guy at work who lives with an IT Security bloke who doesn't let them use wireless, every client has a static IP and they have cables running all over the house in case they want to use their PC in the lounge room, bed room, dining room, etc. Now that is a hoot to live with.

parabol, you sound like a hoot to live with...

nah i'm fair.

A housemate blew 30GB of our total quota in a single day (3x his monthly allowance), got us capped at 6kB/s for almost two weeks - not so great when 5 people have to share it. Problem was they STILL continued torrenting and letting Steam/XBox updates run. I'm sure many others have had similar experiences.

When they act like kids, you treat them like kids :)

last edited by parabol at 13:30:18 22/May/09

I was talking to a guy at work who lives with an IT Security bloke who doesn't let them use wireless, every client has a static IP and they have cables running all over the house in case they want to use their PC in the lounge room, bed room, dining room, etc. Now that is a hoot to live with.

he obviously just cared about network performance

A housemate blew 30GB of our total quota in a single day (3x his monthly allowance), got us capped at 6kB/s for almost two weeks - not so great when 5 people have to share it. Problem was they STILL continued torrenting and letting Steam/XBox updates run. I'm sure many others have had similar experiences.

When they act like kids, you treat them like kids :)

ipfw add deny tcp from (his.lane.ip) out via (your.ethernet.interface)

problem solvered, if you go over your cap - you get the boot
had a very similar problem in share housing,'net was in my name and I run ISP servers/routers for a living so I had a fair idea how to neuter their connection once they'd use their data allocation

call me a c***, but I got sick to f***ing death of never being able to use my own 'net

windows 7

ipfw add deny tcp from (his.lane.ip) out via (your.ethernet.interface)

problem solvered, if you go over your cap - you get the boot

Doesn't really solve the problem at all. Your ISP can cap your entire connection before you realise your housemate has downloaded that 30GB - something very possible on ADSL2+ and especially with lagging ISP usage meters. Which if you paid attention is what happened to me :)

The scripts I wrote assign each person separate peak/offpeak quota at the start of the month. If they go over, iptables detects it straight away and starts shaping their list of LAN IPs for that peak/offpeak time-frame - other housemates are unaffected. No need for any usage data from the ISP, completely automated in-house. Housemates aren't tech-savvy enough to circumvent the measures, so the hackwork is safe for now.

This is a bit off-topic so I might just leave it there.

Someone should make an app that can configurably shape based on usage in the last couple hours. Kind of like when you 'sprint' in computer games and then you become s*** slow for a while.