lots of freeware

[major_small]

thanks to B0nes at BFL for this list:

3D Graphics:
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services/maya/maya_ple/get_maya_ple.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.htm
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/

Anti-Virus:
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/

Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html

IRC Clients:
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.xchat.org/

Audio Players:
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Foobar 2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Jet Audio Basic - http://www.jetaudio.com/
Musik - http://musik.berlios.de/
QCD Player - http://www.quinnware.com/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/

Audio Tools:
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
EAC - http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Encounter 2003 - http://www.waschbusch.com/
GermaniXEncoder - http://www.germanixsoft.de/
K-MP3 - http://www.katarncorp.com/
KraMixer - http://www.kramware.com/
MP3 Book Helper - http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Tag - http://www.mp3tag.de/
mp3DirectCut - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch/
MP3Gain - http://www.geocities.com/mp3gain/
mp3Trim - http://www.logiccell.com/~mp3trim/
MusicBrainz - http://musicbrainz.org/
Rarewares - http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/
SoundEngine Free - http://www.cycleof5th.com/en/index.htm
TagScanner - http://xdev.narod.ru/tagscan_e.htm
The GodFather - http://users.otenet.gr/~jtcliper/tgf/

CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr

Compression / Decompression:
7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org/
bzip2 - http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html
FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/
IZArc - http://www.florida.plus.com/izarc/
QuickZip - http://www.quickzip.org/
TUGZip - http://www.tugzip.com/
UltimateZIP - http://www.ultimatezip.com/
UPX - http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Zip&Go - http://www.handybits.com/zipngo.htm
Zipgenius - http://www.zipgenius.it/

Defrag Software:
DIRMS & Buzzsaw - http://www.dirms.com/
OpenVMS - http://www.execsoft.com/freeware/freeware.asp

Desktop Enhancements:
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
tclock2 - http://home.inreach.com/2tone/tclock2/tclock2.htm

Download managers:
Fresh Download - http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdown.html
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
Net Transport - http://lycos26486.l78.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
Star Downloader - http://www.stardownloader.com/downloads.php
wackget - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
wget - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

Encryption and data security:
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
Blowfish Advanced CS- http://web.bsn.ch/lasse/bfacs.htm
Eraser - http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php
File Shredder - http://www.sys-shield.com/fileshredder.htm
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
PGP Freeware - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
WindowsCleaner - http://www.winnowsoft.com/internet-eraser.htm

File Managers:
2xExplorer - http://netez.com/2xExplorer/
A43 - http://www.shawneelink.net/~bgmiller/
Gyula's Navigator - http://www.wanari.com/
JExplorer - http://home.megapass.co.kr/~woosjung/
MeeSoft Commander - http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

File repair and recovery:
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Firewalls:
Kerio (Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use) - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost Firewall (version 1 is free) - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
Sygate (FREE for personal use) - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Zonealarm Basic firewall - http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/comp...reeDownload.jsp

FTP Clients:
Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/

FTP Servers:
FileZilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
Quick 'n Easy FTP Server - http://www.pablovandermeer.nl/ftp_server.html
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd
WarFTPD - http://www.jgaa.com/

HTML Editors:
1st page 2000 - http://www.evrsoft.com/download.shtml
AceHTML - http://freeware.acehtml.com/download.html
Aracnophilia - http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Selida - http://www.amaryllis.8m.com/
Trellian webPAGE - http://webpage.vendercom.com/
TSW WebCoder - http://www.tsware.net/

Image viewers:
Ahaview - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/ahaviewfree.exe
Irfanview - http://www.irfanview.com/
SlowView - http://www.slowview.at/
XNView - http://www.xnview.com/

Instant Messenger:
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Rhymbox - http://www.rhymbox.com/
PSI - http://psi.affinix.com/
Trillian Basic - http://trillian.cc/downloads

Internet Explorer Front-Ends:
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm

Mail programs:
i.Scribe - http://www.memecode.com/
Mahogany Mail - http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/
Pegasus Mail - http://www.pmail.com/
Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Anti-spam programs:
K9 - http://www.keir.net/k9.html
MailWasher- http://www.mailwasher.net/
POPFile - http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
SpamBayes - http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Network Tools:
CMDTime NTP Utility - http://www.softshape.com/download/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
NMap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Ntop - http://www.ntop.org
PingPlotter - http://www.pingplotter.com
PuTTY - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
RAS Graph & Stats - http://forum.flashfxp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2400
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
TightVNC - http://www.tightvnc.org/
UltraVNC - http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/
WinSCP - http://www.winscp.com/

Office Suite:
602PC Suite free edition - http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/download.html
AbiWord - http://www.abiword.com/
Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/

Partition Managers:
Partition Resizer - http://zeleps.com/
Ranish Partition Manager - http://www.ranish.com/part/
TestDisk - http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

PDF Utilities:
Free PDF - http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/frpdfdl.htm
Ghostscript/GSView - http://www.ghostscript.com/
PDF 995 - http://www.pdf995.com/
PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Photo manipulation and image design:
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/
Sodiodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint

Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl
Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev Pascal - http://www.bloodshed.net/
Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/
Freepascal - http://www.freepascal.org/
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Python - http://www.python.org/
Ruby - http://www.dm4lab.to/~usa/ruby/index_en.html
SharpDevelop - http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sd/

Pop-up Blockers:
Google Toolbar - http://www.google.com/
NoAds - http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
PopUp Stopper - http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
Privoxy - http://www.privoxy.org/
Proxomitron - http://www.proxomitron.info/


System Information and monitoring:
AIDA32 - http://www.aida32.hu/
CPU-Z - http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Gkrellm - http://bill.nalens.com/
Motherboard monitor - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html

Video codes :
DivX Codec - http://www.divx.com/divx/?src=toptab_divx_from_/index.php
FFDSHOW - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow
Kazaa Lite Codec Pack - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Nimo Codec Pack - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/nimo_pack.html
Quicktime Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/
Real Player Alternative - http://www.k-litecodecpack.com/

Video players :
BsPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Cygwin MPlayer - http://armory.nicewarrior.org/projects/cygmp/
MaximusDVD - http://www.maximusdvd.com/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
VideoLan - http://www.videolan.org/

Video tools:
DVD Shrink - http://www.dvdshrink.org/
DScaler - http://deinterlace.sourceforge.net/
FlasKMPEG - http://www.flaskmpeg.net
GSpot - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org/
VirtualDubMod - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65889
xviD - http://www.roeder.goe.net/~koepi/xvid.shtml
Zwei-Stein Video Editor - http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Web browsers:
Firebird - http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
K-Meleon - http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

Web servers:
Abyss - http://abyss.sourceforge.net/
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
Sambar - http://www.sambar.com/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
TinyWeb - http://www.ritlabs.com/tinyweb/index.html

Webcam Software:
booruWebCam - http://www.booru.net/
Pryme - http://www.hilo.dk/pryme/

Checksum Utilities:
fsum - http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/
hksfv - http://www.big-o-software.com/products/hksfv/
md5sum - http://www.etree.org/md5com.html

md5summer - http://www.md5summer.org/

General Utilities And Other Applications:
AnalogX - http://www.analogx.com/
AppRocket - http://www.candylabs.com/approcket/
Celestia - http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com
Dirkey - http://www.protonfx.com/dirkey/
EditPad Lite - http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
Memtest-86 - http://www.memtest86.com
MWSnap - http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
NetTime - http://nettime.sourceforge.net
Nullsoft Installer - http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis
Peerguardian - http://xs.tech.nu/
QuickSFV - http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Mouse/4668/
png2ico - http://winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico
Stickies - http://finiteloop.org/~btaylor/software/stickies/
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com/
Vim - http://vim.sourceforge.net


there was one more for the IRC clients, but the swear filter keeps blocking it out... who wrote the cover for that anyway?

[axon]

well damn....that is certainly nice...probably should go as a sticky somewhere.... good resources, thanks!

[maes]

nice :) reputation++;
I would add these also:
Panda online virusscanner: http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
Hijackthis (startup monitor) http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

I'll search my favs too if I have some more time

[Glirk Dient]

WOW!! Awsome work!

This definately deserves a sticky.

[Govtcheez]

Stickified

[whackaxe]

3D Graphics: Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
Anti-Virus: AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
Anti Spyware:
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Audio Players: Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Audio Tools: Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
FTP Clients: Filezilla! - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
FTP Servers: GuildFTPD - http://www.totalshareware.com/asp/detail_v...pplication=8334
HTML Editors: HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/
Mail programs: Thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/
Photo manipulation and image design: The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
Programming: Dev C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
PHP Hypertext Parser - http://www.php.net/
Web browsers: Firebird - http://texturizer.net/firebird/index.html
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Web servers:
Abyss - http://aprelium.com

this is a list of programs endorsed by yours truley, of which i have at lleast a little experience. most i know quite or very well for having compared them to other products

[Lurker]

Interesting....

[XSquared]

Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org/
</shameless plug>

[major_small]

haha... thanks for teh sticky... and, again, thanks to B0nes for the list...

/adds new proggies posted to list

[joshdick]

HTML editor: Matrix Y2K - http://www.crystalfibers.com/index.php?topicid=20
Web browser: Opera - http://www.opera.com

[tgm]

Networking:
SSH Server - http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/

[whackaxe]

3D: terragen www.planetside.co.uk

is like VUE or bryce ('cept better ;))

you need to change the ABYSS web server adress to. the site you link to has abyss 0.3. abyss is now on version 1.2 at www.aprelium.com

[caroundw5h]

Unbelievable resource. let me add:


Gnu/linux free software: http://www.gnu.org/directory/
unix man pages:http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?
linux distros and live Cd's:http://distrowatch.com/ and http://www.linuxiso.org/
file Sharing:Mod Edit, Rule 6

hacking faq:Mod Edit, Rule 6
FTP SERVERS: http://www.bpftpserver.com/
and http://www.guildftpd.com/index.php

hosting your own site:http://www.dslwebserver.com/

Python resources:http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html
Algorithms:http://www.nist.gov/dads/
Freecountry: http://www.thefreecountry.com/
Free Programming resources:http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/

[ggs]

a question - i see that something under "file sharing" has been censored above. what exactly is the limitation involved here? there are many ftp client/servers above, and they are extremely popular for "illegal" usage. other file sharing applications can be used for "legal" purposes as well. for instance, dc++ (available on sourceforge) is an extremely useful piece of software which one can use to distribute both legal and illegal files.

the question is, do you suppress the file sharing link because it MAY be used to spread illegal files? (in which case, you should also remove ftp servers and possibly http servers). or did you suppress is because it was called LEETHAXSOFTSHARE (or kazaa)?

addendum:
then again, it may be the case that you are censoring "active" file sharing software, wherein you just enter in a search key and then lists of results are returned (ex kazaa, napster). under this type of censorship, ftp servers are cool because you must know their address before using them. in this case you should block links to google.com, which is a website allowing one to enter a search string and find potentially dangerous and illegal information in the form of html and other files.

pps:

the rule cited:
6. Messages relating to cracking, (erroneously called "hacking" by many), copyright violations, or other illegal activities will be deleted.

all i'm saying is that use file sharing program is not copyright violation or an illegal activity. i can jump on google and find keys for windows xp at this moment, but it is not censored.

[major_small]

I was going to debate that as well, because file sharing (and the utilities involved) is not, in itself, illegal... legally, there's nothing that can be done if the software is posted here under a proper license, but then again if the mods/supermods/admins/etc. don't want it there, there's nothing we can do about it, and it is covered under rule 6...

[caroundw5h]

I didn't even notice that till you guys said something. I for one have to say I think its ridiculous that it is censored and I think ggs already made all the relevant points. ALL OF HIS POINTS WERE GOOD.
It amazes how much ppl who are supposed to be logical and scientific still don't employ it and allow emotion to rule. :rolleyes: sad. Sad, very sad. The mod suppressing that info - when like ggs said there are even more dangerous tools available that will enable you to do even more damage - is, I don't even know how to articulate it. Sad. open sourced, closed mouths.

sad.

maybe ggs, its cause we are from canada and anything goes here. we employ common sense without the need for redundant bureaucracy and red tape.

[ggs]

i wouldn't agree that we are free from red tape :(

but really that's offtopic, i just await final judgement from mods


maybe ggs, its cause we are from canada and anything goes here. we employ common sense without the need for redundant bureaucracy and red tape.


i just picked up on the sarcasm :l

[caroundw5h]

i wouldn't agree that we are free from red tape :(

but really that's offtopic, i just await final judgement from mods
whatever... :rolleyes: their board, their rules. your perogative.

[Vicious]

Best Text Editor... ever...
http://www.crimsoneditor.com

It has support for nearly every programming/web/scripting language you could think of
(Syntax colors and spacing)

asm, c/c++, java, php, html, batch files, unrealscript, fortran, basic, z80 asm, all kinds of crap.

You can also create your own.

[XSquared]

I prefer vim. :p

[Vicious]

well, when I said best, I should have said the only one Ive tried except notepad :P

[major_small]

vim > crimsoncrap

j/p :P

[Kai_Legends]

very nice list. Looks like I'm gonna be downloading quite a few things tonight!

[Aerie]

Freeware site: http://www.nonags.com/

[Govtcheez]

Another list just sent to me by confuted:

Adobe Reader SpeedUp - Speeds up loading Adobe Reader (http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23766,00.asp)

Mouse Gestures for Firefox - Makes life easier. (http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/index.html)

PDF reDirect - Allows you to "print" to a PDF file. (http://www.exp-systems.com/PDFreDirect/)

StrokeIt - Mouse gestures for Windows (explorer, et al.) (http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/)

Zone-Alarm - Free firewall (stops internet nasties) (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp)

[RoD]

I never gave this thread much thought, and then while looking for a new ftp server program, it came to mind. Great thread, rep++!

[Bubba]

I've seen this thread a billion times and just now clicked it. Wow!!! Thanks a million. Grabbing GMAX as I write this.

Thanks a million.

Sometimes a game is only as good as its tools.

Rep++ for sure.

[xxxrugby]

Wow somebody got too many free time.
Nice List.
I thin that I will alays get back here to see it.

[fungus_mungus]

That's totally tubular! I rely now only on free software because I don't feel like going out and buying programs. Costs too much.

[CornedBee]

Antivirus: ClamAV (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav/), and in particular the Windows front-end ClamWin (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/). Feb 2005 SF.net Project of the Month.

Programmer's Text Editor: jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) - incredibly versatile app.

[dwks]

Crimson editor is nice, but I prefer Context (www.context.cx)

[Rukhan]

WebCam Software: http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ Dorgem :D

[Mad_guy]

GNU Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html): A real mans editor. Has more features than any other editor, ever.
Textpad ("http://www.textpad.com): For people wanting better syntax highlighting and space orientation than emacs minus the 9593475389475210395 features Emacs provides.
Open Watcom (http://www.openwatcom.org): The best free and open source compiler there is. Don't dispute it, it just is, okay?
PHP Designer 2005 (http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php): Maybe the best free PHP editor I've ever seen (note: I've never used Zend Studio.)
Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net): The bittorrent client.
All the software on sysinternals.com (http://www.sysinternals.com): Written by Mark Russinovich, some of the best Windows tools on the market.
STunnel (http://stunnel.sourceforge.net): SSL passthrough layer, you can pass everything you want through Stunnel to get an SSL encrypted session.

[Jaqui]

anything to pdf format:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/panda/

links to linux software ( some commercial apps )

http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/
http://loll.sourceforge.net/ [ all free ]
http://www.linuxlinks.com/

then naturally:
http://freshmeat.net
savannah.gnu.org ( gnu specific sourceforge type site )

system resource monitor:

http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/
** she gets nekkid as the system uses cpu cycles **

( was linux specific, now also has windows port )

[Mad_guy]

More software I have found in my... Journeys (note a lot of these I have known about for quite some time, I just forgot about them):

Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/): Pretty nice development environment.
LePutty (http://leputty.sourceforge.net/): Sweet Windows SSH client.
OpenPERL IDE (http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/): Nice nice PERL environment. Similar to PHP Coder Pro.
PHP Coder Pro (http://www.phpide.com/programs.php): Great PHP environment.
LispWorks (http://www.lispworks.com/): Cool environment for ANSI Common Lisp.
foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.com): Amazing windows media player.
Snort IDS (http://www.snort.org): Only one of the best open source and free IDSs available for a variety of platforms.
CScope (http://cscope.sourceforge.net/): A freakin' sweet C tool for going through source trees. It has a variety of functions and is used by many people (specifically, auditors of source code) on a frequent basis. It can handle the source code for an entire operating system with ease.
Exuberant Ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/): Creates .tag files (which are supported by a wide variety of editors like VIM and Emacs) of a source code file, has support for a multitude of languages like Ruby, C, Perl, and Assembly, et cetera (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/languages.html).
SVN (http://subversion.tigris.org/): Absolutely marvelous source code versioning system. Many people rate it better than CVS.
Ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com/): THE network analyzer. Even used by Cisco. It auto analyzes packets for you and all that fancy jazz, although if you want to learn from the bottom-up, stay away from ethereal for a while.
NetCat (http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/): The Hackers Swiss Army Knife. Comes for NT and regular Unix variants. It can be used for a great deal of purposes, from back doors to saving an entire harddrive (my friend broke a hdd, so he inserted a livecd (german cd INSERT), made an ISO of the harddrive, and streamed it to his laptop with netcat. Not bad eh?)
NASM (http://nasm.sourceforge.net): Only one of the best x86 assemblers out there! Free, open source, easy to use and is quite well known among unix assembly programmers. Intel syntax is used with it.
Nmap (http://www.insecure.org/nmap): the absolute best port scanner out there! Don't let it fool you however, it has an extrodinary amount of features, from stealth scanning (which snort can pick up ;>) all the way to reading TCP timestamps in packets to detect uptime!
PKCrack (http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/krypto/pkcrack.html): You know those passworded archive files? Well, if you have a copy of a file from the archive, PKCrack is the tool to break into that mofo. Providing you have a copy of a file inside the archive, PKcrack can break an archive into a decrypted form in roughtly 10 minutes or so (it took about 10 minutes for me to break one archive as a challenge, some people tried bruting the same zip and their estimated time of accomplishment was something like 4 million years.)
Digital mars C/C++ compiler (http://www.digitalmars.com): The fastest C/C++ compiler I've ever seen, it is extremely lightweight and comes in a command line form. Several tools are included. Beware however, Digital mars does not come with everything that would come with Visual C++ 7. If you want more support for libraries, you have to manually install them.
Resource Hacker (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/): If you need to modify resources on windows (i.e. dialogs,) well, look no further.
SPIKE (http://www.immunitysec.com/resources-freesoftware.shtml) (fuzzer): When people need to know if their clients and servers are secure or not, they turn to the SPIKE. Free and open source, it is definately a powerful auditing tool. The magic of a fuzzer like SPIKE has to be seen before it can be believed, it's hard to really just explain it.
IRSSI (http://www.irssi.org): The best IRC client ever. It is only supported on linux and there are some unofficial windows builds, but it is extremely powerful and lightweight and works on almost every version of linux that has curses support. I only run windows, but I use SSH accounts just so I can use IRSSI. Yeah, I like it that much.
RadASM (http://radasm.visualassembler.com/): Great free studio for a lot of assemblers (fasm, nasm, tasm, masm, etc. etc..)
Plone (http://www.plone.org): A powerful and functional CMS written in Python. It requires the Zope framework. The easy thing about it is this: all you need is to set up Zope (you need to configure almost nothing) and then install Plone. That simple - it's installed. Highly customizable and very secure. Very recommended.
Ruby on Rails (http://rubyonrails.org): Ruby on Rails (or RoR) is a framework written in Ruby for developing web applications with more joy and fun. And it does this well.
Any piece of software by 37signals (http://www.37signals.com) is good if you ask me. Their whole philosophy is software is too complex, so they make more stuff, to do less, on purpose. Personally, I like it. Doesn't matter if you've never heard of them - they're still awesome.
Frostwire (http://www.frostwire.com): basically it's exactly like Limewire, but it doesn't filter your results for things like LimeWire is starting to do.
OllyDBG (http://www.ollydbg.de): Undoubtly the best user mode debugger there is for Windows! It lacks the 'oompf' of SoftICE, and it doesn't have as many amazing disassembly features as IDA Pro, but it definately is an extremely powerful user mode debugger with a wide amount of features and some cool plugins.

OMFG ALMOST FORGOTTEN:
Tor (http://tor.eff.org): Tor is absolutely the best anonymity network currently available. All traffic to and fro when using Tor is theoretically 100% anonymous because of Onion Routing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Routing). Tor keeps no logs and (as much as a lot of conspiracy theorists would like to disagree) is not "one big honeypot for catching hackers." Open source, free, and works like a regular SOCKS5 proxy (which a lot of applications these days offer in their configurations, example: GAIM.) The hit in connection speed is noticable, but it is worth it if you want anonymity.

[jverkoey]

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=324643

Graphics Engines
Ogre 3D (http://www.ogre3d.org/)
Nebula Device (http://www.radonlabs.de/nebula.html)
Haddd (http://www.haddd.com/)
Irrlicht (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/)
Haaf's Game Engine (http://hge.relishgames.com/) (hardware accelerated 2D games engine)

Axiom 3D (http://www.axiom3d.org/) (OGRE for .NET)
TrueVision (http://truevision.sourceforge.net/)
Revolution3D (http://www.revolution3d.net/)
Genesis3D (http://www.genesis3d.com/)
Crystal Space 3D (http://www.crystalspace3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-view_articles.php)
Panda3D (http://panda3d.etc.cmu.edu/)
Quake 2 Source Code (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7547)
Quake 2 (http://www.fileplanet.com/6621/0/fileinfo/Quake-II-Source-Code-v3.21) (complete sources)

Tenebrae (http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/) (Quake with per pixel lights and shaders)
Wild Magic (http://www.geometrictools.com/index.html) (David Eberly's engine)
Apocalyx (http://apocalyx.sourceforge.net/)
ClanLib Game SDK (http://www.clanlib.org/)
DevLib (http://www.devlib-central.org/mambo/)
kjAPI (http://www.kjapi.com/)
Portable Game Library (PLIB) (http://plib.sourceforge.net/)

RealmForge GDK (http://realmforge.com/)
Delta3D (http://delta3d.org/)
G3D (http://g3d-cpp.sourceforge.net/)
NeoEngine (http://www.neoengine.org/)
QuakeForge (http://www.quakeforge.net/)
XEngine (http://xengine.sourceforge.net/)
Yake (http://www.yake.org/)
Kyra Sprite Engine (http://www.grinninglizard.com/kyra/)



Libraries
Free Game Development Libraries (http://abattoir.wolfpaw.net/personal/gamelibs.php) (external list)
Graphics:
Crazy Eddie's GUI system (http://www.cegui.org.uk/modules/news/)
Cal3D (http://cal3d.sourceforge.net/) (character animation library)
GLFW (http://glfw.sourceforge.net/) (OpenGL Framework)

GLee (http://elf-stone.com/glee.php) (OpenGL easy extension library)
DevIL (http://openil.sourceforge.net/)
Game Texture Loader (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=334348)
SDL (http://www.libsdl.org)
Cpw (http://www.mathies.com/cpw/about.html) (another OGL framework)
Allegro (http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/)
Open Scene Graph (http://www.openscenegraph.org/)

Corona (http://corona.sourceforge.net/)
Titan (http://titan.sourceforge.net/)
SFont (http://www.linux-games.com/sfont/)
CxImage (http://www.xdp.it/cximage.htm)
CImg (http://cimg.sourceforge.net/)
FreeImage (http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/)
BMF_Font (http://trenki.gippsbiz.com/bmf/)
BFont (http://www.cs.unibo.it/%7Edbilli/bfont/bfont.html)
FreeType (freetype.sf.net) (font rendering library)

PaintLib (http://www.paintlib.de/paintlib/)
GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net/) (OpenGL extension wrangler library)
gluX
(http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Sylvain.Lefebvre/glux/)GLUT (http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut_downloads.html)
FreeGLUT (http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/)
Open Inventor (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/)
FTGL (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/henryj/code/index.html#FTGL) (OpenGL Font Library

nVidia Scene Graph SDK (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nvsg_home.html)
OpenSG (http://www.opensg.org/)
ParaGUI (http://www.paragui.org/)
LibUFO (http://libufo.sourceforge.net/index.html) (OpenGL GUI Toolkit)
GPUmesh (http://www-evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Sylvain.Lefebvre/GPUmesh/)
GNU Triangulated Surface Library (http://gts.sourceforge.net/)
libASE (http://interreality.org/projects/libase)
lib3DS (http://lib3ds.sourceforge.net/)

GLOD (http://www.cs.jhu.edu/%7Egraphics/GLOD/) (Geometric Level of Detail for OpenGL)
Video:
FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php)
Dirac (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac)
Theora (http://www.theora.org/)
XviD (http://www.xvid.org/)
Networking:
RakNet (http://www.rakkarsoft.com/)

OpenTNL (http://www.opentnl.org/) (Torque network library)
HawkNL (http://www.hawksoft.com/hawknl/)
OpenPlay (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/openplay/)
ReplicaNet (http://www.replicanet.com/)
Game Networking Engine (http://www.rit.edu/%7Ejpw9607/gne/)
Sound:
FMOD (http://www.fmod.org/)
OpenAL (http://www.openal.org/)

Audiere (http://audiere.sourceforge.net/)
BASS (http://www.un4seen.com/)
libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/)
Ogg Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com/)
Physics and Collision:
Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) (http://ode.org/)
Tokamak (http://www.tokamakphysics.com/)
Newton Game Dynamics (http://www.physicsengine.com/)
NovodeX SDK (http://www.ageia.com/novodex.html)

Physical (http://physical.alecrivers.com/)
True Axis (http://www.trueaxis.com/)
Open Dynamics Framework (http://www.physicstools.org/)
ColDet (http://photoneffect.com/coldet/) (Free 3D Collision Detection Library)
Opcode (http://www.codercorner.com/Opcode.htm)
RAPID (http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Egeom/OBB/OBBT.html)
FreeSOLID (http://www.win.tue.nl/%7Egino/solid/index.html)
V-Collide (http://www.cs.unc.edu/%7Egeom/V_COLLIDE/)

Scripting and XML:
Lua (http://www.lua.org/)
AngelScript (http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/)
CInt (http://root.cern.ch/root/Cint.html)
EOS (http://eosscript.sourceforge.net/)
GameMonkey Script (http://www.somedude.net/gamemonkey/)
Guile (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html)
IO (http://www.iolanguage.com/about/)
javascript (http://www.mozilla.org/js/)

Squirrel (http://squirrel.sourceforge.net/)
Small (http://www.compuphase.com/small.htm)
Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/)
Python (http://www.python.org/)
Tcl (http://tcl.sourceforge.net/)
Perl (http://www.perl.com/)
LibXML (http://xmlsoft.org/)
TinyXML (http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/)
Expat (http://expat.sourceforge.net/)

Apache XML libraries (http://xml.apache.org/)
ezXML (http://ezxml.sourceforge.net/)
Compression and File Systems:
zlib (http://www.zlib.net/)
bzip2 (http://www.bzip.org/)
LZMA SDK (http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html)
LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/)
PhysicsFS (http://icculus.org/physfs/)
#ZipLib (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/) (native C# archive library)

SharpFS (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=391656) (native C# VFS)
unrarlib (http://www.unrarlib.org/)
ZipArchive (http://www.artpol-software.com/index_zip.html)

Note: Much of the above lists (but not all) were taken from this page (http://abattoir.wolfpaw.net/personal/gamelibs.php), maintained by Kylotan here (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=291432).

Applications and Utilities:

Development Environments:
Code::Blocks IDE (http://www.codeblocks.org/)
Dev-C++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)
Visual Studio 2005 betas (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/)
SharpDevelop (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/)
ActivePython (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/)
Graphics Development:
gDEBugger (http://www.gremedy.com/)
FX Composer (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/fx_composer_home.html)

RenderMonkey (http://www.ati.com/developer/rendermonkey/)
NVIDIA SDK (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/sdk_home.html)
ATI Radeon SDK (http://www.ati.com/developer/radeonSDK.html)
DirectX Developer Center (http://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/)
NVIDIA Cg (http://developer.nvidia.com/page/cg_main.html)
Sh (http://libsh.org/) (shader language)
Modeling:
SoftImage|XSI Mod Tool (http://www.softimage.com/community/xsi_mod_tool/default.aspx)

Milkshape 3D (http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/) (not free, $25)
Wings 3D (http://www.wings3d.com/)
Blender (http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html)
Anim8or (http://www.anim8or.com/)
DeleD (http://www.delgine.com/index.php?filename=product_deled&amp;menus=off)
World Building:
Quake Army Knife (QuArK) (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Equark/)
GtkRadiant (http://www.qeradiant.com/)

Getic3D (http://www.zalsoft.com/index.php)
Audio:
ModPlug (http://www.modplug.com/)
Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
SynthEdit (http://www.synthedit.com/)
Buzz Machines (http://www.buzzmachines.com/)
KVR Audio (http://www.kvraudio.com/) (not actually software, but has tons of links)
Images:

Paint.NET (excellent free image editor)
(http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/)The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
BMFont (http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/) (font texture generator)

Media
Textures:
Transmogrifying Textures Vol. I (NVIDIA) (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/IO_TTVol_01.html)
Mayang's Free Textures (http://www.mayang.com/textures/)

3D Cafe's Free Textures (http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/textures.asp)
Absolute Background Textures Archive (http://www.grsites.com/textures/)
Image * After (http://www.imageafter.com/)
Media Link's Free Backgrounds and Textures (http://my.erinet.com/%7Ecunning1/textures.htm)
Free Game Textures (http://www.vb3d.com/Textures.html)
Seamless Textures -- Absolute Cross (http://www.absolutecross.com/graphics/textures/)
3D Millenium Free Textures (http://www.m3corp.com/a/download/3d_textures/pages/index.htm)
Pixel Poke (http://www.pixelpoke.com/FREE%20PIXELS.html)
The Texture Studio (http://www.planethalflife.com/studio/)

Textures (http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/%7Epbourke/texture/)
Marlin Studios (http://www.marlinstudios.com/samples/samples.htm)
Free Foto (http://www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=33-00-0)
Free Textures (http://www.noctua-graphics.de/english/freetex_e.htm)
Free Textures (http://www.indiaeye.com/free.htm)
MorgueFile (http://www.morguefile.com/)
Psionic3D (http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/)
Models:
3D Millenium Free Models (http://www.m3corp.com/a/download/models/index.htm)

Polycount (http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/)
Marlin Studios (http://www.marlinstudios.com/samples/samples.htm)
Free 3D Model Collections (http://www.amazing3d.com/modfree.html)
Free 3D Models (http://www.rocky3d.com/free3d.htm)
Digital Animators Models (http://www.digitalanimators.com/HTM/Resources/3dModels/3dModelsMain.htm)
Psionic3D (http://www.psionic3d.co.uk/)
Sprites
This thread has lots...and lots...and lots... (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=272386)
Sounds:

SFX and Music Resources (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=279518) (another long GDNet post)
Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/us/) (Creative Commons licensed music)
A1 Free Sound Effects (http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm)
Sound Effects (http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html)
Tintagel's Free Sound File Archive (http://freesoundfiles.tintagel.net/Audio/)
Free Sound Effects (http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html)
Sound Hunter (http://www.soundhunter.com/)

Wav Sound Complete Archive (http://www.members.tripod.com/%7Ebuggerluggs/ie/wav-dir184.htm)
deusX Sound Design (http://www.deusx.com/studio.html)
FindSounds (http://www.findsounds.com/) (sound search engine)
Absolute Sound Effects Archive (http://www.grsites.com/sounds/)

[p_m63]

Probably the finest free open-source CAD application there is and it isnt on the list:

http://www.brlcad.org

[maxorator]

Best Text Editor... ever...
http://www.crimsoneditor.com

It has support for nearly every programming/web/scripting language you could think of
(Syntax colors and spacing)

asm, c/c++, java, php, html, batch files, unrealscript, fortran, basic, z80 asm, all kinds of crap.

You can also create your own.
I prefer Notepad++, because it is CLEAN. Crimson Editor wastes so much room on the screen for useless things.

[jafet]

truecrypt.org -- Excellent file encryption utility, wonderful ease of use. You can mount an entire encrypted archive as a virtual disk drive and access the contained files normally.

[maxorator]

I don't really see the point of encrypting things on my own computer. It is a lot of mess and is not very useful.

[Wraithan]

Depends on your computer... I don't encrypt anything on my desktop, but I do encrypt some stuff on my laptop. Because my laptop is like 100 times more likely to get stolen.

[Meshal]

so cool ,

[citizen]

Don't think anyone has mentioned these:
Foxit Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php): Yet another Adobe Acrobat alternative.

RegSeeker (http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm): for your Window's registry issues.

[Bajanine]

I can't believe OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/) isn't listed!

[Bash]

I personally LOVE Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm)

[dwks]

Here is some software that I use at the moment, just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Note: everything mentioned here is free software; most of it under the GNU GPL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html), most of the rest under even less restrictive licenses, and all of it meets the Debian Free Software Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract) and thus likely also falls under the Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php).

If you haven't already, you should try make and a debugger. They're absolutely essential. The names vary depending on what compiler you are using, but for GCC/g++, it's "make" and "gdb" (the GNU Debugger).

Some general programming software that I use under Linux (but works on other platforms unless otherwise noted).

Valgrind (valgrind.org): an excellent tool for detecting memory leaks, buffer overruns, and other errors of the sort. (Linux only.)
Kate (kate.kde.org), KDevelop (kdevelop.org): Very nice IDEs for KDE (specifically, Qt, which means you could probably run them under Windows as well).
Doxygen (doxygen.org): takes your source code and generates documentation. Works best if you write special Doxygen comments, but you can use any source code written in C, C++, or Java (and maybe other languages as well).

I know it has already been mentioned, but version control systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control) are essential. Here are some of them, as well as related programs.

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) (cvshome.org): once (and possibly still) the most widely-used version control system. It's basically a front end to RCS (http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/) that supports multiple files.
Subversion (SVN) (subversion.tigris.org): a very nice version control system that supposively fixes some of CVS's issues. For example, versions are project-wide, so you don't have to compile main.c version 1.4 with network.c version 1.7.
Kompare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompare): the nicest (graphically) diff program I've ever come across. Check out the screenshot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kompare.png) in Wikipedia and you'll see what I mean.
kdesvn (http://kdesvn.alwins-world.de/): the graphical client for subversion that I use, based on RapidSVN (rapidsvn.tigris.org), but there are many of them out there. Makes using a version control system easier.

Do free libraries count? If so, some SDL ones, which are all written in C and thus work with C natively and are easy to use in C++:

SDL (libsdl.org): a portable, cross-platform graphics and sound and I/O library. It contains all you need to write a graphics application such as a game, and your resulting program runs almost anywhere, from Windows 98 to 64-bit Linux to Mac OS X. (Believe me, I've tried it on all three.)
SDL libraries list (http://libsdl.org/libraries.php?order=name&category=-1&completed=0&os=-1&match_name=&perpage=-1): a huge list of libraries compatible with the SDL. The search option only lets you search titles, however, so I find it's best to display all results (which my link does) and use your browser's search feature.
SDL_image (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image): with this, you can open images in almost any format. Let's see; it supports BMP, GIF, JPEG, LBM, PCX, PNG, PNM, TGA, TIFF, XCF, XPM, and XV. It's really easy to use, too. You just call IMG_Load(filename), and it figures out the type of the file etc.
SDL_ttf (http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf): TrueType fonts for the SDL. You can load ordinary fonts like FreeMono.ttf (Linux) or Courier New (Windows). The resulting text looks much better than bitmap fonts. It's a bit difficult to use, but the result is worth it.
SDL_gfx (http://www.ferzkopp.net/joomla/content/view/19/14/): support for drawing graphics primitives such as: lines, circles, polygons, ellipses, pies, in normal, anti-aliased (smoothed), and filled modes (and sometimes anti-aliased filled, too). Also supports image rotating and scaling or zooming. It also has other features that I've never figured out.


I can't recommend any particular GUI library for the SDL, because I like to write my own. But there are many. Search the libraries list above for a few. Or see:

The GUI Toolkit (http://www.free-soft.org/guitool/): a very comprehensive list of GUI libraries. It's tough to read, but you probably won't find a more complete list anywhere:

[Perspective]

>Kompare: the nicest (graphically) diff program I've ever come across.


Meld (http://meld.sf.net) is also a pretty sweet diff front end. It lets you click sections of the file back and fourth when merging.

[mthemapc]

good job, very helpful

[abh!shek]

The firebird link took me to an irrelevant page. Hair products--hair shampoo, hair jewelery,hair loss solutions etc.

[dwks]

Meld is also a pretty sweet diff front end. It lets you click sections of the file back and fourth when merging.
Hmm, Meld's directory diff (http://meld.sourceforge.net/meld_dir4.png) also looks pretty nice. I might have a look at it. :)

Firebird is really just an old name for Firefox, as far as I can tell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox
The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement name, Firebird, provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project.[8][9][10] In response, the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server's development community forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox,[11] often referred to as simply Firefox and Mozilla prefers it be abbreviated as Fx or fx.[12]
Everywhere there are references to firebird (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/technologist/archives/mozilla-firebird-web-browser-212), they just turn out to be references to Firefox . . . . I'm pretty sure that the Mozilla web browser briefly became Firebird and then was renamed to Firefox. (I have old versions of this web browser that call themselves "Mozilla Web Browser" or some such, no "fire" anywhere.)

In short: try Firefox. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

I had completely forgotten that I had posted in this thread, believe it or not. :) Anyway, here are some other programs that I'm using at the moment:

Software that came with GCC that you never knew you had:

gprof (http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/as/gprof_toc.html) (part of GCC): the GNU profiler. It's a very nice way to figure out what really needs optimising, though I can't get it to work very well for SDL programs . . . SDL_BlitSurface() takes 100% of the time, apparently. :)
gcov (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html) (also part of GCC): a program to test code coverage. It lets you figure out what really gets executed, and what doesn't, and how often.


Also: Linux. Get Linux and you'll get so much free software you can do almost anything . . . I use Debian, but that's just because I like its package management system. ;)