Gentoo is a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

 

Database software

 

DaDaBIK is a free PHP application that allows you to easily create a highly customizable front-end for a database in order to search, insert, update and delete records.

 

 

MySQL is the world's most popular open source database.

 

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

Productivity software

Open Office.org The Free and Open Productivity Suite. OpenOffice.org provides everything most people need in an office productivity suite. It is stable, reliable, and robust, built up over twenty years' development. It was designed from the start as a single piece of software, which makes for higher quality software and a more consistent user experience. The main components of the OpenOffice.org Suite are the Writer word processor, the Calc spreadsheet, Impress for presentations, Draw for graphics and the Base database.

 

Gumeric is a Free, Fast and Accurate open source spreadsheet.

 

GIS/ Map making software

 

Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. QGIS is licensed under the GNU Public License.

 

 

Grass is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. GRASS is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world, as well as by many governmental agencies and environmental consulting companies.

 

 

 

Map Publisher is high quality map production software that works.

 

 

Map Maker makes maps!

 

 

Design software

 

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.

 

 

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

 

 

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

 

 

 

 

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, creating stunning images and graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity.