Kitting your new system out!

So you've got your brand new PC home (a new Medion Akoya Mini in my case), unpacked it and gone through the tedious setup process. Now what?

Oh Yeah! there's that thing called software!

There is now so much good quality open source and free software on the web that there is absolutely no reason to buy commercial equivalents. So where do you find all this stuff?

Well there are three very good websites you can visit depending on what operating system you are using:

No.1 Microsoft Windows (Vista, XP, 2000, 98, 95)
Unfortunately this is probably going to be what most of you use -
http://www.opensourcewindows.org

No.2 Mac OS
This is going to be the second most likely operating system -
http://www.opensourcemac.org

No.3 Linux (Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Mandriva etc.)
http://www.opensourcelinux.org

I happen to use all three operating systems so I try to keep the same software on each for familiarity.

Two other pieces of open source software you may be interested in which aren't mentioned on those sites are:

Songbird (Media Player)
It's still in beta but is very stable on all systems.
http://www.getsongbird.com

IBM Lotus Symphony (Office Suite)
It's a lot more polished than Open Office!
http://symphony.lotus.com

I hope this helps some people out, if anybody has any more suggestions for things I missed please feel free to email me at: samuelbarrett@sampbar.com