Additional Software

For additional software some excellent sources of free and open-souce software are•Tucows http://www.tucows.com/ a downloads site with freeware, shareware, open-source aswell as commercial software. It has many mirrors all over the world for speedy downloads fromlocal servers.•SourceForge http://www.sourceforge.net/ a site featuring many OpenSource projects. You canstart your own, or get software for almost every need. Most projects have GNU and Windowsversions.


The mirror system isn't as large as Tucows, but you can still usually get a mirror onthe same continent.•Table of equivalents http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml can be useful ifyou want to know more about specific programs when changing from windows to GNU orvice-versa.