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Ramprasad B |
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Subject: |
www/software for-windows.html |
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Date: |
Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:50:36 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Ramprasad B <ramprasadb> 06/06/17 09:50:36
Modified files:
software : for-windows.html
Log message:
Fixed [gnu.org #290258], fixed fsf contact link, others
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/for-windows.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
Patches:
Index: for-windows.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/for-windows.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- for-windows.html 19 Oct 2005 20:19:26 -0000 1.4
+++ for-windows.html 17 Jun 2006 09:50:29 -0000 1.5
@@ -75,10 +75,65 @@
<center>
<!-- centered-->
+
+ <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>7-Zip</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>WinZip, WinRAR</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.7-zip.org";>http://www.7-zip.org</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="2">
+ <p>File archiver which integrates into the windows shell and
+ supports ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM,
+ DEB, and it's own format, 7z, which offers a higher
+ compression ratio than any other current archive format.</p>
+ <p><i>The graphical version of 7zip is currently only compatible
with GNU/Linux
+ under WINE. However, you can use the commandline program
+ <a href="http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/";>p7zip</a> to decompress
7zip files.</i></p>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <br />
+
+ <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Blender 3D</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td> Maya, 3DSMax</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/blender.html";>
+ http://directory.fsf.org/blender.html</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="2"><p>Blender is the first and only fully
+ integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling,
+ animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D
+ and game creation and playback with cross-platform
+ compatibility.</p></td></tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <br />
+
+ <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Dia</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>MicroSoft Visio</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/dia.html";>
+ http://directory.fsf.org/dia.html</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="2">
+ <p>Dia is designed to be much like the proprietary Microsoft
+ program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds
+ of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw
+ entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts,
+ network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible
+ to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files,
+ using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.</p>
+ <p>It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format
+ (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to
+ EPS or SVG formats and can print diagrams (including ones
+ that span multiple pages).</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <br/>
+
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
<tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Gaim</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Trillian, Chat Clients</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/gaim.html";>http://directory.fsf.org/gaim.html</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/gaim.html";>
+ http://directory.fsf.org/gaim.html</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
<p>Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client, with support
for:</p>
<ul>
@@ -99,25 +154,10 @@
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
- <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>VideoLAN Client (VLC)</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td> Windows Media Player,
PowerDVD</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc";>http://www.videolan.org/vlc</a></td></tr>
- <tr><td colspan="2">
- <p>VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable
- multimedia player for various audio and video formats
- (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as
- DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be
- used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4
- or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.</p>
- </td></tr>
- </table>
-
- <br />
-
- <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
<tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>GNU Image Manipulation Program
(GIMP)</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/gimp.html";>http://directory.fsf.org/gimp.html</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/gimp.html";>
+ http://directory.fsf.org/gimp.html</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
<p>GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It
can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality
@@ -138,39 +178,33 @@
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
- <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Blender 3D</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td> Maya, 3DSMax</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/blender.html";>http://directory.fsf.org/blender.html</a></td></tr>
- <tr><td colspan="2"><p>Blender is the first and only fully
- integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling,
- animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D
- and game creation and playback with cross-platform
- compatibility.</p></td></tr>
- </table>
-
- <br />
-
- <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
- <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>OpenOffice</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Microsoft Office</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.openoffice.org";>http://www.openoffice.org</a></td></tr>
- <tr><td colspan="2"><p>OpenOffice.org is a multi-platform
- office productivity suite compatible with all major file
- formats.</p></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Inkscape</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Sodipodi</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a href="http://www.inkscape.org/";>
+ http://www.inkscape.org/</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="2">
+ <p>Inkscape is an vector graphics editor, with capabilities
+ similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the
W3C
+ standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG
+ features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha
blending,
+ transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping.</p>
+ <p>Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing,
layers,
+ complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text,
+ direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG,
TIFF,
+ and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based
formats.</p>
+ </td></tr>
</table>
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
- <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>7-Zip</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>WinZip, WinRAR</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.7-zip.org";>http://www.7-zip.org</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>MinGW</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Microsoft Visual C++</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.mingw.org/";>http://www.mingw.org/</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
- <p>File archiver which integrates into the windows shell and
- supports ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM,
- DEB, and it's own format, 7z, which offers a higher
- compression ratio than any other current archive format.</p>
- <p><i>The graphical version of 7zip is currently only compatible
with GNU/Linux under WINE. However, you can use the commandline program <a
href="http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/";>p7zip</a> to decompress 7zip files.</i></p>
+ <p>MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) provides many of the GNU
programming
+ utilities on Windows. It includes the GNU Compiler Collection
(GCC), Binutils,
+ Gnu Debugger (GDB), make, and more. </p>
</td></tr>
</table>
@@ -179,7 +213,8 @@
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
<tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Mozilla Thunderbird</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Outlook, Outlook Express</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/Thunderbird.html";>http://directory.fsf.org/Thunderbird.html</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/Thunderbird.html";>
+ http://directory.fsf.org/Thunderbird.html</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><p>Versatile and modular e-mail
client. Supports themes and extensions to customise and
increase it's functionality. Has integrated "smart" spam
@@ -191,9 +226,37 @@
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>OpenOffice</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Microsoft Office</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.openoffice.org";>http://www.openoffice.org</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="2"><p>OpenOffice.org is a multi-platform
+ office productivity suite compatible with all major file
+ formats.</p></td></tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <br />
+
+ <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Scribus</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>PageMaker, InDesign</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a href="http://www.scribus.net/";>
+ http://www.scribus.net/</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td colspan="2">
+ <p>Scribus is a desktop publishing application, like Adobe PageMaker
or Adobe InDesign
+ from the proprietary software world. It is free software,
distributed under
+ the terms of the Gnu General Public License.</p>
+ <p>Scribus supports many major graphic formats including most all of
the standard
+ ones used in DTP in addition to SVG import and export.</p>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <br />
+
+ <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
<tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Sodipodi</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Coreldraw, Adobe Illustrator</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/sodipodi.html";>http://directory.fsf.org/sodipodi.html</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/sodipodi.html";>
+ http://directory.fsf.org/sodipodi.html</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
<p>Sodipodi is a vector-based drawing program, like
CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator from the proprietary software
@@ -212,36 +275,22 @@
<br />
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
- <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>MinGW</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>Microsoft Visual C++</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.mingw.org/";>http://www.mingw.org/</a></td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>VideoLAN Client (VLC)</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td> Windows Media Player,
PowerDVD</td></tr>
+ <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc";>http://www.videolan.org/vlc</a></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
- <p>MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) provides many of the GNU
programming utilities on Windows. It includes the GNU Compiler Collection
(GCC), Binutils, Gnu Debugger (GDB), make, and more. </p>
+ <p>VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable
+ multimedia player for various audio and video formats
+ (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as
+ DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be
+ used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4
+ or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.</p>
</td></tr>
</table>
<br />
- <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="85%"
style="background-color: #f2f2f9">
- <tr><td><b>Application:</b></td><td>Dia</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>Replaces:</b></td><td>MicroSoft Visio</td></tr>
- <tr><td><b>URL:</b></td><td><a
href="http://directory.fsf.org/dia.html";>http://directory.fsf.org/dia.html</a></td></tr>
- <tr><td colspan="2">
- <p>Dia is designed to be much like the proprietary Microsoft
- program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds
- of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw
- entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts,
- network diagrams, and simple circuits. It is also possible
- to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files,
- using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.</p>
- <p>It can load and save diagrams to a custom XML format
- (gzipped by default, to save space), can export diagrams to
- EPS or SVG formats and can print diagrams (including ones
- that span multiple pages).</p>
- </td></tr>
- </table>
-
- <br/></center>
+ </center>
<p>These are just a small amount of the more common free software
applications available for the Microsoft Windows platform. For
@@ -259,7 +308,11 @@
</table>
</center>
- <p></p>
+<br />
+<p>
+<hr />
+</p>
+<br />
<!-- Ignore this. -->
<!--<p class="translations">
@@ -279,7 +332,7 @@
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
-There are also <a href="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to contact</a>
+There are also <a href="http://www.fsf.org/about/contact.html";>other ways to
contact</a>
the FSF.
<br />
Please send broken links and other corrections (or suggestions) to
@@ -294,7 +347,7 @@
</p>
-<p>Copyright © 2004 Alan Madden.<br /><br /> Permission
+<p>Copyright © 2004, 2006 Alan Madden.<br /><br /> Permission
is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free
@@ -304,7 +357,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2005/10/19 20:19:26 $ $Author: johnsu01 $
+$Date: 2006/06/17 09:50:29 $ $Author: ramprasadb $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
- www/software for-windows.html,
Ramprasad B <=