Over the last few weeks I have received a few emails from readers about software on the Asus Eee PC, What do you use? any suggestions to applications or software for the Eee PC?

The majority of software I and many other people use these days for their day to day activities is open source. Free is a good price and the software is typically very light on resources while being extremely optimised and solid for a range of platforms.

Web Browsing

• Mozilla Firefox

Advanced Text Editors

• Notepad ++

Instant Messaging

• Pidgin

E-mail

• Mozilla Thunderbird

BitTorrent

• Azureus
• µTorrent – While µTorrent is not Open source, it does get a mention for being great.

Video

• VLC

Word Processing

• OpenOffice.org

Podcasting

• Juice

Graphics and Photo Editing

• GIMP
• Paint.NET

FTP

• Filezilla

IRC

• X-Chat 2

This very basic list of software will cover a lot of what many people will generally use their PC for, either on the go with an Eee PC or at home.