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Competing With Microsoft Office, With a Dash of Help from Redmond

Here on OStatic, we've made the point many times that open source software often outdoes proprietary competitors. That said, if I see a good piece of freeware, or a fee-based commercial product, I'll still get it if it's best-of-breed. In this post, I'll flesh out a complete suite of software applications that can compete with and work seamlessly with the Microsoft Office suite, where a combination of open source titles, and one single $39.95 application will keep you totally competitive with--and compatible with--the Office suite.


6 Free Tools For Creating Top-Notch Documents

I use a ton of software applications, but a major portion of the time I spend using a computer goes to writing, and creating documents. There are many good open source tools for everything from word processing, to desktop publishing, to booklet creation, to weaving words and graphics together. In this post, I'll cover six free applications--five of them open source and one freeware app--that can help you create eye-catching documents.


8 Useful Collections of Open Source Apps

Datamation has a good collection of 75 Popular Open Source Desktop Downloads posted. The products in the list are categorized, and include business applications, operating systems, collaboration tools, and more. Even if you use a lot of open source applications, you'll probably find some new things to try, such as the K-Meleon and Galeon browsers. Here, below the fold, are a few more useful collections of tools and tips to try.


Get Herds of Top OSS Apps in One Free Download--Mac & Windows

If you want to put a boatload of useful open source applications on a computer or, as I do, on a pocket USB drive so that you can have them with you at all times, there are now some very fast ways to do this. MacLibre is a great way to get tons of good free, open source apps in one download for Mac users. For Windows users, as I've written about before PortableApps.com is also a great way to get many free applications in one free download. So what kinds of applications are we talking about?



New Version of AbiWord: A Free, Robust Word Processor

AbiWord, my long-time favorite open source word processor, is out with a new version 2.6, including many useful new features. If you haven't used this application before, give it a try, and if you already do, the upgrade is worthwhile. You can browse through the release notes to see how many new additions there are. In particular, many users will appreciate the ability to open files on remote shares, much more flexibility with import and export filters, and improvements to the clipboard and drag-and-drop functions. Many of these improvements make the interface cleaner and snappier.


10 Free Minimalist Word Processors for Greater Productivity

Original Post authored by Leo Babauta on 6/22/2007 on WebWorkerDaily

There are times when all we need to do is write. Really crank out the text. (For me, that's most of the day.) We don't need distractions and we don't need a bloated, expensive word processor with way too many features and way too slow a load time (I'm looking at you, Microsoft Word).

What we need is a minimalist, distraction-free word processor - and being the cheapskates that we are, we want it free.