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and what about the OpenDisc, the official fork/continuation of the project?

Yes, it's exactly what I was writing about. The OpenDisc includes Firefox 6.0.1. Sorry, probably I should've added a quote for context, but I did not imagine my post would end up with more upvotes than the parent.

The Open CD project is no longer maintained, and has been succeeded by the The Open Disk effort. Highly recommended.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the OpenDisc project, which is the succesor to the OpenCD. It's a project designed to collect the highest quality open source software on a disc. There's even an education version.

I remembered one from Canonical, but here's a regularly updated one: http://www.theopendisc.com/

You can check out theopendisc.org's games and give that along with them. Those are four pretty solid games. Another thing to check out would be the open sourced quake or even freeDoom.

Are these primarily for kids? I'm also confused why you're installing XP but giving an Ubuntu CD? Live disc? That has a ton of great puzzle games you can start with and even a few decent starting learning games.

• Design:
• • Blender - 3D graphics modeling program
  • Dia - diagrams:entity-relationship models, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple circuits.
  • GIMP - manipulate digital photographs, design and export graphics for the web, convert images from one file format to another, or even produce complex high-resolution compositions for print
  • Inkscape - vector graphics editor (SVG)
  • Nvu - web page editor
  • Scribus - desktop publishing application
  • Tux Paint - drawing program designed for young children
• Games
• • Battle for Wesnoth -turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme
  • Enigma is a puzzle game
  • Neverball - you tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course
  • Sokoban YASC - Sokoban
• Internet
• • Azureus - powerful BitTorrent protocol client
  • FileZilla - fast and reliable FTP client and server
  • Firefox web browser
  • HTTrack- easy-to-use offline web browser utility
  • Pigdin- Internet Messenging (chat) client
  • RSSOwl - RSS feed reader
  • SeaMonkey - all-in-one internet suite which uses the same engine as Firefox and Thunderbird, and also includes a newsgroup client, an internet relay chat (or IRC) client, and a flexible HTML editor.
  • Thunderbird- modern email client
  • TightVNC - remote control software that lets you see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard,
  • WinSCP - fully featured SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) client.
• Multimedia
• • Audacity - sound editing program
  • Celestia - simulation of the entire universe
  • Really Slick Screensavers - collection of impressive screen savers
  • Stellarium - planetarium for your computer
  • Sumatra PDF - flexible and lightweight PDF reader
  • VLC - media player
• Productivity
• • GnuCash - personal and small-business financial-accounting software
  • MoinMoin - wiki locally on your own computer to help you stay organised,
  • Notepad2 - Notepad with color syntax highlighting
  • OpenOffice - full-featured productivity suite including a word processor, spreadsheet, web page editor and presentation program.
  • PDFCreator - generate PDF documents directly from any Windows program.
• Utilities
• • 7-Zip - program for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files.
  • Abakt - flexible backup tool for Windows
  • Clamwin - powerful anti-virus program
  • GTK+ - multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
  • HealthMonitor is a powerful and feature filled monitoring tool.
  • TrueCrypt - powerful encryption software
  • Workrave - assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

Full of free software for Winders.

http://www.schoolforge.net/education-software
http://www.theopendisc.com/education/

Check out OpenEducationDisc and OpenDisc.

Check out OpenEducationDisc and OpenDisc.

http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/index.htm (The TTCS OSSWIN CD)

http://theopendisc.com/ (replaced The OpenCD)

http://softwarefor.org/ (Software for Starving Students)

I've read a few comments touching on the point that you can teach kiddies what you like at school, but when they want to work at home and they can't, you snuff out that enthusiasm. I'm a teacher and we distribute http://www.theopendisc.com/education which is great for home use. The school have even started using some of the tools. Those educational software licences can be a real killer. especially with the yearly 'subscriptions'

You can give the students a copy of The Open Disc on the first day of class. I doubt Adobe would be pleased if you did the same for their products.

Kudos to CNet for promoting FOSS. Lots of good programs listed. A link to http://theopendisc.com/ would've also been nice. More programs, more alternatives.

After teaching in a London school for 3 years I can agree. Burdening poor families with the cost of this software to use at home is awful and discriminatory. I have been pushing the OpenEducationDisc http://www.theopendisc.com/education and we now distribute it to all the kids who want it. Microsoft have even admitted that piracy does them good in schools. Stop picking on the little man!