Surviving on Windows

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Here are some useful tools for linux freaks that, for whatever reason, need to work under windows.

See also the yzis page

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[edit] Development

  • Vim
  • Cygwin: No sane human can survive without full unix shell: bash, find, grep, cp, diff and co are all there.
  • TortoiseCVS
  • TortoiseSVN
  • Winmerge
  • Doxygen
  • ActivePython: Comes with windows doc, very handy
  • EasyPhp
  • NSIS (NullSoft Installer): generates nice and powerful windows installer
  • InnoSetup: generates nice and powerful windows installer
  • Dependancy Walker: view the dll dependancy graph of any executable or DLL, equivalent of unix ldd
  • Sys Internals tools. Every tool is useful. Most useful:
    • DebugView: view debug output from a non console application
    • PortMon: Spy the serial port
    • File mon: spy on files being opened or closed
    • Reg mon : spy all the accesses to the windows registry

[edit] Internet

  • Firefox: no introduction needed for this killer app from the mozilla team.
  • Thunderbird mail reader, also from the mozilla team.
  • Enigmail: pgp plugin for thunderbird, very useful
  • Putty: ssh client and ssh key handler (pageant)
  • Winscp: super useful to drag'n drop files onto a ssh remote location
  • RealVnc
  • Ethereal
  • XChat : the best irc client for windows imho (thomas)
  • Jabber, Psi (beurk)


Free as in beer but not free software:

  • Spybot Search'n Destroy: get rid of your adware and of all program that are supriously started by windows upon each startup
  • ZoneLabs: you can not survive on windows without a minimal firewall

[edit] Tools/Utilities

  • Workrave: anti-RSI
  • Clamwin: antivirus
  • Truecrypt: encrypt partitions or files. Useful for usb keys or laptop. encrypted stuff can be read from windows and linux.
  • 7Zip: unzip but old-school interface
  • gpg4win: different GPG frontends for Windows. WinPT is the best one IMHO


Free as in beer but not free software:

  • ISO Recorder: create cd from ISO on windows.
  • Winrar: can handle tar.gz and tar.bz2 as well as all the classical windows compression formats (rar, arj, zip, ...)
  • Advanced Calculator: a good calculator: RPN, graphs, ...
  • Windows Power Toys: more goodies
    • Open DOS window here in exporer
    • Virtual Desktop Manager
    • Replace Stupid calculator by Scientific Calculator
  • Free Launch Bar: stack icons in the windows launch bar, super practical
  • xplorer2: a replacement of windows explorer. More features, quicker.

[edit] Graphics


Free as in beer but not free software:

  • IrfanView: nice and practical

[edit] Office

  • Openoffice (french)
  • PDFCreator: Create a PDF from any file in windows with this virtual printer
  • StarUML
  • Foxit: a PDF viewer 3 times lighter that Adobe Acrobat

[edit] Video & Audio

  • Videolan Client (VLC)
  • mplayer
  • mp3Ext: edit mp3 tags in windows explorer

Free as in beer but not free software:

  • iTunes
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