Research Workstations - default software loads

This is to plan the complete lab re-install for Summer 2005.

Windows XP SP2

All latest patches.

Software Update Services - Automated Windows Updates
Firefox browser
- Set as default browser.
Microsoft Office
PC-Cillin
- talk to ACS about newer/alternative (we currently have pc-cillin 2004)
StarOffice - what about OpenOffice 2.0?
K2 client
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
- Set this as default .pdf handler
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe ImageReady
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe InDesign
Adobe GoLive!
Adobe Illustrator
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Fireworks
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia Freehand
WinSCP
- include defaults for connecting to tirpitz, surrey, and fraser
Pantone Colorvision OPTICAL (colour-profiling)
ASUS Probe
- motherboard monitoring
Java
- at least JRE, preferably J2SE SDK
- Sun or one of the alternatives? IBM/BEA JRockit appears to be very good.
nVidia video
- latest unified driver, for FX5200 / FX5600 cards
PuTTY
- Defaults for fraser and our shell box?
Nero (CD/DVD burning)
Quicktime
iTunes
RealPlayer
BitTorrent client
- Don't see a need for this, since OTS firewalls BitTorrent
Lexmark T630-capable printer drivers
HP 4600n-capable printer drivers

Complete install of SuSE 9.3 Pro.

Auto-update.
Both KDE and GNOME, maybe some other WMs too.
Development tools
- Eclipse
- KDevelop
- Fortran stuff
FireFox web-browser
mplayer
- fully working!!! DeCSS, MP3, etc
BitTorrent client (Azureus?)
- Don't see a need for this, since OTS firewalls BitTorrent