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Free & Open Source Amaya A free HTML/CSS editor CentOS A Linux Operating System Dia Software to create diagrams and flowcharts Firefox A better web browser GIMP A Photo/Image Editor ImgBurn Excellent CD/DVD/BD/ISO software Notepad++ An nice alternative to Notepad LibreOffice An alternative to MS Office Paint.Net A Photo/Image Editor ReactOS An alternative to Windows OS Scribus A desktop publishing application sumopaint.com Incredible online Photo/Image Editor Thunderbird A nice email client Ubuntu A Linux Operating System linuxalt.com Linux and Open Source Alternatives makethemove.net Linux and Open Source Alternatives OSALT.com Open Source as an Alternative	Software Tips Browse the Internet without Windows Learn How Linux The Linux Documentation Project Microsoft Office Excel Tips Word Tips Open Office Calc Tips Tips on using Calc spreadsheet program Impress Tips Tips on using the Impress presentation program Writer Tips Tips on using Writer word processor	Additional Software Beyond Compare A great file comparison utility PrimoPDF Free PDF Creation application Antivirus/Antispam Ad-Aware Antiadware software program Clam Win Free, opensource antivirus software Malwarebytes Free, antimalware software Spybot Search & Destroy A great, free antispam tool Win Patrol Prevent unauthorzied installations Compression 7-Zip Free compression utility ZipGenius Free compression utility WinRAR Shareware compression utility; Supports many formats Winzip Popular compression utility FTP FileZilla Free FTP program WS-FTP A popular classic FTP program
Browse the Internet without having Windows or anything else installed? You can do this by creating a CD-ROM with one of the several free Linux installations already preconfigured. One great one is called Knoppix. Here's how to do it: Your network router/switch must be set to DHCP (automatically handing out IP addresses) Go to http://www.knoppix.net Download a knoppix file with the .ISO extension. At the time of this writing you can get it here Once you have the .ISO file, use a software program that will take that .ISO and create a CD from it. On Windows, a good free one is called ImgBurn Now make sure your computer is set to boot to CD-ROM first (in the BIOS setup). Or if there is a boot menu option like F12 that appears when you turn on the computer choose that. With the CD in the drive, turn on the machine. It should boot into a fully working copy of Knoppix. You can browse the Internet with Konqueror.