- Great Web browser
- Great e-mail client
- Great free Office Package
- Cross-platform Framework for Python/C++
- A web development IDE, looks like Eclipse's. Supports Web scripts such as the basic stuff plus PHP, Ruby on Rails and Ajax.
- DevC++ - C/C++ IDE
- wxDevC++ - Its DevC++ but with wxWidgets From Designer
- Code::Blocks - Very Good C/C++ IDE (until RC3, use the night builds)
- 7zip - Free archive utility, fast and supports many archive formats for Windows (GUI) and Linux (apparently command line).
- Free download manager - An Open Source, Windows download manager that competes well with the commercial app: Download Accelerator Plus.
- Update Checker - Scans your Windows PC and displays the applications that have newer versions on the net.
- Komposer - Frontpage open source clone
- NSIS - Installer creator (for Windows)
- HM NIS - Installer creator GUI (needs NSIS)
- e-Sword - Great Bible study program (for Windows)
- StarDict - Dictionary software. Very useful!
- Doxygen - Documentation generation
- YAReG - Reiser FS partition browser for Windows
- Netbeans - Very good JAVA IDE (for many platforms). Now has more support for other languages, etc. as well.
- Tortoise SVN - A very good Windows Subversion GUI
- log4# - Very good logging system (# being many languages: java, .net, c++, etc.)
- Python - A popular interpreted language
- PyScriptor - A good IDE for Python
- Ruby - A popular scripting language
- Launchy - Open source keystroke launcher for Windows
- Poderosa - Poderosa is a tabbed terminal emulator for Windows.
- Ultra Explorer - A very good Windows Explorer alternative
- Console - A nice Windows Console alternative
Here is a list of software/libraries which I found and would like to use (basically future reference):
- c++ check - c/c++ code checking. Checks for these bugs: memory leaks, mismatching allocation-deallocation, buffer overrun, dangerous usage of 'memset', badly defined overloaded operators. Checks for code improvements: redundant code, rewriting standard function.
- Design Pattern Automation Toolkit - A toolkit to design applications using design patterns, with facility to generate code, and reverse engineering. Drag and Drop facility to create UML Class diagrams Support to write custom plug-ins for code generators and reverse engineering.
- Sharp Develop - Very good alternative to Visual Studio for C#
- Loki - Many OpenSource projects (including the popular Linux installer creator as the one of UT 2004)
Sites of note:
- C# Source - A website dedicated to C# libraries and Frameworks.
- Java(TM) Source - A website dedicated to Java libraries and Frameworks.
