Just a quick bit until I can do this page justice.
At home I use Ubuntu and Fedora Operating systems on my PC's and Puppy Linux Debian Lenny on my (rather old) laptops. Also I use Ubuntu, Fedora and FreeNas servers, hosted on a VMWare ESXi server. There is also a linux based Smoohtwall Firewall.
I have a web server, in a data center in the USA, this also runs Fedora, and the Xampp stack. This used to be a server in my backroom, but you get better up time in a data center than a bedroom.
I only use Open Source/Free software, here is some of it,
- OpenOffice - Office suit, for me as good as Microsoft Office, but free and cross platform
- Firefox - the best web browser at the moment
- Add-ons
- adblock Plus
- Firebug
- GMail Manager
- Google Toolbar
- New Tab Homepage
- Add-ons
- GIMP - hard core, photoshopish image editing
- Skype - VOIP
- Filezilla - FTP Cleint
- Picasa - Photo gallery, and quick touch up
- g2PDF - Gnome tool for scaning straght to PDF
- Amarok - MP3 player
- KeePass - pasword safe
- EnvyNE - Driver manager for Linux and nVidea Graphics cards