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It’s free. Get away from your Internet Explorer 7 and MS Office Suite. There is nothing for you to loose.
You even gain something by involving yourself in the projects to the community by testing and submitting bugs to the development teams.
I have been using both - FF and OO - from their 1.x version donkey years back, and never regretted that I migrated. I think you should do the same also.
Yes. I know, I should have put it “… in Linux”, but still, there are so many of us out there stuck with OEM copy of Windows that comes with the notebook/PC that we bought.
I think it is good, once in a while to expose Windows user on what Open Source Software could offer them on alternative software to the proprietary ones for daily computer usage.
The list is actually endless, but I will just highlight the 10 softwares that I use with Windows.
Open Office.org - a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database in a complete package. I have been using it as a replacement for my pirated version on MS Office 2003.
N|vu / Kompozer - the best WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML generator. I use it to create websites during my early days of webmastering, before I shifted into blogging. Still a nice piece of software to use (although still a bit buggy), as compared to my Macromedia Dreamweaver (of course, pirated version).
7zip - the award winning file archiver and compressor. The one I used to replace WinZip and WinRar.
Mozilla Firefox - the most powerful web browser. The best thing about Firefox is the availability of the plugins, especially the one that increase my productivity of being a webmaster/blogger. However, it starts a bit slow…
GIMP - ah… my Adobe Photoshop replacement. It can even use Photoshop’s third party plugins also!
VLC media player - the all rounder media player, that can play almost ALL media format. A small but very powerful player.
FileZilla - a full featured FTP client. I can’t function as a webmaster without it.
Mozilla Sunbird - my calendar and task management program. With a vary familiar interface, it replaces my MS Outlook long time ago.
XAMPP - Apache, mySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, etc in one complete package for a webmaster-to-be. A good platform for me to learn about how servers operated and how to operate a server.
Do you know that you can have all the above software WITHOUT Windows?
Today is Software Freedom Day 2007. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Their goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high-quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere!
It was a bit late when I got the news, and I have not be able to organize such an event here in Kota Kinabalu. When I checked on Software Freedom Day official website, there are only 2 places that held this event in Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur and Kuching.
I was wondering on how I can contribute to the community, although I am doing this alone. It is almost impossible to contact local university (University Malaysia Sabah) in this short period of time. I also do not have any contact with Malaysia Open Source Training Center to get some feedback on the above matter.
At last, I decided to give away my Ubuntu Linux cds which I got from Canonical few months back. 1 Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 64-bit and 2 Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 32-bit, which is in excellent condition. I also have their Kubuntu cds, but after trying, it seems that the cds are faulty. I won’t give the Kubuntu cds out.
For your information, Ubuntu Linux is one of the friendliest Linux operating system nowadays. It is really suitable for normal computer users, either notebook or desktop. It is a Live CDs, means that you don’t have to change any configuration to your existing computer to get it running. Just pop it in and run.
So, if you want to experience the feeling of having an option to your Window$, just drop an email to drizad(at)gmail.com with your address (Malaysia only please). I will personally snail mail/parcel it to you. If you don’t mind waiting, you can also ask your copy from ShipIt.
Talking about Ubuntu, I think you want to see this. Oh, put it in a better words - YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS -up till the end of the video.
That is the least I could do. Happy Software Freedom Day!
*First come, first serve basis, and yes, I am doing this free for Ubuntu.
