My favorite task as a teenager: cut CDs that had all the essential software I would ever need. Titling them as Essentials, I’d be ready lest somebody needed a piece. Exactly 10 years ago. The hobby soon curled up as a small business where we would burn SparcCDs containing all essential freeware programs and sell them. End: some 4 years back.
Today, the only essential software I need is a command prompt with wget. Of course, then I would get the following:
- openSUSE 11.0
- Firefox 3.0
- TabMixPlus / Live HTTP Headers / Vimperator
- FoxyProxy / User Agent Switcher / del.icou.us bookmarker
- Thunderbird 2.0
- Lightning / Threadkey / SwitchProxy
- QuoteCollapse / Mailbox Alert / XNote
- PIdgin
- Conversation Colors / Guifications / History / Log Reader
- Psychic Mode / Nicksaid / Mystatusbox
- zypper
- konsole
- screen
- kbluetooth
- konsole
- klipper
- xrandr
- amarok
- zypper
Very soon, they’ll be in your essentials list.