I always think of it in groups. You have your productivity suite, editors, graphics, security, web. What about audio, p2p (if that is her thing). What university is she going to? Some universities give you your own webspace, does she have the tools to work with that if she wants? Also, you usually get a free pop3/imap mailbox. Just out of curiosity, which university is she going to?
--mat || Bipolar, adj.: Refers to someone who has homes in Nome, Alaska, and Buffalo, New York On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:42, Doug Riddle wrote: > 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... > > > > ===== > 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 -- > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
