This Digg article has a bunch of very popular free software packages. Some of them like Firefox and OpenOffice are well known. Others are not. I regularly use Azureus, the very powerful BitTorrent client. It is Java based and I have used both Windows and Linux clients. The other one is Scribus. Scribus is an Open Source software package that provides functionality similar to PageMaker and Microsoft Publisher. It works very well in combination with other Open Source graphics products like Gimp and InkScape. It has a few built-in templates but many more are available from other web sites.

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