Geared mainly towards college students needing to save a little cash, Jason Chen offers a list (categorized by name of software, comparable Windows application, and download site) of some pretty impressive open source software and freeware applications available on the ‘net. Eat your heart out, Bill Gates! [Link]
Wikipedia offers a list of software programs that you can store and run on a portable device, such as a USB flash drive. You can run these programs on any computer without much modification of the host computer’s hard drive. Especially helpful are the media players, portable Firefox, and OpenOffice. Check out the list here.
See also: List of open source software packages, freeware, shareware
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