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| Newer page: | version 20 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:50:39 pm | 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
.
+[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 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] maintains a New Zealand mirror of TheOpenCD at http://kiaoracd.org.nz/files/ %%%
+[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
.
