What software is offered by the CS Department to students, faculty and staff?

Microsoft Products: The MSDN Academic Alliance Program enables eligible students and faculty members to access software available under the Program. E-Academy Inc., a partner of Microsoft, is providing ELMS for MSDNAA to us. If you have not received an email from elms_support@e-academy.com with a subject of "You are Registered!" just email admin@cs.montana.edu and request enrollment into the ELMS/MSDNAA program.

Anti-virus software: MSU has licensed McAfee for students, staff and faculty to use.  Please see the sites linked to below for specifics.

MSU Student McAfee anti-virus software
http://software.montana.edu/mcafee/
(MSU Domain Username/Password authentication required)

MSU Staff and Faculty McAfee anti-virus software
http://software.montana.edu/mcafeestaff/index.php
(MSU Domain Username/Password authentication required)

Local Downloads: Some utility software that CS students might find useful:
SSH and SCP client for Windows - SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe
X11 Server for Windows - xcursion.zip

Linux Distributions: ISO images for download over the LAN: CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian... just browse http://img.cs.montana.edu/linux/.

Free Software: The use of quality, multi-platform Free and Open Source Software is encouraged. Some popular FOSS titles: GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Blender, Inkscape and Scribus.

Check for local copies by browsing http://img.cs.montana.edu/. Also visit Freshmeat, the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software.