Good FOSS Win32 apps (was: Writing FOSS for Win32...)

[David J Berube]

 > Audacity often gets recommended to podcasters and they never need to get
 > another app.  Imagine if The Gimp came out & got estabilished before
 > Photoshop?

Keep in mind, though even older versions of Photoshop have features that 
Gimp does not. Gimp, however, is an *excellent* replacement for Paint 
Shop Pro and similar software for, say, light web design or photo 
retouching. (It does have some features that Photoshop does not, of 
course  - easy scripting in Python/Ruby/etc, IIRC.)

Audacity is in a similar situation: it's great for simple things, like 
podcasting, but it's not Pro Tools. (Ardour is getting there, but it's 
not Pro Tools yet either.)

Take it easy

David Berube
Berube Consulting
djberube at berubeconsulting.com
(603)-485-9622
http://www.berubeconsulting.com/

Tom Buskey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
> 
>> This has a number of apps that I use pretty regularly, including the
>> as-yet-unmentioned Pidgin (IM client), Audacity (audio recording/editing)
>> and VLC (movie/media player).
>>
> 
> M-Audio has a portable device for recording  sound for podcasts.  It saves
> to mp3 or wav.  Included with it is a copy of Audacity for Windows.  I
> remember the apps bundled with Soundblaster for DOS that could never get any
> better and no one else used.
> 
> 
> 
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