Free Software Thread

[zeus]

Just found this.... I know there is one for ext2 above but I use ext3.
Access ext3 from windows.

Access to Ext2/Ext3 from Windows XP

[zxivate]

TightVNC: VNC-Based Free Remote Control Solution for remote access
Orb for video streaming
Apple (I'm sure everyone knows this one though)
FileZilla - The free FTP solution for a ftp server
https://secure.logmein.com/products/...pn.asp?lang=en for a VPN client
Alienware: High-Performance Systems - Notebooks, Desktop PCs, Workstations, Peripherals and look for the desktop themes
Goto PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives | Your Digital Life, Anywhereâ„¢ for portable versions of software
VideoLAN - Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS! a media player that will play almost any format

[Sniper]

nabber.org - Appupdater

Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.

[Sniper]

Xinorbis - Main

Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard disk analyser. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk (or directory). It makes it easy to see the contents, structure and file distribution and file composition of a whole hard disk, directory, or mapped network drive. Includes full report creation.

[Sniper]

HFS ~ HTTP File Server

You can use HFS (HTTP File Server) to send and receive files. It's different from classic file sharing because it uses web technology to be more compatible with today's Internet.
It also differs from classic web servers because
it's very easy to use and runs "right out-of-the box".
Access your remote files, over the network.
It has been successfully tested with Wine under Linux.

[DaRuSsIaMaN]

Fresh Diagnose

A very neat diagnostics program that delivers not only analysis of hardware, but also interesting software analysis, and even benchmarking all in one package. And it looks pretty. It's like PC Wizard, Everest home edition, and other such diagnostic software, but with more features. (However, I'm not sure if the benchmarking is very good. But even it's not, it's still very nice in the other aspects.)

[Dave35k]

Cain and abel free from OXID

Allows network admins to carry out numerous security checks on their network and its free!

[Anti-Trend]

VirtualBox



"innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "innotek" for more about our company.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. "

Note that Linux users can install VirtualBox and easily keep it up to date by using their repository:

deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian gutsy non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian feisty non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian edgy non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian dapper non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian etch non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian sarge non-free
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian xandros4.0-xn non-free

Just add the single line from the list above which best matches your distro to /etc/apt/sources.list (Debian users, the "Etch" repo will work fine on Lenny).

Next, add the crypto key so your downloads can be verified automatically with apt-secure:

wget -q http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Finally, install it with your package manager (as root):

aptitude install virtualbox

[DaRuSsIaMaN]

Does anyone know of a free software that is better than MS Paint but not all complex? Something that is easy?