TheOpenCD 1.4 Released

Lykos writes "From OpenCD's website: 'TheOpenCD is a collection of high quality Free and Open Source Software. The programs run in Windows and cover the most common tasks such as word processing, presentations, e-mail, web browsing, web design, and image manipulation.' This is a great little package to leave lying around your friends' workplace to convince them to go opensource. =) Lots of quality programs in one convenient package."

Comments

Torrent

[r84x]

sorry about whoring...

but just in case...

torrent

Re:Torrent

[delta407]

Anyone have another copy of this .torrent somewhere?

Certainly. It's amazing what `wget` can do with patient timeouts.

Though, given what happened to the .torrent, I'm somewhat concerned about the availability of their tracker...

Re:Torrent

[ttldkns]

i got it and i put it up in these places one here
and here

CD Program Contents

[Anonymous Coward]

already slow... here's the cd list...

Office & Design
OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, PDFCreator, GIMP

Internet & Communication
Mozilla, Miranda IM, FileZilla, TightVNC, WinHTTrack, PuTTY

Multimedia & Games
Audacity, CDex, Tux Paint, Crack Attack!, Sokoban YASC,
Neverball, Celestia, Really Slick Screensavers

Utilities & Other
7-Zip, SciTE, WinPT, NetTime

previous coverage

[werdnapk]

previous coverage here and here

Also take a look..

[Karamchand]

..at GNUWin II, a similar project.

Re:Oh great

[r84x]

Now we'll see this CD turning up on eBay. There's a surprising amount of people selling Free software to uninformed people.

Like this?

Mirror here

[broothal]

Poor webserver is already bending over backwards. Find your mirror here.

Re:Oh great

[uberjoe]

I sell OSS on ebay, and we are not taking advantage of the uninformed. I like to think we are providing a service to all the poor modem users out there who cannot download a multi-cd set of software. Besides I only charge a small "media fee" and shipping.

Another free CD that is handy

[saskboy]

The Ultimate Boot CD

This CD and the Open CD are about all you need to get your friends computer working in tip top shape.

http://ubcd.sf.net/

Re:Oh great

[cybermace5]

No, I'm talking about people who sell programs like OpenOffice under some other name, and do not mention at all that it is free. I'm talking about sellers like this.

Re:No firewall?

[NineNine]

I use free-av.com. Best virus app I've seen, and it's 100% free for personal use. It's updated almost daily, and it doesn't cause problems like Norton & McAffee.

Re:Mirror For TheOpenCD ISO

[jonman_d]

Keep in mind that these aren't the latest ISO files. If you look at the dates, you can see that they're from 2003.

It's probably going to take a little while for all the mirrors to catch up with the latest release (especially with this slashdotting...)

More

[aking137]

This is a great idea, but there's not a great deal on there. I've been making up CDs full of free and open source Windows software for a couple of years now, which (along with Knoppix and Toms) prove to be extremely useful. Here's just some of what's on there (note that some of the links don't actually point to the Windows version of that software; you might need to dig around a bit):

• Abiword - Word processor, supports .doc, .rtf, GPL.
• Open Office - Whole Office suite, including a database frontend and BASIC macro language.
• Perl - Scripting language
• Python - Scripting language
• Cygwin - UNIX emulator. Can create Windows programs, reliant on a cygwin1.dll.
• MinGW - Port of some of the UNIX utilities (BASH, gcc, vi...) to Windows.
• djgpp - UNIX emulator for DOS.
• Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird - Web browser, e-mail client, IRC client, lots more.
• Filezilla - FTP client.
• xchat - IRC client.
• putty, pscp, psftp and others - Telnet/SSH clients.
• Gaim - Client for IRC/Yahoo/MSN/ICQ/AIM and more.
• gzip - Compression (usually better than .zip).
• tar - Extracts/Makes tar archives.
• bzip2 - Totally ace compression (usually better than gzip).
• Info-ZIP - Support for .zip. Good free substitute for Winzip.
• 7-zip - Support for multiple compression formats.
• frhed - Hex editor
• Ext2fs - Several programs for doing Ext2 under Windows.
• Antiword - Converts documents out of the proprietary .doc format.
• MySQL - RDBMS.
• Apache - Web/Proxy server
• sendmail - Mail server
• squid - Proxy server
• freeamp - Audio player
• winlame - MP3 encoder
• cd-ex - MP3/OGG encoder?
• gimp - Very detailed graphics program.
• imagemagick - Graphic manipulation. Provides the 'convert' utility under UNIX.
• freeciv - Civilisation clone.
• gnuplot - Plotting package.
• TightVNC - A fork of VNC, with enhancements.
• RealVNC - The original VNC.
• rdesktop - Access Windows Terminal Services and Remote Desktops.
• Nmap - Well known port scanner.
• John the Ripper - Password cracker. Does NT and MD5.

Disable Themes Service

[worldcitizen]

Better than revert to the classic theme: Disable the "Themes" service. In addition to de-uglifying your desktop you'll get back some memory and cpu cycles. Even if you have plenty of both, it is one less process that can potentially crash/be hacked.