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| Applications for all users | User-Friendly software. No particular IT knowledge required | 
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 |  | FreeStuff | Diverse free applications for PC. 
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                |  | LibreOffice | The free Office alternative |  
                   |  | Mozilla | Mozilla is the home of Firefox and Thunderbird |  
                   |  | VLC 
 | VLC is a great video player 
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  | Applications for IT geeks | Less user-friendly software. Above average IT knowledge required | 
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 |  | Analog 
 | Web log analysis software |  |  | Apache | Rock solid Webserver. 
 |  |  | CPAN | The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |  |  | Eclipse 
 | Open source development platform |  |  | Exim | Mail Transport Agent |  
                 |  | KDE 
 | Great desktop environment 
 |  |  | Mozilla | Mozilla is the home of Firefox and Thunderbird |  |  | MySQL | MySQL is a free Database |  |  |  |  | Opera 
 | Opera is a browser |  |  | PHP | Tools for website developpers |  |  | ProFTP | Secure FTP server 
 |  |  | Samba 
 | File sharing made simple. 
 |  |  |  |  | Webalizer 
 | Website log analysis software 
 |  |  | Ubuntu CD's Ubuntu DVD's
 Ubuntu Ultimate edition
 
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world famous Ubuntu Linux is the Linux of choice at the university.
Several sets are available, CD's, DVD's or the Ultimate Ubuntu edition. |  | 
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  | Mathematical software | Alternatives to SPSS | 
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            |  | Cran | Cran is a freely available language and environment for
statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of
statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling,
statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering,
etc. Please consult the R project homepage for further information.
reat mathematical / statistical application software. 
 |  |  | PSPP 
 | A free alternative to SPSS. 
 |  |  | Sage 
 | Sage is a free open-source
  mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the
  power of many existing open-source packages into a
  common Python-based interface. |  | 
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	| - Linux and Unix-based Operating Systems: 
 
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| Full listing of world class OS | The name says it all | 
                  | Crux ; CruxPPC | Linux OS ; CruxPPC installs on PowerPC-based machines. | 
 | Debian | Linux OS | 
 | Rocky Linux | Linux OS | 
 | Debian-CDs | Linux OS CDs | 
			    | FreeBSD | BSD Unix OS, Namibia's Tim Priebe's favourite | 
			    | Gnupg ; Gnu 
 | Unix OS | 
			   
                  | Linux Mint | Linux OS | 
                
                
                
                
                
                
 | Redhat | Linux OS | 
			   
			   
                  | OpenBSD | BSD Unix | 
			   
                
                  | SYS 
 | Linux OS 
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 | Ubuntu ; Ubuntu CD images ; Ubuntu Releases | Linux Operating
System with strong African links that is taking the world by storm. Very popular, highly
recommended. A must have for all IT students & academics. Thousands
of free applications can be downloaded from another part of this site. To do so, during
installation, specifiy Namibian time zone & Namibia as source for
updates. 
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