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Newer page: | version 21 | Last edited on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:14:43 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
Older page: | version 18 | Last edited on Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:40:13 am | by BruceKingsbury | 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 a proper CD browser (
based on k-meleon) and only includes software that is easy to install under MicrosoftWindows, well developed, and highly reliable.
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[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.
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[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] maintains a New Zealand mirror of TheOpenCD at http://kiaoracd.org
.nz/files/ %%%
+[The Open CD | http://www.theopencd.org/] was
a FreeSoftware compilation for MicrosoftWindows. The 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
. The latter
is based on [TheOpenCD] but includes applications such
as [VLC
] that
[TheOpenCD] would not include due
to [Canonical
]'s policies
.