Geek on a Budget Act 2
So here is the thing. I am broke, and as usually is the case with broke persons, I cannot afford to buy alot of the software that I need to maintain my Geekness.
Fortunately, there are Open Source solutions for most of the areas in which I compute. The trouble with Open Source, however, is finding the stuff that works. You pretty much have to go on a Internet wide scavenger hunt to just find one thing that you need.
Thankfully, the Geeks atOpen Disk have created an “essentials” kit. This ISO image has pretty much everything that you would need for general computing. From OpenOffice.org to TightVNC, it’s all there.
Check out their website to view the contents and download your copy, free of charge.
Posted Saturday, August 15, 2009