Freeware alternatives to commercial software

[Killerah]

I recommend AVG as well, works great for me.

 

[Talaeryn]

A friend of mine was needing an alternative to Frontpage as we work a joint website together and I remembered this thread. I saw several suggestions for NVU but no website so here it is.

http://www.nvu.com/

Any chance of making this thread a sticky?

 

[theapoc]

Any chance of making this thread a sticky?

This was asked and addressed already in the topic. Here.

 

[Tek7 (Legacy)]

Sunbird can help replace Outlook's calendar function. Sunbird, Thunderbird and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite offer freeware alternatives to Microsoft Office.

All software listed is available for both Windows and Linux.

 

[cor.deacon]

OK...what about illustrator?

Gimp looks great as a Photoshop alternative....Blender and POV-Ray look great...but look like overkill as an Illustrator replacement...or is my experience with Illustrator too limited to realize the Blender and POV-Ray are where I should be looking?

And another one.....what about presentation graphics, i.e. Powerpoint? I would love to find an opensource replacement for the church that would free us up from the need to buy multiple Office Pro lisences just so we can have PPT...

 

[Kidan]

OK...what about illustrator?

InkScape is the replacement for Illustrator.

http://www.inkscape.org/

And another one.....what about presentation graphics, i.e. Powerpoint? I would love to find an opensource replacement for the church that would free us up from the need to buy multiple Office Pro lisences just so we can have PPT...

OpenOffice has Impress as a replacement for PowerPoint http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html