TracN Jack
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Being in educational computing and technology I am always looking for new thingsI have found an organization that has bundled many open source/GPL/ and licensed applications on one disk to provide students and others an almost complete set of applications to use at little or no cost.
The download is a 600mb+ .iso file that is very tedious to get throught the direct mirror
the Bittorent download is much faster....
I have the full .iso file that I can burn to CD's for you as long as you cover the cost of mailing and have patience
more info on the applications on the cd
Please support them if you can..
Jack
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What software is on the CD?
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Why isn't your CD open source? and/or Why do you include non-open source software?
Why haven't you included [insert software title here]?
How can this be free?
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What is the license for Software for Starving Students?
Why is there no CD for Linux?
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Q: What software is on the CD?
A: For the 2007.01 release, the titles are: OS X
Acqlite
Adium
Audacity
Bleezer
Blender
BZFlag
Camino
Carbon Copy Cloner
Cashbox
Celestia
ClamXav
Crack Attack!
Enigma
FreeDMG
Freemind
Fugu
Genius
GLtron
HandBrake
ImageBurner
Monolingual
MozoDojo
NeoOffice
NVU
Pac the Man X
Platypus
POV-Ray
Seashore
Schoolhouse
Smultron
Thunderbird
Transmission
TypeTrainer4Mac
VideoLAN Client
Windows
7-Zip
Ant Renamer
Audacity
Blender
BZFlag
Celestia
ClamWin
DeepBurner Free
Dia
Enigma
Eraser
Exact Audio Copy
FileZilla
Firefox
Freeciv
Gaim
GIMPShop
GLtron
GNU Chess
Icebreaker
Inkscape
Juice Receiver
KeePass
MozBackup
NVU
OpenOffice.org
Paint.NET
PDFCreator
Portable Apps
POV-Ray
PuTTY
SolarWolf
Spybot S&D
Stellarium
SuperTux
The GIMP Toolkit
Thunderbird
Tortoise SVN
Tux Paint
Tux Racer
Tux Typing 2
VLC
WinDirStat
Wink
winLAME
WinSCP
XAMPP
µTorrent
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Q: Why do you do this?
A: The cost of a college education is always increasing -- usually faster than students can earn money. We hope our efforts will help lower students' software costs.
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Q: Why isn't your CD open source? and/or Why do you include non-open source software?
A: We enthusiastically support the concept of free/open software and standards. But our primary concern is that students have access to high-quality software, free of charge. If a software title could be useful for students and is free of charge, we'll seek permission to include it even if it is not open source. We've also chosen to license our contributions to the disc (the interface, etc.) such that it must remain free of charge.
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Q: Why haven't you included [insert software title here]?
A: Either we haven't heard of it (contact us!), or there is already a title on the disc that has the same functionality, or we haven't been able to determine that it fills a specific need for students.
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Q: How can this be free?
A: We obtain all of this software, legally free of charge, via the Internet. Most of it is open source, the rest is obtained and distributed by permission. It doesn't cost us anything but our time (for the most part), so we pass the good will on to you.
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