A new project…

OpenDisc is a high qualiy collection of open source software (OSS) for
the Microsoft Windows operating system. The two main goals of the
project are:
* To provide a free alternative to costly software, with
equal or often better quality equivalents to proprietary, shareware or
freeware software for Microsoft Windows.
* To educate users of Linux
as an operating system for home, business and educational use.

You can find a list of the
software here. Although a lot of the tools are pretty much what is
expected, some that jumped out at me include the following:

• Abakt is a
  flexible backup tool for Windows that protects your valuable data.
  Using a combination of advanced filters you can select files,
  directories or whole drives to compress, copy or move. You can even
  automate the process for future backups.
• HTTrack is an easy-to-use
  offline web browser utility. It allows you to download a web site from
  the Internet to a local directory on your computer, building a perfect
  mirror for your personal use. Simply open a page of the website in
  your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you
  were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored
  site, and resume interrupted downloads.
• MoinMoinWiki (Desktop
  Edition): A wiki is a tool that allows many users to collaborate on
  generating and organising content. A wiki is usually hosted on the web
  so that different people can connect through their web browsers to
  collaborate. However you can also use a wiki locally on your own
  computer to help you stay organised, structuring your information with
  categories, sub-pages and hyper-links, just like on the web. You can
  even create attachments to your pages, like pictures or word
  processing documents you are working on for a specific project.
• WinSCP is a fully featured SFTP
  (Secure File Transfer Protocol) client. Its main function is the
  secure file transfer between a local and a remote computer. It fully
  supports Secure Shell (SSH) and in addition to SFTP, the legacy SCP
  protocol.

I’m not sure that the complete list of what goes on OpenDisc would be MY
choice of software, but…hey, that’s the beauty of having your own
project. I’ll have to work on my updated list of tools. It’s nice to
know that some of the tools are ones I hadn’t seen before, such as Abakt
and WinSCP.

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