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Best Open source software’s for Windows Vista

Web Browsing 

Mozilla Firefox

The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world’s best browser.

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Video Player / Video Podcasting 

Miro

Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than windows media player). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.

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IM – Instant Messaging 

Pidgin

Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.

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Email

Mozilla Thunderbird

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.

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RSS

FeedReader

Simple, lightweight aggregator.

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RSSOwl

Solid cross-platform RSS client.

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Peer-to-Peer Filesharing 

Cabos

A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.

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Gnucleus

A very good Gnutella search and download filesharing program.

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Azureus

A powerful, but complicated BitTorrent client. So many features you’ll lose your mind.

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Video Playback 

VLC

Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.

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MPlayer

Similar to VLC– plays loads of video formats.

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Media Player Classic

Compact, but powerful media player. Plays anything under the sun. No install necessary.

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DVD Ripping / Video Conversion 

Media Coder

Great tool for ripping CDs, DVDs, etc and converting between tons of video formats.

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Word Processing / Office Suites

OpenOffice.org

Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.

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AbiWord

A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.

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Podcasting

Juice

Solid podcasting client.

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DVD Ripping 

Handbrake

DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.

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Sound Recording 

Audacity

Simple sound recording tool.

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Graphics / Photo Editing 

GIMPShop

Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features.

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Paint.net

Graphics editor with a very nice interface.

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Inkscape

Vector graphics application.

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FTP / SFTP 

Filezilla

Excellent FTP program.

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IRC

X-Chat 2

IRC client.

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