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Vector Linux 5.8 Live CD

Wednesday, 9. May 2007, 22:31:32

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Vector Linux is promoted as a light and fast distribution of Linux based on Slackware. Over at the Opera forum they forewarned me that this means it's not so good for the newbie, so it's with some trepidation I put the CD into my trusty P3 0.863Ghz machine with 256Mb RAM. The desktop environment is not Gnome or KDE, it's a more "lightweight" one called XFCE, version 4. Interestingly, according to the website XFCE is now based on GTK+, the GIMP toolkit - the GIMP being my new favourite graphics and animation program. I'm sure it can't be all bad. So, let's have a look then...

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Freeware I recommend

  • Opera USB

    Get Opera on a stick!

  • Media Monkey

    Don't get winamp. Get Media Monkey! Much easier to bulk-edit ID tags, much easier to organise your music. It also rips and burns audio CDs much better than crappy windows media player, which takes forever "preparing" files. Did I mention it's free?

  • Audacity - multitrack audio editor

    Open source audio editor and multitracker.

  • LAME Aint an Mp3 Encoder

    The original MP3 encoding software website.

  • WavPack - hybrid audio compression

    High quality audio compression.

  • 7-zip - archiver

    Zip program that gives better compression than any others. Supports zip, rar, gz, tar, and others, plus its own superior 7z format. On top of that it can open and edit iso files without mounting them!

  • PDF Creator

    Create PDFs out of any document or graphic file using a virutual "PDF Printer". Very easy to use.

  • CDBurnerXP Pro - CD and DVD burning software

    Easy, quick and full-featured CD/DVD burning software. Will also burn any ISO to any disk, and create an ISO file from any compilation you make. AND... it's free.

  • IrfanView

    The smallest, fastest, easiest graphics viewing and editing program I've come across.

  • The Gimp - Gnu Image Manipulation Program

    GNU Image Manipulation Program. Open source image editor available for Linux/BSD, Windows and Mac. Even more features, some that even Photoshop doesn't have such as gif animation.

  • Nvu - web editor

    Free web page editor - does most of what Dreamweaver does plus a bit more besides, and it's free - very handy...

  • PSPad - text/code editor

    Free text editor for coders. Very full-featured with loads of online resources, no matter what you are coding - PHP, HTML, C++, whatever. Or just like writing plain text documents.

  • Open Office suite

    Open Source office suite. It does pretty much everything that MS Office does - except drain your wallet of funds of course.

  • Spybot - Search and Destroy anti-spyware

    A great Spyware and Malware detection and removal program with lots of useful system tools for Windows.

  • Crap Cleaner

    Useful Windows cleanup utility. Free up disk space, check and fix registry errors, and other useful tools.

  • Avira Antivir

    A highly rated free anti-virus program

  • Avast Anti-Virus

    Another highly rated free anti-virus program

  • AVG Anti-virus/anti-malware

    Free Antivirus, anti spyware and anti rootkit software

  • Comodo Firewall Pro

    The best Firewall software available - and it's free. Comodo also make free antivirus and anti-spyware software.

  • Trillian - multi-protocol chat program

    Connects you to MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo Messenger so you can chat to your friends cross-platform all in one chat client.

  • Pidgin - multi-protocol chat program

    Like Trillian, but connects to you lots more instant messenger services for free: Jabber/XMPP/GoogleTalk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Zephyr and more. It's also available for Linux, BSD and other platforms whereas Trillian is Windows only.

  • Portable Apps

    A suite of programs you can put on any USB drive and run them on any Windows computer you plug the USB drive into. Huge range of useful apps.