Software

We primarily advocate and promote use of Free software. This is software licensed to ensure your rights to: inspect it, use it, edit it, and share it. If you cannot do one of these things, your computer may be controlling _you_.

=GNU= www.gnu.org These people(and you!) make software licences for your safety, and many basic tools and applications.

=Linux= http://www.linux.com/  These people(and you!) make the hardware talk to your applications. This is the Operating System.

=Debian= www.debian.org These people put together all of the applications and make it easy for users to aquire and install.

=DocumentFoundation= http://www.documentfoundation.org/ These people(and you!) make LibreOffice  A standards compliant and very useful LibreOffice. It can open Microsoft Office files, and even Corel Word Perfect files.

=KDE= http://kde.org  These people(and you!) put together a user enviornment that is much easier to use than Windows (including Windows95, XP, and Windows 7)  This is a perfect upgrade for anybody running XP. It also contains many graphical utilities, and software like email clients, games, and a whole ecosystem of high quality programs.

=Canonical= http://www.canonical.com/  These people take Debian with bleeding edge features and support it commercially. It is generally unusable, however variants like lubuntu and kubuntu are generally very good. http://lubuntu.org http://kubuntu.org

=Wine= http://winehq.org While we generally advocate using free software whenever possible, you may have some of your work locked in some proprietary software. Wine can run many Microsoft Windows programs without installing Windows.