OS Replacement

• Ubuntu - user friendly (256MB RAM, 3GB diskspace)
• Fedora - rapid development (256MB RAM, 500MB-9GB diskspace)
• OpenSuse - business oriented (512MB RAM & 3GB diskspace)
• Public PCs - Edubuntu Thin Clients, Fedora Stateless Linux

Office

• OpenOffice - Writer, Impress, Math, Draw, Calc, Base (Linux, Win)
• NeoOffice - Mac version with Writer, Impress, Draw, Calc (Mac)

Internet

• Firefox - Internet browser with add-ons (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Thunderbird - Email client (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Sunbird - Calendar (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Lightning - Add-on integrates Sunbird & Thunderbird (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Sea Monkey - Browser, html editor, e-mail (Linux, Mac, Win)

Media

• Audacity - audio editor & recorder (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Gimp - edit images, photos (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Jahshaka - video editing (Linux, Mac, Win)
• Wink - screen captures, webcasting, Flash tutorials (Linux, Win) Note: I was uable to get Wink to run as an X11 program in MacOSX. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up. --Mike 2/26/07