I am in my Prefinal year at Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College.
Recently,
I obtained the permission to install free Oses in 3 systems in my Lab. I am
planning
to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on
1.
(I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a thought since they are
rock solid. But
I doubt if we need such a Rock Solid distro where kids might want the latest
toys.
Also Debian Squeeze is a choice which I have not ruled out yet.)
Given that 10 out of 10 (:P) machines are using more cycles battling viruses
and trojans
on the current Windows XP install, I feel that this will be a welcome break.
Also, it will
give some students of the current pre-final year to embrace a F/OSS final
year project.
I am planning on the current software configuration (The systems are P4 3.0
GHz machines
with 512 mb RAM)
- DE
1) XFCE (Mainly because I feel Gnome is too much for the 512mb RAM limit)
with its allied apps like ristretto, xfce4 term, Thunar etc.
- Development
2) Emacs,Gvim,Scite,Tea
3) gcc, g++, openjdk, python, perl, ruby, php and ghc
4) Django, Rails, Apache, Tomcat
5) GNU Octave
6) iverilog
-Graphics
7) Avidemux
8) Gimp, Inkscape
9) smplayer
-Shells
10) zsh and bash
-Office
11) evince, xchm
12) OpenOffice.Org-3
-Networking
13) Firefox (De Facto :P)
14) XChat, irssi
Are there any other applications that are recommended?
Also, I am planning to include a README file on the Desktop with read only
permissions outlining how they can mail root asking for software they need
and tips.
I sincerely hope that I can pass the spark to atleast 10 more and hence get
a real
F/OSS community like Jaya Engineering College has. (Kudos to them)
Any suggestions?
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Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham