Bangalore: Although the premium versions of the softwares are usually the best ones for the particular task, they are licensed and have to be brought if you want to use it. They consume more disk space too.

To help you budget consciously make use of technology, we bring you the list of 10 free, alternative softwares as reported by Karan Bajaj and Hitesh Raj Bhagat for Economic Times.

1. Ubuntu

Category: Operating system

Ubuntu is an open source operating system that is easy to use. It is one of the most popular among the hundreds of Linux based OS. It has low hardware requirements and can run from a USB drive or DVD. There are built-in softwares like document editing software, a chat client, email client and multimedia player. Most popular apps like Skype, Audacity, Google Chrome are available for Ubuntu.

When compared to the paid OS, the least expensive among MS Windows 7 is its home edition costing 6,000. This edition does not include multi-touch support, Windows Media Centre, Windows XP mode and multiple language support.

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