What should be on the disc 2006

Should we include links to additional software not on the disc? Since there's more good stuff out there than will fit on a CD, and the majority of people have decent net connections these days... Things like Gimp, Inkscape spring to mind - chckens

Yes - if we create a list of all the software we want to include, and then select the files and programs we want to put on the disc, and link the rest on the web. Also, a redesigned interface for the disc similar to the new website in colour and layout etc. - elsmorian

Remember we are the computer society, not the mac-fan-boy society, the majority of our new members will be coming from a windows only background.

Desktop Tools

• OpenOffice.org(win) & NeoOffice (mac) & Instructions (linux)
  • Re: NeoOffice - We should provide the latest beta of the new aqua neooffice, in my opinion.

I'm not sure we have space to include both PPC and Intel versions though - so which should we put on? -- frosty

• Firefox (win/mac) - Howto install for linux instructions
  • Possibly Camino or Shiira for Mac? -- frosty Camino is a bit pointless RC
  • Flock? Opera? Are these redistributable? -- Ok, its getting silly now... Just how many browsers do you need? RC
• Thunderbird (win/mac) - Howto install for linux instructions
• Gaim (win) - Adium (mac) - Howto install for linux instructions
• Psi (win/linux/mac)
• Freemind? Free mindmapping software - sort of handy for students, maybe. And it's open source. -- frosty
• VoodooPadLite - Mac only, but another good student tool. At least, I find it handy for keeping notes -- frosty
• VNC Client (win/mac)

Photo / Image editing

• Inkscape (win/linux/mac)
• The Gimp (win/linux/mac)
• F-spot (linux) - May link this one, as its only Linux. It's good, though.
• Link to http://www.openclipart.org/ ?

Media Players / Editors

• VLC (win/linux/mac)
• Audacity (win/linux/mac)
• Songbird (currently win) - Included possibly only if they get any proper other OS support, currently binarries for win/linux/mac but experimental.
• jinzora (install on win/linux, play on most browsers)
• Mplayer (win/linux/mac preview)

Windows Utilities

• PuTTY
• WinSCP
• Power Archiver (Copy on last years CD, or ask RC), still dam good, perhaps replace with 7zip this year
• 7zip
• FileZilla
• Adobe Reader
• PuTTY Extras
• [http://tortoisesvn.net/ Tortoise SVN

Programming

• Java SDK 1.5 (also known as 5.0) (win/linux) - Confirmed with Chris Whyley
• BlueJ (win/linux/mac)
• Eclipse (win/linux/mac) see http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ you want the "Latest Release" and then the "Platform Runtime Binary"
• HUGS (win/linux)
• SWI-Prolog (win/linux)
• MySQL (win) - Howto install for linux instructions
• SVN (win/linux/mac) - Tortoise svn for windows, instructions for linux, and ? for mac...
• Any good free text editors? Like TextWrangler? on the mac? Or links, maybe. -- frosty - Good free text editor? Its called vim rc
• Vim (win/linux/mac)

Games

• Armagetron Advanced (win/linux/mac)
• BZFlag (win/linux/mac)
• Crack Attack (win/linux/mac)
• Frozen Bubble (win/linux/mac)
• Scorched 3D (win/linux/mac)

Guides - this needs updating to reflect the new website url's if thats going to be in place in time

• Web DAV / sFTP
• Login
• Milliways
• Map to room
• How to install the linux cd stuff in common distros