Open-source software

I’ve had a newspaper cutout from the independent for some time now which lists some “essential open-source downloads”.  I thought it was about time I made a record of these and then threw the paper away.  A link to the online article is here and the programs covered are;

• openoffice – office software
• gimp – image manipulator
• avg – anti-virus
• videolan – media player
• audacity – digital audio editor
• inkscape – vector graphics editor
• nvu – web-page creator
• thunderbird – e-mail

I’ve used openoffice, had a look at gimp and I make regular use of avg and audacity.  I would add firefox to this, my web browser of choice.  Anyone used the others?