List of suggested freeware on Windows

Type Freeware URL Can replace
C/C++ Compilers DJGPP http://www.djgpp.com Visual C/C++
Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com
(De)Compression Utility Power Archiver http://www.powerarchiver.com Win Zip
7-zip
http://www.7-zip.org
Document Typesetting MikTeX http://www.miktex.org PcTeX
fpTeX http://www.fptex.org
Lyx http://www.lyx.org
Download accelerator MyGetRight http://www.mygetright.com GetRight
Email client
Thunderbird
http://www.mozilla.org
Outlook, Eudora
FTP client Smart FTP http://www.smartftp.com CuteFTP
WS_FTP Limited Ed. http://www.wsftp.com
HTML script editor 1st page 2006 http://www.evrsoft.com FrontPage
nvu http://nvu.com
Image Manipulation Program GIMP http://www.gimp.org Paint Shop Pro
DIA
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
Visio
Office OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org MS Office
Scientific Software Octave http://www.octave.org Matlab
Maxima http://maxima.sourceforge.net Mathematica
Secure Connection Software PuTTY (ssh) http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
PieTTY (ssh) http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~piaip/pietty
SSH SecureShell 3.2.9 (ssh/sftp) http://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/hkbu-csd/SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe
WinSCP (sftp) http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
PS and PDF interpreter/ viewer Ghostscript/Ghostview http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost
Telnet utility SimpTerm hujianq@xtreme2.acc.iit.edu Netterm
Tera Term http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
AbsoluteTelnet http://www.celestialsoftware.net/telnet/
Viewing/Inputting Chinese character MView Pro http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/7228/ RichWin
Virtual Machine(Desktop) Software MS Virtual PC 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx VMware Workstation
VMware Player http://downloads.vmware.com/d/
VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Virtual Machine(Server) Software MS Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/default.aspx VMware ESX
VMware ESXi http://downloads.vmware.com/d/
VMware Server http://downloads.vmware.com/d/
Virtual Network Computing Vnc http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc Exceed
Web Browser Netscape http://www.netscape.com Internet Explorer
Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org
Safari
http://www.apple.com/safari

With compliment to Department of Computer Science, HKBU for permission to extract information from the suggested free and unlimited use software (HKBU access only) in their homepage.


Prepared by Morris Law, Updated by Eric Yuen, Science Faculty   Last update : March 5, 2010