Alternatives to Proprietary Software
- 1. Alternatives to Proprietary Software
- 2. Firefox instead of IE Others Include: Galeon Konqueror Dillo Epiphany Links Chrome
- 3. What Firefox Does Better The Internet The TLUG website and many other websites No ActiveX exploits Truly Free
- 4. OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office Others Include: Koffice Gnome Office
- 5. What OpenOffice Does Better No annoying talking paper clip Uses a truly open format Opens and saves in a lot more formats Free
- 6. The Gimp instead of Photoshop Others Include: CinePaint ImageMagick
- 7. What The Gimp Does Better I've never used Photoshop so I personally don't know if it does anything better. Made all the stuff for the TLUG website Free
- 8. Kompozer instead of Dreamweaver/Frontpage Others Include: Amaya
- 9. What Kompozer Does Better Original(2006-2007) TLUG website created in it Still used to do quick tweaks to the TLUG website Good first step into learning HTML If you want horrible compatibility plagued web pages I don't suggest Kompozer but instead recommend you Frontpage and Dreamweaver Free
- 10. Pidgin instead of AIM/MSN/Yahoo Others Include: Kopete
- 11. What Pidgin Does Better A ton of protocols all in one program that can be used simultaneously No advertisements Truly Free
- 12. Thunderbird instead of Outlook Others Include: Evolution Claws Mail Mutt Balsa Kmail
- 13. What Thunderbird Does Better Better spam filter Less chance of getting a virus Cooler name Free
- 14. Rhythmbox instead of iTunes Others Include: XMMS Amarok Banshee
- 15. What Rhythmbox Does Better Ever heard of that better than all the other lossy formats called ogg that iTunes doesn't support Not an Apple product Truly Free
- 16. K3B instead of Nero/Sonic Others Include: Brasero Arson Gnome Toaster
- 17. What K3B Does Better Hands down the best cd/dvd burning application out there Its just better get over it Free
- 18. VLC instead of Quicktime/Windows Media Player Others Include: Mplayer Xine Totem
- 19. What VLC Does Better Hands down the best media player out there Simple interface but has a ton of features like format conversion Plays every format ever conceived or at least the ones I've come across Truly Free
- 20. Evince instead of Adobe Acrobat Reader Others Include: Kpdf GhostView Xpdf
- 21. What Evince Does Better Nothing really, they are pretty equal in my use Truly Free
- 22. Virtual Box instead of Vmware Others Include: QEMU
- 23. What Virtual Box Does Better You get all the cool features without having to pay for them
- 24. Gdesklets instead of Vista Sidebar Others Include: Screenlets SuperKaramba
- 25. What Gdesklets Does Better You can create your own easily from scratch or you can use the templates provided Runs on an infinitely better operating system Free
- 26. Firestarter instead of Norton Personal Firewall Others Include: IPTables MoBlock
- 27. What Firestarter Does Better Linux Firewall>all windows firewalls for actually protecting you Free
- 28. RecordMyDesktop instead of Fraps Others Include: Istanbul
- 29. What RecordMyDesktop Does Better Can record wobbly windows, enough said Truly Free
- 30. Cinelerra instead of Final Cut Pro Others Include: LiVes Kino Avidemux
- 31. What Cinelerra Does Better You get all the same features except it cost you no money
- 32. Why Have This
- 33. When You Can Have This
- 34. What Linux Does Better Everything Free
- 36. Questions?