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I’m more seriously investigating the feasability of moving my main desktop environment to Linux.
I’ve just found a package of fonts vital for the web that has brought me one step closer.

It contains Verdana, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Arial, Trebuchet, Comic Sans, Impact and others

http://avi.alkalay.net/software/webcore-fonts/

Reference:
http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO/fonts.html

Hi,
This is just a heads up. Sitepoint are launching a new CSS reference that sounds very promising. They’ve hinted in the latest newsletter that you’ll need a Sitepoint forums account for access to it.. and I’m guessing they might be charging people who don’t have one created before Dec 1st for access.

Their technical writing has been excellent to date, so I think it’d be worth your while signing up for an account.

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“So, when’s this fancy reference launching, anyway?” you ask. That I can’t tell you just yet. But I can tell you that you’d better make sure you have a SitePoint Forums account by December 1st, or you’ll be disappointed!
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Create an account here…
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/register.php

Hope it turns out nice!

This is a small selection of the open source desktop software I use. As with most open source stuff, I believe they are all cross software to some degree and they are all really useful. Apps I’d struggle to live without now I use them regularly!

Firefox
The bestest web browser ever for starters and then the plugins launch it to another level.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Inkscape
Vector graphic editor
http://www.inkscape.org/

GIMP
Image editing software
http://www.gimp.org/

Pidgin
Instant messenging software that is actually nice to use
http://www.pidgin.im/ -windows
http://www.adiumx.com/ - mac

Vector Magic
An raster(bitmap) to vector converter that actually works! (online tool)
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Audacity
Multi-track audio editing software
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

KeePass
Secure password store and manager - just vital these days
http://keepass.info/ - windows
http://www.keepassx.org/ - linux

Open Office
A full office suite that opens and saves to MS Office or open formats.. the featureset definitely surpasses MS Office 2000 and I’ve heard the same said for MS Office 2003 (I switched to openoffice rather than pay for MS Office 2003 so can’t offer a real opinion)
http://www.openoffice.org/