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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. Fred Fish by tttonyyy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heh, reminds me of the old Fred Fish disks for the Amiga, crammed with free/shareware stuff. They were great days. :)

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  2. It's interesting... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...how much my software has changed. It used to be that I'd use MS Office, Internet Explorer, Paintshop Pro, WinZIP, and other for-pay applications to get my work done. These days I find myself using FireFox, OpenOffice, JEdit, NetBeans, Cygwin, EnZIP, GIMP, and other Open Source tools. And nearly every one of them is superior to the application I replaced. Fascinating world we live in.

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  3. Re:No it isn't. by penguinoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So, would a CD Found laying around our office end up in any PC?

    Yes. There are people who read spam. There are people who open random attachments. There are people who use AOL cds. There will be people who would read an unlabled CD.

    In fact, I have a feeling that quite a few people would be interested in a CD that has a good picture and something like "Open CD" and url ending with .org on it.

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