IT/GNU

Total commander - two pane Windows file manager
PSPad editor - directly edit files on FTP (linux alternative (partial): File pane extension in gedit)
Opera browser

IrfanView - picture viewer, converter, resizer, saving screenshots [(alt+)printscreen, ctrl+v]
PrimoPDF - PDF converter (acts as a printer)
MiKTeX - typesetting program
Filezilla - FTP/SFTP client (w SSL)
WinSCP - FTP/SSL client (SFTP slow!)
Putty - SSH client
VLC media player
Xming - Xserver for MS Windows - X11 forwarding using putty + Xming - needed to: export DISPLAY=0:10.0

It is possible to burn CD-sized (700MB) .iso file (e.g. of a linux distro) onto DVD medium.
Install Ubuntu from USB stick
MultiBoot USB with Grub2 (boot directly from iso files)
Installing Debian from USB drive - debootstrap - install Ubuntu/Debian from arbitrary Unix (booted from flash e.g.)

XFCE Desktop | LXDE Desktop
VIM editor | SciTE - editor capable of Ctrl+Tab last used order switching
SMPlayer frontend to MPlayer (+ mplayerplug-in)
DejaVu fonts | Liberation Fonts - metric compatible (the same size of corresponding glyphs) with Arial, Times, Courier New
sshfs - mount sftp to a dir from userspace | curlftpfs - mount ftp to a dir from userspace (unfortunatelly, slow as hell!)
gparted - partition editor
GIMP - graphic editor
Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla
Apache web server | PHP scripting language
winetricks

Adam Purkrt