This project was inspired after reading a post on Utterly Boring which linked to a list of free software that missed a LOT of my favorites.

I’m going to start with programs that I use every day, please feel free to add your favorite free software.

Just to clarify, my version of free simply means “You don’t need to pay”. GPL software is great, but I’m just trying to gather as much free stuff as I can.

Please Keep in alphabetical order, and feel free to put credits at the bottom of the page.

• Anim8or – http://www.anim8or.com/

• AntiVir? – http://www.free-av.com/
• AVG Free Edition – http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php

• XChat – http://www.xchat.org
• GAIM – http://gaim.sf.net

• Calc98 – http://www.calculator.org/CalcWindows.html
• Dicom 4 – http://www.knowbotron.com/

• CDBurnerXP? Pro – http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
• DeepBurner? – http://www.deepburner.com/

• UltimateZip? – http://www.ultimatezip.com/
• 7-Zip – http://www.7-zip.org/

• Pegasus Mail – http://www.pmail.com
• Pimmy – http://www.geminisoft.com/pimmy.eng/
• Sylpheed Claws – http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/
• Mozilla ThunderBird – http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
• Mozilla Mail/News (part of the Mozilla web and messaging suite) – http://mozilla.org/mailnews/
• PC-Pine – http://www.washington.edu/pine/

• FileZilla – http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
• FTPwandere?– http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_wanderer.html

• BZFlag – http://bzflag.org/
• Head over Heels – http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/
• Lbreakout – http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2
• Rocks ‘n Diamonds – http://www.artsoft.org/rocksndiamonds/
• Sokoban – http://www.games4brains.de/
• Solar Wolf – http://www.pygame.org/shredwheat/solarwolf/

• Irfanview – http://www.irfanview.com
• Xnview – http://www.xnview.com/
• The GIMP – http://www.gimp.org
• Sodipodi – http://www.sodipodi.com

• Zinf – http://www.zinf.org
• Winamp – http://www.winamp.com

• The SWORD Project – http://www.crosswire.org
• E-Sword – http://e-sword.net/

• PuTTY – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

• Firefox – http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
• Mozilla – http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

• WebCoder? – http://www.tsware.net/

• Open Office – http://www.openoffice.org
• Abiword – http://www.abisource.com
• CopyWriter? – http://home.planet.nl/~gaale131/home.htm
• Jarte – http://www.jarte.com

• BCX – http://bcx.basicguru.com/

• VIM – http://www.vim.org

• Virtualdub – http://virtualdub.org/

• Spybot - Search & Destroy – http://security.kolla.de/

Contributers:

• Aaron Wormus
• Clare Parker