Free Alternatives to Everyday Software Replace Your Programs with Open Source Versions

Karl Beecher: Hello and welcome to this video entitled Free Everyday Software Alternatives. My name’s Karl Beecher, and in this video, I’ll be taking you through what the open source world has to offer you. We’re going to look at what it’s like to move from proprietary to open source software. We’ll look at both the general issues that are involved as well as specific programs that can replace your lineup of proprietary software.

Accordingly, this video is split into two parts. In part one, we’ll cover the following. First, we’ll see what your various options are for obtaining opensource software. Of course, once you have the software, you’ll need to make sure all your existing data can be moved over, so we’ll learn about that too. Then we’ll look at what’s available in terms of support, things like training, documentation, installation, and et cetera. At the full and looking at how you keep your open source software up to date. Part two, we’ll look at several of the most common domains of software and turn and reveal which open source programs are available in that domain as well as the benefits you might derive or challenges you might face when switching to one of those programs. Specifically, the domain we’ll see are: internet browsing, email, messengers, office software, file sharing, multimedia and operating systems.

I’m going to assume that you’ve already seen in the previous video in this series called A Beginner’s Guide to Open Source, or you’re at least familiar with the basic terminology of software and open source. Otherwise, feel free to check out that video first, and so I look forward to seeing you in part one.