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Sneaking Open Source Software Through the Front Door

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the son-why-does-my-browser-have-tabs? dept.

the_1000th_Monkey writes "LWN daily pointed out this new project today. It aims to be 'a compilation of high quality open source software (OSS) [that] will be made available as a CD distribution in order to help promote OSS to users of Windows and MacOS.' There are hopes that this would make it easier to encourage universities, OEMS, and your parents/friends to take advantage of this software and eventually bring them over to a completely free system on their own time. Help for suggestions/discussion is being sought." Newsforge is carrying a slightly more in-depth look at this project. Anyone care to design some attractive, downloadable CD-graphic images?

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  1. Demolinux by mirko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Demolinux is a project that consists of booting Linux from a Live CD.
    This is IMHO the best Linux distro for newcomers and it looks quite like what is intended for this project : See Free Software in use without touching one's HD..

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  2. Kinda OT.. by jonnythan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But the article blurb made me think of it.

    Windows doesn't come with any horribly buggy, barely working applications. None.

    In addition, it installs one version of each "accessory" app.. calculator, notepad, browser, file manager, etc. It even puts shortcuts to them in the same place.

    I'd like to see a linux distro that includes just one stable, simple version of each type of app in a basic install. One browser, one file manager, one word processor. Having a slightly more task-oriented set of menus and shortcuts in a distro would be a cool thing to see, IMO. I remember first installing red hat 4.something.. the choices of apps confused the living daylights out of me. The way I see it, this hasn't changed all that much...

    Oh yeah, having a way to just "download and select run" to install new apps would be good for linux too ;)