Who wants Free Open Source Software for Windows?

Free? Can not any good then! Not so!

The quality, availability and bandwidth of the free open-source software for Windows is great and rivals, if not reform, some mainstream software.

So, what kind of applications are available?

Almost everything you can imagine. I do not intend to include all that the available sites, because it would take and you can easily think a Google search in your browser, but to go through the long list list to be prepared.

A good place to start is for Windows www. opensource windows. org. This page does not list anything but lists the most popular.

So let’s take a look at some of those.

One of the most popular is Open Office. What is a large, fully-equipped suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheet. compatible and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. It also supports the OpenDocument format and has something that other office suites do not have the option of submitting documents to PDF format rotate.

Best of all, can be downloaded Open Office and used completely free of license fees. OpenOffice is released under the LGPL license. This means you can use it for any purpose – private, commercial, education, public administration. You can download it on as many PCs as you want to install. You may make copies and give them away to family, friends, students, employees – anyone you like.

OK, we have saved about $ 500.

Let’s see what else to offer. There are browsers, e-mail clients, FTP clients, media players, personal finance, and on and on and on.

One of my favorites and one that I very much use Gimp. Full name, GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is much more than a mere manipulation program, however. Gimp is in fact a rival to Photoshop and use it to enhance graphics creation, image editing, special effects, drawing, the list goes on for almost every graphics operation you can think of.

A big plus is the ability to Gimp, Photoshop PSD files open with the layer information to enable you to edit the PSD’s completely free

I for the first time in Gimp on the rare occasions that I happened on a Linux system, and assumed it was only the Linux version of Windows Paint accessory. Boy, I was wrong!

While it is fairly easy to start is with the Open Office suite Gimp a whole new learning curve. It is after all a pretty specialized program. Fortunately, the Internet is full of tutorials, to varying extent and quality, the various aspects of working with Gimp.

Unfortunately, because there are so many it can take hours if not days of separating the wheat from the chaff and really get to know what you want to get started. Many of them are just text and screenshots that are not always as simple as video, where you can actually see, follow what happens.

As a frequent user of Gimp, I shared a series of 12 video tutorials will always have contact with Gimp. While some of them on setting up a sales page, the majority are intended to cover the essentials of working with Gimp aimed to get off to a flying start. In addition to basic techniques are covered advanced techniques, such as creating reflections and shadows.

We now just have saved us at least $ 700.

While there are many other open source applications out there, I will freely reviewed here stop and cover more of them in other articles, so keep an eye on them.

It really is worth checking the open-source software available. Apart from special software, you can almost certainly you will find all the applications you’ll ever need for free will.

God bless those programmers who give their time and talents to create this wonderful free applications.