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These are some of my favourite applications for Linux/BSD, Mac and Windows. All these applications are free of charge, some are open source projects. I've also included what operating systems I used these programs in brackets for ones that aren't obvious.

Terminal Stuff

Favourite in category: Terminator (Gnome)

This is a cool little program that is very handy if you use a lot of command terminals. You can split the screen into as many terminal windows as you want, you can have multiple tabs with different groups of windows and you can maximise and zoom a single terminal window to full screen which is useful when doing demonstrations. More screenshots can be found on the project website.

Runners Up:

Guake (Gnome) / Yakuake (KDE)

Screen (Terminal Multiplexer App)
OpenSSH / PuTTY (Windows)

Dedicated Distributions

Favourite in category: pfSense

This Disribution is a FreeBSD based dedicated firewall/router device that is used on commodity hardware. I started using pfSense after I was left unsatisfied with the configurable options on Smoothwall Express and I was blown away too see all the advanced features in pfSense. pfSense is based on m0n0wall which is also a good firewall if not a little on the simple side for me.

Runners Up:

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