Software Freedom Day: My Favorite OSS Apps
Today is Software Freedom Day worldwide, and I thought I'd support the effort by noting my favorite products. I use computers in Linux and Windows. Many of the programs are also available for Macintosh.
My primary office software is OpenOffice. The product is available for all operating systems, and its primary supporter is Sun Microsystems. Its word processing is top-notch, its spreadsheet is very good (Excel's charting is better), and its presentation program is somewhere in between. The new 3.0 version will be out shortly, and reviews have been quite good. There's little reason to buy office software any more when free can be this good and solid. I originally started using it because Microsoft Word would misbehave at the most inappropriate times and its document formatting has always been quirky. I still use Excel for charts. OpenOffice includes PDF export capabilities, and this feature alone makes it worthwhile. Version 3.0 will have a feature that can "decompose" PDFs into editable documents.
For audio recording, Audacity is available for all operating systems and is superb.
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