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| Newer page: | version 20 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:50:39 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/] was
a FreeSoftware compilation for MicrosoftWindows. TheOpenCD as a project has been discontinued, although some of the technology
is still used in the OSS-for-
Windows section of
the Ubuntu CDs
and in OpenDisc
.
-[TheOpenCD] contains precompiled binaries ''and'' full source for a range of OpenSource programs.
-
-[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
. %%%
+[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
.
