- Software:
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| Applications for all users |
User-Friendly software. No particular IT knowledge required |
| | FreeStuff |
Diverse free applications for PC.
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| | LibreOffice |
The free Office alternative |
| | Mozilla |
Mozilla is the home of Firefox and Thunderbird |
| | OpenOffice |
Another free Office alternative
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| | Sourceforge
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The
largest repository of Free and open Source software in the world with over 20 TB of programs available so far here on the 18 July 2014.
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| | VLC
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VLC is a great video player
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| Applications for IT geeks |
Less user-friendly software. Above average IT knowledge required |
| | Analog
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Web log analysis software |
| | Apache |
Rock solid Webserver.
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CPAN |
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |
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Eclipse
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Open source development platform |
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Exim |
Mail Transport Agent |
| | KDE
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Great desktop environment
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Mozilla |
Mozilla is the home of Firefox and Thunderbird |
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MySQL |
MySQL is a free Database |
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OpenOffice
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The free Office alternative
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Opera
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Opera is a browser |
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PHP |
Tools for website developpers |
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ProFTP
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Secure FTP server
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Samba
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File sharing made simple.
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Sourceforge
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The
largest repository of Free and open Source software in the world with over 20 Tb available so far here on the 18 July 2014.
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Webalizer
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Website log analysis software
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Ubuntu CD's
Ubuntu DVD's
Ubuntu Ultimate edition
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The
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 |
| | Cran
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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.
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PSPP
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A free alternative to SPSS.
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Sage
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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 |
| | Archlinux |
Linux OS |
| | Centos |
Linux OS
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| | Crux ; CruxPPC |
Linux OS ; CruxPPC installs on PowerPC-based machines. |
| | Debian |
Linux OS |
| | Debian-CDs |
Linux OS CDs |
| | FreeBSD |
BSD Unix OS, Namibia's Tim Priebe's favourite |
| | Fedora |
Linux OS |
| | Gentoo |
Linux OS |
| | Gnupg ; Gnu
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Unix OS |
| | Linux Mint |
Linux OS |
| | Mageia |
Linux OS |
| | MX Linux |
Linux OS |
| MX Linux ISO |
Linux OS |
| | Redhat |
Linux OS |
| | OpenBSD |
BSD Unix |
| | OpenSUSE |
Linux OS |
| | Sabayon |
Linux OS |
| | SYS
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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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| | Ultimate Ubuntu
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The
name says it all. Based on Ubuntu, loaded with plenty of extra goodies.
Also specify Namibian time zone & Namibia during installation as a source for updates.
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- Websites of interest - Mirrors of great websites.
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| | Gutenberg project
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A free repository
of thousands of
books. |
| | MIT OpenCourseware |
Free courses from the Massachussets Institute of Technology |
| | Sourceforge |
The
largest repository of Free and open Source software in the world with over 20 TB of programs on the 18 July 2014. |
| | CPAN |
Another large repository of Free and open Source software. |
| | Grass |
Geographical Information Systems software |
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