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Openoffice.org is a comprehensive office suite that compares well with Microsoft® Offiice.
"OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose."
“AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. “
Scribus brings award-winning professional desk-top publishing page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
“The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.”
This is mindmapping software taken to its logical conclusion. An excellent planning tool!
Freemind is a high productivity, high quality, mind-mapping tool, useful in schools for project planning and development.
Probably the best web-browser in the world. Tabs, extensions, pop-up blocking, themes and more.
Powerful and versatile email client. Add the lightning extension to give you a powerful Calendar as well.
Easy web authoring
KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.
KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
OOo4Kids is OpenOffice.org but restyled to make it easier for younger kids. It includes: a word processor, a drawing program, a presentation editor and a spreadsheet, with which kids aged between 7 and 12, can produce their homework and at the same time, learn about using computers and software.
