Free software/External Links

General Portals
Unesco free software portal    info about and links to free software.

Download.com  http://www.download.com/windows/   Find lots of stuff here. You can search for many of the software listed here, and see how popular or well rated they are.

The Free Software Foundation  http://www.fsf.org/    The directory   http://directory.fsf.org/   has lots of software, but probably lots of technical stuff. The GNU project  http://www.gnu.org/   also links to the same directory.

Open Source Alternatives  http://www.osalt.com/   lists open source alternatives to commercial software.

Idealware  http://www.idealware.org/   provides candid Consumer-Reports-style reviews and articles about software of interest to nonprofits.

International Open Source Network, http://www.iosn.net/   stuff about open source. See FOSS general, then software. I think the portal to software is here  http://www.iosn.net/foss/software/

International Free and Open Source Software Foundation   http://www.ifossf.org/    actually, I'm not sure what this is, whether it has software or not. But it seems like an interesting organization.

101 Fantastic Freebies  http://www.pcworld.com/article/143642/101_fantastic_freebies.html   March 2008  lists a lot of downloads, some of which are listed here, like AbiWord

Best free software  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2260070,00.asp   from Feb 2008. Briefly mentions many software, like Lotus Symphony and others.