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| Newer page: | version 17 | Last edited on Friday, September 15, 2006 7:50:41 am | 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.
-[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. %%%
