Following is a list of the opensource apps I use and the windows application that they replace.
| OSS Application | Replaces | Remarks |
| The GIMP | Adobe PhotoShop | Feature rich image editor. Takes time to get the hang of all the little techniques but is very powerful. |
| Scribus | Microsoft Publisher | Has a barcode generator under the extra’s menu. Generates PDF forms and can prepare professional printer ready documents for publication |
| OpenOffice | Microsoft Office | Hmm – I’m sort of diappointed by OpenOffice. It needs to be less resource hungry. The database app Base crashes regularly. Writer has trouble with lists and bullet points become a struggle to get right. |
| Inkscape | SVG Graphical Editor with some really cool font stretch, align, rotate features | |
| Dia | Visio | Has complete set of Cisco Network/Computer Widgets, easy to use. Falls down badly when printing in Windows. You need to play with all the print settings to get it printing correctly. |
| Planner | Microsoft Project | Only recently ported to Windows. I haven’t used this much but it looks well laid out. |
| Ethereal | Network analyser sniffer | |
| NVU | Lightweight wysiwyg html editor. Development has stalled and bugs tend to hobble this application | |
| Amaya | This is a new one for me some interesting views are possible | |
| Bluefish | This is a html source editor. I like it in Linux so I compiled it under cygwin and use it to edit my companies webpages. The wysiwyg editors tend to put a lot of guff into a page. I use css and just plain html so this web editor means you edit the items attributes that you really need and not the addendums of a wysiwyg editor | |
| PuTTY | ssh/telnet terminal program |
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