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Hello forum.
Seeing that marble_fx once published a Freeware Initiative and harvested a good number of free little programs (and the last update was in 2006 xD), I propose to make a similar list but with open source and cross-platform software.
You already know that I am a 'classic Linux user', and these two years of Mac have led me to search for specific penguin programs on OS X, so I already know several listings and many programs that have a community, are active and will work on any machine we set up.
What do you think? I'll give you a few classics, if you like the idea I'll take care of sprucing up this post a bit and leave a cool directory with basic info and personal recommendations:
Video
Audio
Design
Layout
P.D.: I praise Firefox because it had left the preview of this message when I looked at an email, I started closing tabs and when I saw that I hadn't published the entry I realized that, not only had I not clicked 'Submit new discussion' but I had jumped to other posts from that tab :facepalm: A couple of CTRL+SHIFT+TAB and a couple of 'back' later and here we are as if nothing had gone away. It will consume all the memory it wants, but handling the history that way saved me from rewriting all these lines because of my stupidity ;D
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For audio, a "pro" sequencer with all the bells and whistles and good performance, there's Reaper which at least used to have a non-commercial version (free if it's not for making money). It's for Mac and Windows but not for Linux. On Linux, Ubuntu Studio also has quite a few "pro" features, I was told that they are modular systems that you link instead of having plug-ins managed by a sequencer. I was also told that some things sound pretty good, others not so much...
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For audio, a "pro" sequencer with all the bells and whistles and good performance, there's Reaper which at least used to have a non-commercial version (free if it's not for making money). It's for Mac and for Windows but not for Linux. On Linux, Ubuntu Studio also has quite a few "pro" features, I was told that they are modular systems that you link instead of having plug-ins managed by a sequencer. They also told me that there are some things that sound pretty good, others not so much…
I didn't know about Reaper, thanks for the info. Anyway, I'm not including it because I plan to do individual posts (I don't know if here in the forum or on a blog) for each application, with tutorials for specific tasks (a project to recycle colleagues who have no idea about Free Software) and I need them to be cross-platform. Being Open Source is already something more 'ideological' but in case it's not, it should have a non-restrictive license and an independent community (even if it's within the same 'closed' ecosystem, I'm thinking now about some CAD alternatives), and always preferring 100% FLOSS alternatives if possible.
