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Newer page: version 19 Last edited on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:37:45 pm by BruceKingsbury Revert
Older page: version 16 Last edited on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:01:40 am by IanMcDonald Revert
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-[The Open CD | http://www.theopencd.org/] is a FreeSoftware compilation for MicrosoftWindows. It is an excellent way to gently introduce [Windows] users to the idea of FreeSoftware. It is a smaller, but more polished collection than [GnuWinII] - it comes with an actual installer and only includes software that is easy to install under MicrosoftWindows, well developed, and highly reliable. 
+[The Open CD | http://www.theopencd.org/] is a FreeSoftware compilation for MicrosoftWindows. It is an excellent way to gently introduce [Windows] users to the idea of FreeSoftware. It is a smaller, but more polished collection than [GnuWinII] - it comes with a proper CD browser (based on k-meleon) and only includes software that is easy to install under MicrosoftWindows, well developed, and highly reliable. 
  
-[TheOpenCD] contains precompiled binaries ''and'' full source for a range of OpenSource programs. 
+[TheOpenCD] contains only precompiled binaries for a range of OpenSource programs. It used to contain sources as well, but they wanted to add more programs and a 'live linux' you can boot . 
  
 [OSSWatch] have been known to give away boxfulls of copies of [TheOpenCD]. %%% 
 [PhilHarper] has been known to do a fair bit of work on [TheOpenCD] v1.2 and 1.4. %%% 
-[zcat |BruceKingsbury] keeps a recent copy of TheOpenCD (as well as [KiaoraCD] and several other Free Software CD's) at http://zcat .wired.net.nz /files/ - users outside NZ are requested to use the official mirrors . %%%  
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+The Open CD has been discontinued. [OpenDisc |http://theopendisc .com /] is a similar project, based on OpenCD but including programs such as VLC that OpenCD would not include due to Canonical's policies .