Open Source Alternatives
 

This has probably been done elsewhere :)

But:- have you seen a list of replacement(s) for those proprietary apps

here's mine:-

http://shengchieh.50webs.com/tuxslinks.html

Damn dude, thanks for that! That has a lot of links..... :p

I was going to jump in and suggest www.osalt.com but that's a hell of an impressive collection of useful stuff!