The distribution should have all these softwares. Please add any application left out

Graphics:

• The GIMP - free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop
• F-Spot - full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop
• Google Picasa - application for organizing and editing digital photos
• gthumb image viewer
• blender-3d
• image magik

Internet:

• Firefox
• Opera
• Flash Player 9
• gFTP - multithreaded FTP client
• Thunderbird - email and news client
• Evolution - combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions
• aMule - P2P file sharing application
• Bittorrent client
• Azureus - Java Bittorrent client
• Transmission - Very basic Bittorrent client. Allows you to leech!
• Gaim - multi-platform instant messaging client
• Skype
• Google Earth
• Xchat IRC - IRC client
• sea monkey
• pine
• httrack downloades
• wget-gui:xget
• kpopup - to chat with windows comps

Office:

• Abiword
• OpenOffice Writer - replacement for Microsoft Word
• OpenOffice Calc - replacement for Microsoft Excel
• OpenOffice Impress - replacement for Microsoft Powerpoint
• Adobe Reader
• evince
• xpdf
• kpdf
• GnuCash - double-entry book-keeping personal finance system, similar to Quicken
• Scribus - open source desktop publishing (DTP) application

Sound & Video:

• Amarok - audio player
• Audacity - free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor
• Banshee - audio player, can encode/decode various formats and synchronize music with Apple iPods
• MPlayer - media player (video/audio), supports WMA
• Rhythmbox Music Player - audio player, similar to Apple's iTunes, with support for iPods
• gtkPod - software similar to Apple's iTunes, supports iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod photo, and iPod mini
• XMMS - audio player similar to Winamp
• dvd::rip - full featured DVD copy program
• Kino - free digital video editor
• Sound Juicer CD Extractor - CD ripping tool, supports various audio codecs
• VLC Media Player - media player (video/audio)
• Real Player
• Totem - media player (video/audio)
• Xine - media player, supports various formats; can play DVDs
• GnomeBaker - CD/DVD burning program
• K3B - CD/DVD burning program
• Multimedia-Codecs
• avidemux - video cutter
• mpg123 

Programming:

• Nvu - WYSIWYG HTML editor, similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, but not as feature-rich (yet)
• Bluefish - text editor, suitable for many programming and markup languages
• Quanta Plus - web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor
• eclipse
• anjuta
• kdevelop
• qt
• gtk
• gphpedit
• screem
• codeblocks
• java,python, perl, ruby, support
• matlab

Other:

• VMware Server - lets you run your old Windows desktop as a virtual machine under your Linux desktop, so you don't have to entirely abandon Windows
• TrueType fonts
• Java
• Read/Write support for NTFS partitions
• vncservers/vncviewer
• wireshark
• dc++

 Games:

•    quake
• pingus
• xmoto
• gnome-games
• counter strike

Admin tools:

• gparted
• ftp server
• http server
• LVM
• samba server

• network config tool

Issues to be taken care of :

Installation of Linux in laptops (preloaded with windows, proprietary  hardware and single partition problems)

wireless and bluetooth configuration

ask ppl for any extra s/w required for their projects/etc

audio and video card support by default

migration support from windows

Artwork

DVD Cover

please give comments on the dvd cover .. i just arbitly came up with the idea .. thansk - msk