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The Best of Windows Open Source Software?
Boiotos asks: "I'm cooking up a CD-ROM image of excellent Win32 Open Source software to give to friends and family who are intrigued by the whole OSS movement but don't know where to start. I figure once they're used to Mozilla and AbiWord under WinXP, a Linux partition would be less daunting. So fellow Slashdotters, how about it: what Win32 OSS projects deserve a place on the 650 Mb of Solid Gold? Remember, this is for non-geeks and families, so Cygwin is out (even though I love it) and games are in. Extra points, as always, to the obscure but beautiful. Finally, projects targeting only Win32 -- with no Free Unix crossover -- may apply, but will be subject to a strenuous physical test."
to include XBill!!!
a ^= b; b ^= a; a ^= b;
Oh right. Just send us the source then and it can go on the disk.
What's that Lassie? The troll forgot to hit Post Anonymously before that one?
- Chris
I see thy doubts, friend, and they ex-POSE thee! Get thee behind me, SATAN, thou foul open grave of proprietary FILTH! I banish thee in the name of TUX! Let not thy infidelity and obfuscation be a stumblin' block to the newly converted, CAN I GET AN AMEN-A!
Friends, ig-NORE the sireen call of the pay-to-play heathen that lurk in the hedgerows, clinging to the darkness, roaring like a lion, SEEKING WHOM THEY MAY DEVOUR! Open thy hearts, OPEN THY SOURCE! Come to the cleansing fountain of forgiveness from closed-sources. Do not let these Philistines halt thy progress! Come into the LIGHT! COME INTO THE LIIIIIGHT!
I neeed a nap.
Windows XP SP2 told me to install third-party software that prevents viruses and protects stability... I chose Ubuntu
I can see it now...
Me: Okay Grandma here's Putty, it's for connecting to my servers via ssh/sftp/ftp or telnet.
Grandma: [confusion on face] what was that honey?
Me: Oh come on now Grandma don't be coy. You know you've been secretly sshing into my servers to check your AOL mail via Pine.
Grandma: [with a look on her face like she just smoked a QP of weed] huh?
Me: Grandma? You still in there?
I can see it now Putty for the family, everyone huddled around the PC roasting chestnuts, securing their linux boxes, checking top to see current system utilization, running ps to see if there are any runaway processes...
lol, great post, PuTTY. I've got tears man, tears!
I'd like to nominate Anna the Chatbot, licensed under the GPL. Sure, it requires Java 2 1.4 to run, but it can be quite the way to kill some time.
And there are some lonely evenings when - waaaait....Let's not go there......
I start fourth year of a degree course in computer science in just over a week, and I'm scared of Telnet. Most families have at least one person who can program the VCR, not use unix CLI tools.
- Chris
so, ummm, there.
- Chris
Boo hoo. The registry is awesome! Reason? HKEY_CURRENT_USER is part of your roaming profile. Everything is hierarchicaly stored within it. If you ever want to transfer settings, just export a .REG file (a standard text file - be careful though, WinXP exports to Unicode text by default) and re-import it whereever you want.
Plus, the registry keeps your home directory free from dot-file clutter. Or INI file clutter, in this case.
Simply put, Registry >> INI files.
Hope he's not planning on putting this cd together quickly... just /.'d all the mirrors for these pacakages real good.
- Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
> CDex -> for converting their CDs to MP3...
fdisk -> for installing Linux!
ps - I included tags so you can tell whether this is supposed to be funny, informative, or trollish. Too bad Slashdot won't recognize the markup.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I start fourth year of a degree course in computer science in just over a week, and I'm scared of Telnet.
I cannot begin to tell you how pleased I am to hear this about my future competition in the job market. What kind of wine do your professors like? I feel like I owe them something!
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
And if they don't run screaming from the room you know you've got some future geeks on your hand. :)
KFG
no shit. i was in my (graduate) class and one guy goes "what's telnet?" ... and i think to myself.. what a wonderful world...
Yep. Alongside learning PuTTY, grandmama will be a 133+ h4x0r in no time.
I cannot begin to tell you how pleased I am to hear this about my future competition in the job market.
Competition?
He'll end up being your boss...