The Best of Windows Open Source Software?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday September 25, 2002 @02:38PM from the not-just-for-penguins-anymore dept.

Boiotos asks: "I'm cooking up a CD-ROM image of excellent Win32 Open Source software to give to friends and family who are intrigued by the whole OSS movement but don't know where to start. I figure once they're used to Mozilla and AbiWord under WinXP, a Linux partition would be less daunting. So fellow Slashdotters, how about it: what Win32 OSS projects deserve a place on the 650 Mb of Solid Gold? Remember, this is for non-geeks and families, so Cygwin is out (even though I love it) and games are in. Extra points, as always, to the obscure but beautiful. Finally, projects targeting only Win32 -- with no Free Unix crossover -- may apply, but will be subject to a strenuous physical test."

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CDex by legend · 2002-09-25 14:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Free CD Ripper/MP3 Encoder

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

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The Gimp! by dilute · 2002-09-25 14:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

How about a really superb graphics program?
Re:CDex by p_trinli · 2002-09-25 22:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

Or converting their CDs to OGG.