Imagery and pictures are here to stay! and you can spend a small fortune on an image manipulation application. The GIMP will keep pace with the best of them in terms of ability and it's absolutely free for all platforms...another powerfull package full of LOVE from the good folks at GNU

There are many different versions of the Linux Operating System available today, most of them are free! Commercial versions are also for sale and they do offer some form of product support. Free versions don't generally offer formal support but the amount of documentation and support forums on the web will resolve most issues. Slackware was the first Linux distribution ever released (1993) and it's always been free. Slackware will run on any hardware architecture domestic, industrial or commercial.

Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web site development application for the Linux/KDE-Desktop environment. Quanta Plus is to Linux as Dreamweaver is to Windows.

A FTP Client to transfer the website files from my local machine to the web server. gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for UNIX based machines.

The mighty Unix terminal, still alive and kicking after 30 years and they are still writing books about it. The real geek's favourite and more powerfull than ever.

The most loved, feared and envied of all the Unix users, the ADMINISTRATOR or ROOT account, the infallible one, mostly benefactor, but sometimes judge, jury and executioner !