Please Add To List Of 'Must Have' Open Source Dev Tools?

Question

I want to make a short list of those Open Source or free apps which make a developer's live very much easier. Not a massive exhaustive list (for my site - http://www.nerds-central.com, and not things like script engines and compilers. Just the 'must have grab bag'. It is Windows a centric. Here is where I have gotten so far:

msys
ultra vnc
notepad++
gimp
Process Explorer (procexp)
firefox
gvim
jmeter
skype
putty
filezilla
inkscape
wincvs
windump
netcat

Once I have the list all worked out, I'll crate links to where to get them, a quick review and 'why use it' section.

Why - because I always trying to support people on the phone or Skype and need to have a page where I can say - get these then call back and I can help properly :)

Any suggestions welcome - for example - is XMLPad any good?

Thanks - AJ
http://www.nerds-central.com

Answer 1

Well, you can add GAIM to that list for one. Also, don't forget decent free antivirus programs like AVG or Avast - there are too many suckers using Norton or McAffee around today.
NVU's quite nice for HTML editing.
You might also want to check out portableapps.com - they have a bunch of open-source programs you can run from a Flash drive.
This is a very useful little program which, again, can be launched from a flash drive - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml.
Good luck!