My daughter is leaving for college, major unknown as of yet.  I am
relaoding her PC, a P-200, 128 MB RAM, 6.5 Gig HDD.

She wants Windows as the OS.  College is hard enough without fighting
the OS, so who cares.  I have ten or fifteen legal copies of Win98
and Win95 around.  I am more interested in the software than the OS.

I loaded the AVG virus scanner and updated it.
I installed winzip, Acrobat, Gimp, Open Office, and Opera.

What am I missing?

If your kid was leaving for college, what Open Source app would you
NOT want to forget.  I have until about 11:00 AM Monday, 01/20/2003
to do the installs.  I am on broadband, so download time is trivial.

I appreciate any suggestions.  Especially about Open Source firewalls
for Windows.  She will be one a campus dial-up, so I doubt it will be
a big deal, but if anyone knows of one...



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Warmest Regards,

Doug Riddle
http://www.dougriddle.com
http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/
http://www.libranet.com
-- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the 
Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington --


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