E-recycling Day
…the day you really do wish that you were *cough cough* home sick…
It occurs to me as I look back over the years of my blogs that I’ve done a lot more ranting and raving than informing. While I love to tell stories and share recipes, one of my original goals of having a blog was to describe good bits of techie knowledge, especially about stuff that is free. So, I have created a new category called Free and Open in hopes of getting my blogging juices flowing again.
To get started, I am simply going to list some of the great open source and free software that we use in my IT shop every day. Sometimes I am amazed at all of the really solid software that is available out there for nothing but the cost of some elbow grease and (hopefully) your donation to the cause in either money or sweat equity. 
Here goes!
First, the heavy duty server and infrastructure stuff…
- CentOS Linux operating system
- VMware ESXi vSphere hypervisor
- Trilead VMX VM Explorer
- Zimbra e-mail and collaboration suite
- Moodle course management system
- Mailman mailing list manager
- Nagios network infrastructure monitoring tool
- Cacti network graphing solution
- OCS Inventory NG inventory system
- Gallery photo album organizer
- Concerto digital signage software
- Cisco Network Assistant network management tool
Then, the more ubiquitous end-user stuff…
- Ubuntu Linux operating system
- Shrew Soft VPN client
- CDBurnerXP CD/DVD burning software
- WinSCP SCP/FTP client
- Paint.NET digital photo editing software
- PDFCreator Windows PDF printer
- Notepad++ editor
- PuTTY telnet/ssh client
- Firefox web browser
I’m sure that I am missing some good ones but now that I’ve started thinking about some of these items, especially the ones that we’ve put some real effort into, I hope that my brain will start generating some wisdom to share…
