Recently I bought myself a new laptop(“notebook”) so I can be more mobile and work wherever I find myself at.
Pre-installed with Windows XP Professional I was now looking for my office tools. Previously I primarily used Microft Outlook and Microsoft Office for my “Office Tools”.
So I decided this time as I do not want to spend money on buying these packages that I will go the Open Source.
So firstly, I searched for an alternative for Outlook and found Thunderbird(check to posts back), which was amazing.
The second thing I installed was OpenOffice 2, which I cannot get enough of. Although not all functionity work the same as in normal Mircrosoft Office, the basics are there, and I get the work done.
At the moment my notebook looks like:
- WindowsXP Pro
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- WinSCP(Secure Copy for copying file to Linux machines)
- putty
- Scientilla Text Editor
- Media Monkey (For music)
- VLC Media Player (for the vids)
- Tortoise SVN(for software dev)
- Gimp