I've been building up a software compilation, for Microsoft Windows XP (not for Vista) that would provide a cheap as free, powerful, finely performing set of tools for everyone from the typical computer illiterate man to the most power-using child.

Ideally, ReactOS will be the finishing touch on this project, allowing an entirely free and open source operating system that a Windows user can operate. But that won't happen for a while.

What I'm interested in is peer review. Now, writing the NSIS code for an as-efficient-as-possible install CD (and the target compilation size is 700 MB) is easy enough, but a pain to update every month as I find new software, update old software, and so on. Especially since I don't have a server to share it with.

So my peer review comes in form of me putting hyperlinks with a mouseover description, and then You The People think about any free/open source software you have on your computer which can outdo mine, or fill a void my software doesn't have.

It's easy. Just give me the name of the software in a journal comment, or even send me a link to your favorite list of open source software.

But here's my list of what's on my model CD:
Image Manipulation:

Paint.NET
Inkscape
Blender

Media players:

QuickTime
Songbird
VLC

Maintenance:

EasyCleaner
JKDefrag
NISTime
WGAPlugin
TreeSizeFree

Audio-Video Editing:

Audacity
AviSynth
Camstudio
DGIndex
VirtualDubMod
Wax
XviD
YUVCodecs
HuffYUV
Lagarith

Internet Access:

Pidgin
Thunderbird
TBTray
Firefox
Free Download Manager
Flash Player Installer for Firefox
Web Developer Server Suite
FileZilla Server
Frostwire
Azureus
BCDC++
eMule
FileZilla Client

Entertainment:

Plasma Pong
Rumblebox

Windows Modifications:

TweakUI Powertoy
A43
Bootskin
ClearType Powertoy
SharpE
Taskswitch Powertoy
CmdHere Powertoy
Magic Jellybean Key Finder

Security:

Avast!
KeePass
PeerGuardian

Programming:

Cygwin
Eclipse
MinGW & MSYS
NISEdit
NSIS
Nvu

Office Tools

Foxit Reader
FreeMind
Notepad++
OpenOffice.org
PDFCreator
Scribus
WinMerge

Utilities:

Umit
REC
Wireshark

Unsorted:

Flurry
CDisplayEx EchoVNC
Google Earth
PuTTy DirectX 9c
GhostScript
GTK+
Java Runtime Environment
WinPCap
CDex DAEMON Tools
DVD2AVI DVD Decrypter
ImgBurn TrueCrypt
7zip Antrenamer
DOSBox
GraphCalc Jdictionary
Maxima OpenVPN
Sunbird

Free download manager can use torrents, so I may remove Azureus. I don't know if I like A43--I haven't bothered to make the script to install it yet. I haven't used Inkscape, Scribus, Maxima, OpenVPN, MySQL, PHP, Wax, I've never gotten REC to work quite right.

Azureus is not quite compatible with the current version of SharpE, but a new SharpE is coming out soon enough. A43 may or may not be compatible once installed, it depends on how SharpE is coded.

I welcome any and all advice on this project of mine, and if you ask I'll update you on new software I find. If you decide to bookmark this specific journal, I'll try and keep it up to date with my compilation software list. I'll even sort it into labeled categories (its only roughly sorted right now). Why would I update this entry? Because some of those websites are damn hard to find, man, so this is my OWN bookmark list.

Does anyone know if the makers of any of those softwares that aren't GNU-enabled have some particular oath against being distributed on a CD?

Last but not least, this project needs a name... any ideas?

That's about it for now.