The document discusses free and open source software alternatives to expensive proprietary software like Microsoft Windows and Office. It provides a list of free software for operating systems, communication, programming, data processing, utilities, data storage and backup, and special purposes. The free software stack can provide students with fully-functional alternatives to paid software at no cost beyond downloading and using the programs.

1. Free Software Stack for Students

2. Free Software Stack for Students How many of you have purchased a desktop/laptop? How many have licensed copy of Windows Professional? How many have licensed copies of MS Office? How many have licensed anti-virus software? How many of you use a database? How many programming tools do you have?

3. Windows 7 Price in India Windows 7 Home Basic Price – Rs.5,400 Windows 7 Home Premium Price – Rs.6,700 Windows 7 Professional Price – Rs.10,200 Windows 7 Ultimate Price – Rs.10,950

4. Microsoft Office 2007 Prices Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Price – Rs.3,025/- Microsoft Office 2007 Standard Edition Price – Rs.14,500/- Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Edition Price – Rs.16,500/- Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business Edition Price – Rs.15,700/- Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Price – Rs.26,800/-

5. Windows Server Standard 2008 Windows Server Standard 2008 Price 32-bit/x64 English DVD 5 Clients – Rs. 30,000/- Windows Server Standard 2008 Price 32-bit/x64 English DVD 10 Clt – Rs. 47,714/- Windows Small Business Server Standard Price – Rs. 49,550/- Windows Small Business Server Premium Price – Rs. 83,150/- Windows Server Enterprise 2008 Price – Rs. 1,71,900/- Source:http://www.newtechnology.co.in/

6. Equivalent Freeware and its Cost Ubuntu Open Office / Libre Office CentOS MySQL / PostGre SQL Cost – Nil : Just Download & Use

7. Why do we use computers? High speed High level of accuracy High volume processing Excellent for repetitive tasks

8. What do we use computers for? Communication Data Processing Sharing Devices and Data Resources Data Storage & Retrieval

9. Operating System Desktop (Desktop) Windows Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora/Suse/Mandrake) Network (Interconnected computers) Windows Server Unix Linux (Ubuntu Server/CentOS/FreeBSD)

10. Communication Freeware EMail Thunderbird/Outlook Express Chat GoogleTalk/Yahoo Messenger/Pidgin/Skype Audio Audacity/Winamp Video VLC Player

11. Programming Tools Dev C++ / Codelight (C & C++) Seamonkey (HTML) Eclipse (Java, C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python) Netbeans (Java, JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript,Ajax, C/C++) Komodo (Perl, PHP & Ruby) Dot Net (Paid)

12. Data Processing Word Processing/Spreadsheets/Presentations Open Office / Libre Office Databases MySQL / PostGre SQL Drawing Inkscape / Dia / Draw / MS Visio (Paid Software) Graph Drawing GraphViz / JGraph

13. Utilities Antivirus: AVGFree/Avast/Avira Personal Ed. Formatting : Partition Editor File Management: muCommander FTP: FileZilla Mind Mapping: Freemind Image Editing: Gimp Rendering: Blender PDF Creation / Joining: Pdf Creator Cloning: Clonezilla

14. Data Storage, Exchange & Backup FreeNAS Open Filer MediaFire (Cloud)

15. Free Cloud Computing Apps Google Apps Windows Skydrive Zoho Pixir Cloud AntiVirus Google Maps YouTube

16. Special Purpose Applications Joomla Moodle Open Bravo Samba Vtiger Zen Cart Zimbra

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