Freeware Applications

Software Category
DescriptionWin32 FreewareLinux
(W.I.P. - thanks Mike)
Win32 non-free
Office - Document Editors/Viewers/Printers
Robust Notepad Crimson Editor 3.72 r241 GEdit  
Office Suite (Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation) OpenOffice 3.0.1 OpenOfficeMS Office
Corel WordPerfect
PDF Printer Driver/Creator PDFCreator 0.9.7Built In (CUPS)Adobe Acrobat Distiller
Hex File Editor HexEditor 2.0ghex 
Educational
Bible Reader E-Sword 8.0.6GnomeSword - GNOME
BibleTime - KDE
 
Genealogy Charts Misbach
MyTrees
  
Astronomy Stellarium (portable)  
Internet
FTP Client FileZillagFTPWS_FTP
CuteFTp
FTP Server FileZilla ServU, Bulletproof
Download Manager Free Download Manager 2.5  
Binary News Reader NewsGrabber 3.01 (NOT 3.1.1)Pan - GNOME
klibido
 
Dynamic DNS Service No-IP No-IP 
Local Proxy Server/Filter Proxomitron 4.5 JunDansGuardian - Filter
Squid - Web Proxy
 
Telnet/SSH Client Putty  
Mail Client Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 ThunderbirdMS Outlook / Eudora
Software based Firewall Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15AFirestarterNorton Internet Security
Multi Service Chat Client
(Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, IRC)
Pidgin 2.5.5 Pidgin 
Remote Desktop Access RealVNC 4.1.3 or TightVNC 1.39 RealVNC
Vino - VNC Server
 
Local POP3 Server for Yahoo! FreePOPs 0.2.9 for many Webmail systems
Yahoo!Pops 0.9.5.14 for Yahoo! Mail
  
Web Server Apache HTTPD - Apache Group Apache HTTPDMS IIS
Multimedia
Image Viewer and Organizer XnView 1.96.0 XnView
fspot
ACDSee
Image Editor GIMP 2.6.6 GIMPPaint Shop Pro / Photoshop
Panoramic Tool Hugin 0.7.0 News HuginPixmaker
Web Album Generator JAlbum 7.4 (not 8) JAlbum 
Icon Editor IcoFX 1.6.3  
MultiTrack WAV Editor/Mixer Audacity 1.3.7 Beta AudacityAdobe Audition
Cockos Reapper
CD Ripper -> MP3 Encoder AudioGrabber 1.83 (old)Sound-Juicer 
MP3 Codec LAME 3.98.2
LAME beta binaries
 Fraunhauffer
MP3 Editor mp3DirectCut 2.10  
Audio/Video Player WinAMP 5.55.1 Windows Media Player
Font Viewer/Archiver AMP Font Viewer 3.86  
MPEG Video Editor Virtualdub 1.8.6pititv
avidemux;
 
DVD Video Extraction DVDShrink 3.2.0.15  
Video Player VLC Media Player 0.9.8a VLC Media Player
totem
 
MPEG/AVI Video Editor TMPGEnc 2.524  
System Utilities
Anti-Virus Scanner Avira AntiVirNecessary?Norton/Mcafee Antivirus
Spyware/Ad/Trojan/UglyStuff Removal tool Ad-Aware  
System and Registry Cleaner CCleaner
EasyCleaner 2.0.6.380
 Norton System Works
Duplicate Finders CloneSpy 2.3  
Amazing Useful Freeware Process Explorer 11.33 Task Manager
Comprehensive Set of System Tools Ultimate Boot CD for Win 3.22 SystemRescueCD 
MS Windows Customizers nLite 1.4.9.1 XPLite and 2000Lite 1.9
Multiple Desktop Manager VirtuaWin 4.0.1Built InMS Power Toys
Disk Utilities
Applications on the Go (USB Stick/CD) PortableApps.com (use geek.menu)  
Disk Encryption TrueCrypt 6.1a  
CD/DVD Recording InfraRecorder .46
CDBurnerXP 4.2.1
nautilus-cd-burner
serpentine
gnome-baker
NERO Burning Rom
CD/DVD Virtualization MagicDisc 2.5.074FUSE - Filesystem in USErspace
AVFS - A Virtual File System
 
ISO Creator LC ISO Creator   
Partition Manager GParted 0.4.0 GParted
Parition Logic
Partition Magic
Drive and Partition Imager DriveImage XML 2.02 Norton Ghost
File Recovery/Un-Erase Avira Unerase  
Compression Utilies
Multi format Compression Utility iZarc 2 Go 3.81
7-Zip 4.65
Peazip
File RollerWinZip
WinRAR
WinACE
Very Small Zip Utility 100kZipper 1.25  
File Raid, Parity Utility Quick Par 0.9.1parchive/GPar2
PyPar2
 

Suggested Software Distribution Sites
NoNags - They claim "The Original & Best. Genuine Freeware Site - Since 1995"
Freeware World Team - International Freeware Database
Mozilla Project - Mozilla Browser, Firefox Browser, Thunderbird E-mail Client
Apache Group - Apache HTTPD, Jakarta, Struts, Ant and much more
SourceForge.net - world's largest Open Source software development website
The OpenCD - CD size collection of great Open Source software
GNU Win II - a free software compilation for Windows SnapFiles - both Freeware and Shareware
Aldo's Tools
Software Depo - Image Viewer, Video Editing, Icon Editor, DVD Burner, Freeware?

Linux (...see Tux run)
Linux.org - list of Distributions
FreeByte - List of Current Operating System choices
Debian - very stable Linux distribution, a foundation for many other distros
Ubuntu 8.10 - Free, no costly enterprise edition, just Good free supported Linux
Puppy 4.1.1 - very compact (Less than 60MB) live-REBURNABLE configurable linux
Knoppix STD 0.1 - security tools distro, useful Live network and recovery tools

Emulators, VMs, and OS distros other than Windows
VMWare Player 2.5 - The player is freely distributed and an extremely stable program
ReactOS 0.3.7 - aims for complete binary compatibility of Windows NT and XP...
CoLinux 0.7.1 - move while still capturing video in Windows
PearPC 0.4.0 - PowerPC Architecture Emulator (and I like it)

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