Help expand the open source wave in a cheap and cost effective manner. All of our disks come with colored labels printed right onto the disk, but these each have their own customized style. This and their price make them excellent handouts at trade shows, public user group stands, swap meets, and just as a general gift. Convince your coworkers of the powers of Firefox and the pitfalls of other browsers with the Firemonger bundle. TheOpenCD is another great choice for the non-believers among us, along with the live CDs.

Each one of these bundles comes with 10 disks, priced at a humble $1.50/CD - almost 40% off. You also save some on the shipping fee.

The OpenCD project aims to introduce users of MS-Windows to the benefits of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). We include only the highest quality programs, which have been carefully tested for stability and which we consider appropriate for a broad audience. We provide a description and screen-shots of each program, so you can get an idea of what it does before installing. All these applications install and un-install cleanly, so you can be comfortable testing them with the knowledge that they will not adversely affect your system. The programs on the disc are all distributed under an Open Source License (OSI approved), which allows you to freely use and distribute them. You may even change the programs using the source code, which we make available, and distribute your own modified versions, provided you then in turn make the source code available, and give appropriate credit to past contributors.

More on TheOpenCD here, and on its home page, www.theopencd.org

OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. You can create dynamic documents, analyse data, design eye-catching presentations, produce dramatic illustrations, and open up your databases. You can publish your work in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and release your graphics in Flash (.swf) format - without needing any additional software.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 is now available for more users than ever, with support for complex text layout (CTL) languages (such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, and Hebrew) and vertical writing languages.

If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. However, as you become used to OpenOffice.org 1.1, you'll start to appreciate the extras that make your life easier. You can of course continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either.

More on OpenOffice here, and on its home page, www.openoffice.org

The Firemonger project provides an easy and clean web based installer for Firefox, Thunderbird, and a selection of themes and plugins to accompany them. This wonderful disk fits nicely on a compact business card CD.

The Firemonger project is dedicated to providing an easy to use CD which contains the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, the web browser and email client created by the Mozilla Foundation. In addition to these amazing products, we've added a selection of plugins, extensions and themes. In other words, this CD contains everything you need to get started with Firefox and Thunderbird. Welcome to the revolution!

More on Firemonger at its home page, www.firemonger.org

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

More on Knoppix here, and at its home page, www.knoppix.org

Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), Xpdf, Worker (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, USB support, and soon it will have PCMCIA support as well. If you like Damn Small Linux you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.

More on Damn Small here, and at its home page, www.damnsmalllinux.org

Morphix is a derivative of Knoppix, another live CD distribution. Morphix is modular; this means that it consists of a number of parts which together form a working distribution. What does this mean to a normal user? Well, that's the good part: it doesn't even know about the modules. They are invisible to it, save the startup-output on the console. So, if you don't care about how it works, just grab one of the combined ISOs and boot it! There are different pre-made cd images with a whole range of (currently GUI-centered) software. It has an easy-to-use installer, if you wish to install it to your harddisk, but it doesn't need to be installed. It doesn't touch the rest of your system without specifically asking you.

More on Morphix here, and at its home page, www.morphix.org