In this episode we will be talkingabout installing Windows XP on an “average” users system AND installingas many Free and/or open source applications as you can. The goal here is to create a ‘free’ system that gives the user a maximal amount of productivity WITHOUT having to resort to illegal copies, cracks or hacks to get things done. The point of this podcast is to show people that their are plenty of alternatives to commonly known (expensive) applications. If you know where to look you can have a ‘free’ Xp installation where the only money you hand over , is the one for your XP licence. All the rest .. is free.
Shownotes
- Intro: Why this episode.
- Free Vs Free and Open Source Software.
- Why pirating is uncool.
- Three levels of Geekyness.
- Different versions of Windows ( OEM / Retail / Volume License)
- Using Nlite to slipstream your installation : http://www.nliteos.com/
- Partitioning to harddrive.
- Post Install tasks.
- The essentials
- Avg Antivirus : http://free.avg.com/
- Clam AV. http://www.clamav.net/
- Google Pack. http://pack.google.com/intl/nl/pack_installer.html
- Msn Live Pack. http://home.live.com/
- Adobe Air. http://www.adobe.com/products/air/everyone/
- Openoffice. http://www.openoffice.org/
- Dia. http://dia-installer.de/index_en.html
- The Gimp. http://www.gimp.org/
- Xnview. http://www.xnview.com/
- Marcrium Free. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp
- EzBackitup. http://www.rdcomp.net/ezbackitup/
- CdBurnerXp. http://cdburnerxp.se/
- Deepburner. http://www.deepburner.com/
- Pidgin. http://www.pidgin.im/
- Skype. http://www.skype.com
- Foxitreader. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
- CutePdf. http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
- Pdfsam. http://www.pdfsam.org/
- VLC. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- Audacity. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Vuze. http://www.vuze.com/app
- Itunes. http://www.itunes.com
- Itunes store. http://www.apple.com/itunes/whatson/
- Bittornado. http://www.bittornado.com/
- Legaltorrents. http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/
- Miro. http://www.getmiro.com/download/
- Cloud Computing.
- Google Documents
- Gmail.
- Xmarks. http://www.xmarks.com/
- Getdropbox. http://www.getdropbox.com
- Open Source alternatives. http://www.osalt.com/
- From the twitterverse.
- Update Checker.
- cc Cleaner.
- Virtualwin.
- Revo Uninstaller.
- Imgburn.
- Notepad ++.
- pain.net.
- Fences.
- Cygwin.
- LastFm.
- Putty.
- Thanx to Jaymartinez and Dbist on Twitter.
- Arems Blog. http://artemervits.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-most-frequently-used-apps-at-home.html