Suggested Free Software

Below is a list of suggested free software for anyone to use. This is also the solution for users who are not eligible for campus software on their personal computers. Note: ITS and AT will not provide support for these software. They are for yourself to download and install.

Legend:
W:  MS Windows
M:  Apple Mac OS X
L:  Ubuntu Linux  (or Linux Mint)

Antivirus
W: Microsoft Security Essentials - http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials
M: Sophos for Mac Home Edition (free) - http://www.sophos.com
L: ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net

Office Suite
W/M/L: LibreOffice - http://www.libreoffice.org

Desktop Publishing
W/M/L: Scribus - http://www.scribus.net

PDF Creation (basic)
W: doPDF - http://www.dopdf.com
M/L: built-in

PDF Reader
W/M/L: Adobe Reader - http://get.adobe.com/reader

Web Browser Alternatives
W/M/L: Google Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome
W/M/L: Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com
W/M: Apple Safari  -  http://www.apple.com/safari

Web Authoring
W/M/L: BlueGriffon - http://bluegriffon.org 
W/M/L: Mozilla SeaMonkey - http://www.seamonkey-project.org
W/M/L: Amaya - http://www.w3.org/amaya

Java Runtime
W/L: Sun Java Runtime Edition (JRE) - http://java.com
M (Snow Leopard): built-in
M (Lion): Apple Java for Lion - http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1421

Web Flash Player
W/M/L: Adobe Flash - http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer

Media Player (plays almost all formats)
W/M/L: VLC Player - http://videolan.org

Image Editor (easy and quick use)
W: Paint.NET - http://www.getpaint.net
W/M: Google Picasa - http://picasa.google.com
W/M/L: Pinta! - http://pinta-project.com (requires Gtk# Win or Mono Mac)

Image Editor (Photoshop-like use)
W/M/L: the GIMP - http://www.gimp.org

CD/DVD Burning
W: CDBurnerXP - http://cdburnerxp.se
M: Burn - http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net
L: Brasero - http://projects.gnome.org/brasero

Subtitles Creator
W: Subtitle Workshop - http://www.urusoft.net/products.php?lang=1
M: Subs Factory - http://subsfactory.traintrain-software.com/index.php?langue=en
M: Belle Nuit Subtitler - http://www.belle-nuit.com/Belle_Nuit_Subtitler&lang=en
L:

Advanced File Uncompress/Compress (zip, 7z, etc)
W: 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org
M: The Unarchiver - http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
L: built-in

Cleaning and Optimizing
W: CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com
M: Onyx - http://www.titanium.free.fr/index_us.html
L:

Virtualization (running OS inside OS)
W/M/L: Oracle VirtualBox - http://www.virtualbox.org

Text Editor Alternatives
W: Notepad++ - http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
M: built-in (TextEdit)
L: Bluefish  -  http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Apps Update Checker
W: FileHippo - http://www.filehippo.com
W/M: cNet TechTracker - http://www.cnet.com/techtracker
L: built-in

Other Useful Apps:
WordWeb Free for Win - http://wordweb.info/free
Google Earth for all Operating Systems - http://earth.google.com