Software For Starving Students 2007 edition

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Software For Starving Students 2007 edition

by Brad Linder Jan 2nd 2007

With a new year comes a new release of Software for Starving Students' CD of free (as in beer) software.

The 2007.01 edition includes a wide gamut of programs to do everything from editing images and creating web pages to playing media files and video games. In other words, you can get your GIMPshop, NVU, VLC, and Tux Racer fixes.

There's dozens of other programs on the disc as well. Of course, these are all freely available programs, so you could also treat the SoSS web site as a list of links allowing you to pick and choose some new software. But downloading and burning the disc image would probably save you a lot of time.

It's not quite clear what's new in the 2007.01 version that wasn't included in last year's release. It's safe to say at the very least you get the latest versions of all the included software, but I'd imagine there may be a few new additions as well.

The disc image comes in Mac and PC varieties.

[Via Lifehacker]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

blogger said 7:52AM on 1-03-2007

>>free (as in beer) software

where do you get free beer??

John Carricaburu said 7:53AM on 1-03-2007

What a great idea, wish they had this when I was a Starving Student! I would have appreciated a bried description of what each application does, though, as I've never heard of most of the titles; on their website it just has a long list of the titles. Great initiative though!

They could have included GigaTribe (http://www.gigatribe.com) to make it truely complete. It's free software that allows you to give access to friends to specific folders (and therefore files) on your computer which you've chosen to share. There's no limit to the file sizes exchanged.

John said 11:11AM on 1-03-2007

You should also check out the TTCS CD at http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/
"The TTCS OSSWIN CD is a collection of over 100 Free/Open Source software for home and business users using the Microsoft Windows 98SE/Me/2000 and XP operating systems."

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