OpenOffice.org: office productivity suite    Firefox: Internet browser    Thunderbird: e-mail client    Sunbird: calendaring software—beta!    The GIMP: graphics manipulation    Inkscape: vector graphics application    Grisoft AVG Anti-virus: antivirus software for workstations WinSCP: free SFTP, FTP and SCP client    FileZilla: FTP client and server   

Russell Bateman’s free and open software information site...


Links to my own pages for open software

Raw links to open software

Additional free or low-cost software links

List of software that I use everyday

  • Firefox (ALL of my browsing at home and at work)
  • Thunderbird (all my personal mail)
  • OpenOffice (home and work—even when I have
    Microsoft Office!)
  • WinSCP (to maintain all my webpages from my Windows host)
  • AVG (all my personal computers running Windows) Note that you have to be very clever to get the absolutely free version of this utility. Otherwise, you’ll end up getting the free, 30-day trial for the commercial one. For version 8, look in the “Free basic protection” box, click on “Get it now!” and then look for “private use only”—click on the “Continue to AVG Free download.”
  • Burn4Free (at home and at work)
  • (I don’t use Nvu because I write all my HTML, CSS and JavaScript by hand. I can’t recommend it, but then I can’t recommend any software, like FrontPage or Dreamweaver that writes
    HTML for you.)

Important note on the Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Before downloading OpenOffice and other open software, it’s not a bad idea to ensure you have the latest JRE installed on your workstation. It is free for download and use. Click here and then in the center of the page click the link titled, Download J2SE JRE.