Free Software for Windows from Linux

The movement started by RMS is going very strong for last 23 years and is gaining strength every day. The movement to provide the software free of cost
The GNU movement has spread to all parts of world and now with lot of vendors to choose from , the application development and acceptance of linux system has increased many folds.

Now the free softwares are available for windows platform.

OPEN SOURCE CHATTING CLIENTS- :)

Pidgin (formerly Gaim)
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once

pidgin 2.02 is available for download

aMSN-A MSN compatible messenger application .
aMSN is written in TCL/TK

aMSN 0.97 RC1-1 s available for downloading


XCHAT- XChat is IRC chat program
It allows you to join multiple IRC channels



XCHAT version 2.8.5a is available for downloading






WEB BROWSERS-

Firefox -The world's best browser. free and open-source browser. along with extensions,pop-up blocking, themes, multiple Tabs.



Firefox version 2.0.0.5 is available for downloading



K-meleon -K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform




kmeleon version 1.1 is available for download



BrowseX -it provides a small, multi-windowed, frames capable browser with fast HTML rendering

Browsex version 2.0.0 is available for download


MUSIC and VIDEO players-

VLC- VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...)




VLC version 0.8.6.c is available for download



MPLAYER-MPlayer plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia,YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.


MPLAYER version 1.0RC1 is available for download



ZINF- The Zinf audio player plays MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD playback, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming, RTP streaming, a powerful music browser, theme support and a download manager.


ZINF version 2.2.1 is available for download



Media Player classic-MPC has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player); built-in MPEG2 /SVCD/DVD codec



MPC version 6.4.9.0 is available for download


FILE SHARING


ARES P2P-Ares is a free open source file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, software, documents, etc



ARES version 2.0.0.9 is available for download


Shareaza P2P -It can harness the power of up to four separate peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, including ,bittorrent,Gnutella , edonkey2000 and Shareaza's native network, Gnutella2 (G2).


SHAREAZA version 2.2.5.0 Beta is available for download


AZUREUS-Azureus is a Java-based BitTorrent client, with support for I2P and Tor anonymous communication protocols



Azureus version 2.5 is available for download


eMule- Clients use several networks to create one reliable network.
(ED2K, Source Exchange, Kad)





eMule version v0.48a is available for download