Posted by Danny Sanchez on January 02nd 2007 to
random stuff 
Being not far from my Ramen noodle-eating, credit card-maxing days, this neat software package really captured my heart. Software for Starving Students is a package of free applications designed to help you get through school without plunking down change for expensive Microsoft products.
While I haven’t delved into all the software that comes on the downloadable CD file, here’s the list:
7-Zip
Ant Renamer
Audacity
Blender
BZFlag
Celestia
ClamWin
DeepBurner Free
Dia
Enigma
Eraser
Exact Audio Copy
FileZilla
Firefox
Freeciv
Gaim
GIMPShop
GLtron
GNU Chess
Icebreaker
Inkscape
Juice Receiver
KeePass
MozBackup
NVU
OpenOffice.org
Paint.NET
PDFCreator
Portable Apps
POV-Ray
PuTTY
SolarWolf
Spybot S&D
Stellarium
SuperTux
The GIMP Toolkit
Thunderbird
Tortoise SVN
Tux Paint
Tux Racer
Tux Typing 2
VLC
WinDirStat
Wink
winLAME
WinSCP
XAMPP
µTorrent
[Via Lifehacker, Ramen photo by pain_amp1013]
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Always glad to see the free software promoted! I like to remind folks that OpenOffice.org includes an excellent drawing program. Combine it (Draw) with Gimp or Gimpshop and you’ve got a lot of graphics power.