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A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD
GooseLiverPate writes "Computers and Composition Online has an article by Dr. Paul Cesarini concerning the risks of a Microsoft monoculture in education. He describes the relation between Open Source and Microsoft as: "one of gnats swarming around a large, slow-moving beast." and emphasises the lack of innovation in Internet Explorer and MS-Office. He suggests TheOpenCD as a possible bridge for schools and universities to Open Source, and includes a review of the newly released version 1.2."
Please use one of the mirror sites below to download your copy of TheOpenCD (note: not all have v1.2 updates). The ISO and source tar are also available on BitTorrent. For more info on Bittorrent, click here, or click here for a BitTorrent client.
Australia World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Jason Andrade and PlanetMirror.
Austria World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Antonin Sprinzl and the Vienna University of Technology.
Belgium World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Cedric Gavage and Skynet Belgacom.
Brazil World Wide Web | Mirror courtesy of Aleck Zander and Universidade Estadual Paulista.
Canada FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas Cort and Bishop's University.
Finland FTP | Mirror courtesy of Harri Salminen and Funet.
Germany 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Daniel Lang and Informatik der Technischen Universitt Mnchen.
Germany 2 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Tom Rueger and the Universitt Bayreuth.
Germany 3 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Thomas List and SunSite Aachen.
Germany 4 FTP | Mirror courtesy of Holger Weiss and Freie Universitt Berlin.
UK World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of Yang He and UK Mirror Service.
USA 1 World Wide Web | FTP | Mirror courtesy of A. J. Wright and the The University of Tennessee.
USA 2 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Sam Chessman and Tux.org
USA 3 World Wide Web | FTP | Rsync | Mirror courtesy of Jason Holmes and the Pennsylvania State University.
USA 4 World Wide