Essential Free/Open Source Software
Fedora GNU/Linux distribution http://fedoraproject.org/
Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution http://www.ubuntu.com/
Firefox Web browser Linux/Windows http://getfirefox.com/
Thunderbird Email client Linux/Windows http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
Pidgin Instant messenger Linux/Windows http://www.pidgin.im/
OpenOffice.org Office suite Linux/Windows/Mac http://www.openoffice.org/
Dia Diagram editor (network, UML, etc.) Linux/Windows http://live.gnome.org/Dia
GIMP Image editor Linux/Windows/Mac http://www.gimp.org/
Amaya HTML editor (+MathML) Linux/Windows/Mac http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
Scribus Desktop publishing Linux/Windows/Mac http://www.scribus.net/
PostgreSQL Enterprise-class RDMBS Linux/Windows http://www.postgresql.org/
MySQL Widely used RDMBS Linux/Windows http://www.mysql.com/
Mono .Net platform including C# Linux/Windows http://www.mono-project.com/
VNC Remotely control computers Linux/Windows http://www.realvnc.com/
Wireshark Protocol analyser (formerly Ethereal) Linux/Windows http://www.wireshark.org/
NetBeans Java IDE Linux/Windows http://www.netbeans.org/
Apache The number one web server on the Internet Linux/Windows http://httpd.apache.org/

$Date: 2007-10-02$