From: Jeff Barr (jeff@vertexdev.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 16:59:18 PST
Here is my list:
Win2K SP1
Emacs
Outlook
Word
IE5
VB6
WinCVS
WinAmp
CynWin
XML Notepad
Excel
WinZip
MSDN
Visio
Powerpoint
Acrobat
Headline Viewer
Paint Shop Pro
Calculator
Jeff;
-----Original Message-----
From: John Klassa [mailto:klassa@cisco.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 12:26 PM
To: fork@xent.com
Subject: [redux] Windows software that you can't live without
This was hastily assembled, so I take fully responsibility for errors or
omissions. About a half dozen of you asked for this summary, so I figured
I might as well post it to the list... My thanks to all who responded. I
had a goodly number of the recommendations already installed on my box,
but was delighted to find a couple of gems that I hadn't known about, and
which scratched some itches I'd had. :-)
Take care!
John
--%<--snip--%<--
Loosely collating what I received, with the caveat that some folks said
"yeah, what he said, plus these" :-), here are the recommendations in
descending order of popularity (sorted within popularity by alphabet):
5 x winzip
4 x winamp
4 x emacs
4 x cygwin
2 x vim
2 x securecrt
2 x python
2 x perl
2 x outlook express
2 x opera
2 x notetab
2 x ghostscript
2 x acrobat
2 x 4nt
1 x zope
1 x zonealarm
1 x yats32 time synchronizer
1 x xml spy
1 x windows scripting host
1 x windows media player
1 x wincvs
1 x wiki
1 x webwasher
1 x w2k sp1
1 x vnc
1 x textpad
1 x staroffice
1 x realplayer
1 x radio
1 x quicktime
1 x putty
1 x powerdvd
1 x pgp
1 x office
1 x o2k sp1
1 x norton anti-virus
1 x newbinpro
1 x netscape 4.7x
1 x napster
1 x ms vac++ v6.0
1 x mks shell
1 x miktex
1 x mcafee virusscan
1 x lynx
1 x leechftp
1 x jdk
1 x irfanview
1 x internet maniac
1 x ie 5.5
1 x html-kit
1 x graphic workshop
1 x gimp
1 x ftp voyager
1 x ftp explorer
1 x front page express
1 x flask
1 x fineprint
1 x eudora
1 x dreamweaver
1 x digiguide
1 x c compiler
1 x bookmark sync
1 x atomica
1 x agent
Broken out by the person who recommended it (and with most of the
descriptions removed, except where they indicate what something is),
roughly in the order received:
Greg Bolcer winzip
Yangkun Zhang 4nt
atomica (www.atomica.com)
bookmark sync (www.syncit.com)
cygwin
vim
winamp
Jay Gooby digiguide (fantastic uk tv listings software)
outlook express
winamp
winzip (or freeware equivalent powerarchive)
Bill Stoddard cygwin32 toolkit
emacs
ms vac++ v6.0
napster
securecrt
windows media player (v7)
winzip
Chris Olds 4nt (from jasc, a better shell for dos)
acrobat
c compiler
emacs
front page express
ghostscript
leechftp
mks shell (also good; includes some unix tools)
office
perl
pgp (nice email integration & systray applet)
python (including pythoncom & wxpython)
securecrt
vnc
winamp
wincvs
windows scripting host (javascript + components)
winzip
Dan Kohn adobe acrobat
ghostscript
html-kit
ie 5.5
norton anti-virus
o2k sp1
outlook 2000 sp1
powerdvd
quicktime
realplayer
w2k sp1
webwasher
winamp
winzip
xml spy
Joachim Feise fineprint
ftp voyager
graphic workshop
jdk
mcafee virusscan
netscape 4.7x
staroffice
textpad
yats32 time synchronizer
Tom Whore dreamweaver
flask (turns dvds into cd-sized nuggets of goodness)
gimp
lynx
newbinpro (usenet fishing that is amazingly bountiful)
notetab
opera
zonealarm (amazingly useful watchdog/mini firewall)
zope
Rahul Dave cygnus win32 tools
gvim or vim
miktex (tex)
perl
python with win32-com additions
radio (if you maintain a frontier weblog and such)
xemacs-win32 edition
Jeff Bone wiki (www.tinyted.net/eddie/wiki)
Udhay Shankar N agent (www.forteinc.com)
eudora (www.eudora.com)
ftp explorer (www.ftpx.com)
internet maniac (www.csee.usf.edu/~birla/)
irfanview (student.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474)
notetab (www.notetab.com)
opera (www.opera.com)
James Tauber cygwin
emacs
Joshua D. Baugher putty (www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty)
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