If you're going to be putting games, put on Tremulous and some of the games that got FOSS'd during the Humble Indie Bundle..
Also, Nethack! (And X-Nethack). And my personal favorite: ack-grep. You might also want to give it a sweet-ass .bashrc with lots of good aliases and color schemes and stuff. R On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Clark, Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > For goodness sake, put GIMP on there if it's not already. Also Inkscape. > Getting Things Gnome with some of its plugins - eg the Remember the Milk > plugin > Hamster Time Tracker > Gourmet Recipe Manager w/ plugins > A podcast client, eg Gpodder > Maybe throw some decent FLOSS games on there too - something more enticing > than solitaire and tetris (although I can play tetris for days). > For new users, maybe Wine? > Would you want to put the compiz desktop cube stuff in by default? > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Alec Story [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:15 PM > To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular > Subject: [FC-discuss] Packages for a Custom Ubuntu install to Entice New > Users > > We're going to be packaging up a custom ubuntu DVD to try to entice new > users, and want to pre-install more packages than usual (we're using DVDs, so > the space won't be an issue). We're going to try to include things from our > classes, but there are lots of other useful packages that are more general - > do you have any suggestions? Here's our list so far: > > DrJava (sucks, but is used for a class) > OCaml (+ ledit ocaml, omake) > Eclipse > LaTeX, and some useful extra packages there (which ones?) > Python (extra packages) > qtoctave and regular command line octave > vim and emacs extra packages > git, svn mercurial > MStt fonts > libreoffice rather than openoffice > > -- > Alec Story > Cornell University > Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
