[ILUG] the killer free software app for joe public

[Ciaran Johnston]

Paul Askins said:
> Sure wasn't it "Ciaran O'Riordan" <ciaran at member.fsf.org>
> sometime around 08 Apr 2004 14:09:14 +0100 said:
>>
>> [0] last time I checked, gimp for win32 crashed a lot.  Blender is
>> another candidate, but it's not very mainstream.
>>
> I use gimp on WinXP here at work quite a bit and have never run into any
> problems with it, no more than any other Windows app that is.  At the
> very least, it would show that there are alternatives to
> Photoshop/Paintshop Pro that are every bit as good without costing an
> arm and a leg.

I'll second that. I have it on Windows 2000 here at work, and had few
problems. I also have xemacs installed, tcl python and perl, Ethereal,
RealVNC, cygwin, nmap-win, FabForce DBDesigner, syn editor. That's what I
can find at the minute. Can provide URLs if required.

/Ciaran.