If you are looking to enter the exciting world of open source technologies yourself, but don't know where to start, we recommend that you set up the 'Project2Office' environment that we have defined and use. This is a laptop environment based entirely on open source technologies. All employees of Infra Support AG and the Studentlab organization use this environment as standard. The following components are installed:

• Oracle Virtual Box
• Ubuntu (64-bit)
• LibreOffice
• PyCharm CE
• Visual Studio Code
• VLC
• IDEA Community from JetBrains (for Kotlin development)
• OpenVPN
• JRE Java Runtime
• Eclipse IDE
• CIFS
• GIT
• Kotlin
• Zoom Video Conferencing Client:
• Curlftpfs
• Curl
• Docker
• Docker-Compose
• net-tools
• PostgreSQL
• PgAdmin4
• ldap-utils
• SQLite3
• SSH to connect with Putty
• OpenVPN
• Mattermost client
• Spotify

We are happy to provide the detailed installation instructions. 'Project2Office' is 100% open source and therefore free of charge.