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Is there really any Software For Starving Students?

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softwareforAccording to the Software For [website], Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (also available to anyone). They’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more. Why did they put this collection together in the first place? Well, they say the at the cost of a college education is always increasing and usually faster than students can earn money. They hope that

their efforts will help lower students’ software costs and I wish them good luck in their cool efforts. The collection includes FOSS for both OS X and Windows platforms:

For OS X they have put together:

  1. Acqlite
  2. Adium
  3. Audacity
  4. Bleezer
  5. Blender
  6. BZFlag
  7. Camino
  8. Carbon Copy Cloner
  9. Cashbox
  10. Celestia
  11. ClamXav
  12. Crack Attack!
  13. Enigma
  14. FreeDMG
  15. Freemind
  16. Fugu
  17. Genius
  18. GLtron
  19. HandBrake
  20. ImageBurner
  21. Monolingual
  22. MozoDojo
  23. NeoOffice
  24. NVU
  25. Pac the Man X
  26. Platypus
  27. POV-Ray
  28. Seashore
  29. Schoolhouse
  30. Smultron
  31. Thunderbird
  32. Transmission
  33. TypeTrainer4Mac
  34. VideoLAN Client

For Windows they have put together:

  1. 7-Zip Ant Renamer
  2. Audacity
  3. Blender
  4. BZFlag
  5. Celestia
  6. ClamWin
  7. DeepBurner Free
  8. Dia
  9. Enigma
  10. Eraser
  11. Exact Audio Copy
  12. FileZilla
  13. Firefox
  14. Freeciv
  15. Gaim
  16. GIMPShop
  17. GLtron
  18. GNU Chess
  19. Icebreaker
  20. Inkscape
  21. Juice Receiver
  22. KeePass
  23. MozBackup
  24. NVU
  25. OpenOffice.org
  26. Paint.NET
  27. PDFCreator
  28. Portable Apps
  29. POV-Ray
  30. PuTTY
  31. SolarWolf
  32. Spybot S&D
  33. Stellarium
  34. SuperTux
  35. The GIMP Toolkit
  36. Thunderbird
  37. Tortoise SVN
  38. Tux Paint
  39. Tux Racer
  40. Tux Typing 2
  41. VLC
  42. WinDirStat
  43. Wink
  44. winLAME
  45. WinSCP
  46. XAMPP
  47. µTorrent
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Posted in All That Linux, Software Reviews on December 27th, 2006

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