in addition to distributions, how about a set of the following packages/programs you often use but are just painful to track down and remember which ones you want...
Some of them are sometimes included with distributions, and some of them have pretty good open source alternatives as well: intel compiler (C/C++ *and* fortran) flash realplayer acroread skype <any more suggestions?> There's some legality issues here, e.g. we most certainly cannot make this available to the community outside. peter
