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The OpenCD is a useful tool for getting people to experience open source software. The CD comes with a variety of open source programs from productivity to design which can be run from windows. It also includes a live version of Ubuntu to allow a person to experience a Linux operating system.

If you haven’t tried it out yet, feel free to download the .iso file and burn it to a blank CD. A number of these programs I already had found individually and use – but even I found a few new ones that were very useful. (This blog post was typed on Notepad2, a nice customizable text editor. Also great for script writing.) At the very least, check out the list of software for ideas of what you might find useful.

For those of you out there that want to run Linux inside windows I’ve discovered there are a couple of builds of VMware images of Ubuntu on various torrent search sites. These can be run with the freely available (From their site you pirate!) Vmware player. I’m in the process of downloading Ubuntu now to try this myself. I’ll update once I play around with it and throw up some screenshots sometime this weekend.