WorkSprache/Language
- deutsch
- english (selected)
About the Software Toolbox – Reach your aim with Free Software
Example Software Toolbox
Ubuntu is a distribution of the free operating system GNU/Linux. It is liked for its simple installation, user-friendlyness and its big community of happy users. Ubuntu is safe, reliable, available free of charge and can do everything Windows can do – and more!
GNU/Linux is a free operating system. For end users it is distributed by different distributors in form of various distributions, partly commercially, partly free of charge.
Eclipse is a professional, modular, free development environment for a lot of programming languages, especially Java. Eclipse itself is based on Java and therefore works on all common operating systems, including Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
OpenOffice.org is a powerful, free office suite with applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, data base access, formula editing and vector graphics editing. It is available free of charge for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Inkscape is a powerful, free vector graphics editor. It uses the open file format SVG and is available free of charge for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
GIMP is a powerful, free image editing application with professional features. It is available free of charge for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Bluefish is a fast, professional, free editor for web designers and programmers. It works under Linux, Mac OS X and (with some restrictions) Windows.
TeX is a professional type setting system. There is plenty of software that can work with TeX for all operation systems imaginable.
Mozilla Firefox is a free, convenient and extensible web browser. It is available free of charge for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Ubuntu
GNU/Linux
Eclipse
OpenOffice.org
Inkscape
GIMP
Bluefish
TeX
Mozilla FirefoxWith most of my “works” on this website you find a box with the title “Software Toolbox”. In this box there is a list of all Free Software I used during the work at that project, with a link to the homepage of the respective software.
What is Free Software?
All programs presented in the Software Toolbox are available without fee (“Freeware”). But this meaning of the word “free” (like in “free beer”) is not what makes software Free Software. The true freedom that Free Software brings consists of the facts that everyone can freely use it, share it, view and learn from its source code, enhance it and distribute works that are based on it—the sole limitation is that the derived works have to be put under a license that grants the same freedoms.
Why Free Software?
Free Software brings heaps of advantages to users as well as developers and I don’t want to repeat them just another time – you can find lots of related information on the web, just search for the term “Free Software”.