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TheOpenCD 1.4 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gnuvangelism dept.

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."

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  1. Torrent by r84x · · Score: 4, Informative
    sorry about whoring...

    but just in case...

    torrent

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    1. Re:Torrent by delta407 · · Score: 4, Informative
      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...
    2. Re:Torrent by ttldkns · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  2. CD Program Contents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. previous coverage by werdnapk · · Score: 4, Informative

    previous coverage here and here

  4. Also take a look.. by Karamchand · · Score: 4, Informative

    ..at GNUWin II, a similar project.

  5. Re:Oh great by r84x · · Score: 4, Informative
    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?

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  6. Re:Oh great by uberjoe · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  7. Another free CD that is handy by saskboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

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  8. Re:Oh great by cybermace5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  9. Re:No firewall? by NineNine · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  10. More by aking137 · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.