Tell me all the cool and free software in the following catagories!?

* Accessibility
* Development
* Games
* Graphics & Pictures
* Internet
* Music & Video
* Office
* Operating Systems
* Utilities

Accessibility - Usually bundles with a desktop system; I don't know of any free Windows accessibility programs.

Development - Bloodshed C++

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

Games - Battle for Wesnoth, Sauerbraten, Secret Maryo Chronicles.

http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://sauerbraten.org/
http://www.secretmaryo.org/

Graphics - GIMP, Paint.NET

http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.getpaint.net/

Internet - Pidgin, Firefox, Flock

http://www.pidgin.im/
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://flock.com/

Music and Video -

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverk...

Office - OpenOffice

http://www.openoffice.org/

Operating systems - Linux (duh!), FreeBSD, Solaris 10, AROS, Syllable, Haiku, KolibriOS, FreeDOS.

http://www.linux.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/inde...
http://aros.sourceforge.net/
http://web.syllable.org/pages/index.html
http://www.haiku-os.org/
http://kolibrios.org/
http://www.freedos.org/

Utilities - WinDirStat, GParted, D-BAN

http://windirstat.info/
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Graphics & Pictures - Paint shop pro 9, or photoshop 7. (you have to search alot to get the full trial. but there are plently of 30-day trials out there that are easy to find.)

Internet - Mozilla Firefox. (Although I like Internet Explorer 10 better, everyone recommends to use Mozilla because it protects your computer from viruses.)

Music and Video - Winamp player.

Games - Well, it depends if you like shooting games or interracting and fun games. Here are some that you may like: Gunz, Maplestory, Gunbound, Crazy Arcade.

Office - Words/Powerpoint/Publisher/etc... 2007.

* Development -- gcc with Geany or emacs or Kate, visual studio express.

* Games

* Graphics & Pictures -- GIMP, pirated Photoshop

* Internet - Firefox, Opera, Ktorrent, Thunderbird.

* Music & Video -- Kaffine, mplayer, Amarok!

* Office - Open Office

* Operating Systems -- Linux

1. not sure
2. not sure
3. free games suck, all the cool games have to be bought
4. gimp and google picasa
5. firefox, pidgin, skype, opera
6. mplayer, vlc, amarok, kaffeine
7. openoffice
8. opensuse linux and freeBSD Unix
9. kate, kwrite, khexedit

Two great web sites will answer your questions:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/dr/

or

http://mike.dutch.home.comcast.net

Internet-AVG Free is the best free antivirus software out there.
Music and Video-VLC player as it plays al types of files.