Surviving on Windows
From Freehackers
Here are some useful tools for linux freaks that, for whatever reason, need to work under windows.
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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
- InnoSetup: generates nice and powerful windows installer. See the dedicated page for Windows installer (also covers NSIS)
- 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:
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
Tools/Utilities
- Console: an equivalent of Konsole, but for windows: multi-tab and very quick display (in comparison to the windows console) are the main killer features.
- VirtuaWin: un vrai gestionnaire de bureaux virtuels
- 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
- Workrave: anti-RSI
- Clamwin: antivirus
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
- 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.
Graphics
Free as in beer but not free software:
- IrfanView: nice and practical
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
Video & Audio
- Videolan Client (VLC)
- mplayer
Free as in beer but not free software:
- iTunes
