"As a consultant to small businesses trying to get up to speed on Linux, my must-have applications are OpenOffice.org, MySQLAdmin, and Rekall. I'm going to include Knoppix as well; although it isn't an application in the sense of being a single package, I use it as a system recovery tool rather than an operating system.
"OpenOffice.org is the key to operating my consulting business and the first application I install from TheOpenCD when I go into a new shop..."
