Yet another list of software one should have on one's computer. In this case The Register's Ten free apps to install on every new PC. The unstated assumption is, of course, that you are installing these on a Windows machine.
Still, it was an interesting read, and so were some of the comments (El Reg readers are not noted for obsequious deference to the writers). Apple's Itunes? It's not on my list more because I'm wary of the Mac fanboi cult of St. Jobs than anything specific. Besides, how could I have any opinion at all on an app that doesn't run on Linux?
It was nice to see OpenOffice.org (not, as The Register has it, "OpenOffice") at the top of the list. And a good (non-ideological) argument for preferring it to the M$ Office copy that apparently comes with a lot of Windows computers these days.
OpenOffice.org and others on the list run on Windows and on Linux. So if you are contemplating making the Big Switch, these are good places to start. These are the ones I recognized as Linux apps:
The others either have Linux analogs (Evince for Foxit) or don't need one (Microsoft Security Essentials).