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TheOpenCD 2.0 Released
HenrikOxUK pastes "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0. The disc contains old favorites like Mozilla, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Gimp in updated versions, but also has some noteable additions like Firefox, Thunderbird, Blender and Gaim. The CD browser technology is also new this time, and is based on Gecko (see screenshots). This approach should make it simpler to make derivatives, including localized versions, some of which will be out shortly. We have timed the release to be out just before the holidays so you can fill the stockings of friends and family with Free and useful software. Read more or get a copy from one of our FTP mirrors or on Bittorrent."
TheOpenCD is a small collection of only the highest quality OSS for Windows, easily available on a CD. The programs are carefully selected to ensure stability, ease of use and a clean install and un-install from your computer. The CD is intended as a first introduction to the world of OSS, but it is our hope that you will later go on to explore other projects, and at some stage you may even want to try a whole new operating system, such as Linux (sometimes called GNU/Linux).
Well, if you want someone to take the time to burn you a CD and send it to you, its a fair assumption that you'll have to pay for the blank CD, postage and packaging and perhaps a little for the time it takes to burn it...
Although it seems that you can download the CD for free from the mirrors?
This might be useful for the large masses of people who do not yet have broadband,you know there still are some of those out there..
From memory, it is a CD of Open Source programs (like the ones mentioned in the blurb) for Windows. It's a bit like gnuwin, which probably isn't /.'ed yet.
See what I've been reading.
TheOpenCD is a collection of free software that runs on Windows and is handy for spreading free software "love" to people who would never think to run Linux. It's an attempt to show people that free doesn't have to equate to low quality or lack of features.
Besides the above raison d'etre, I think it's great to have around for the times when a machine doesn't have MS Word installed or a decent ZIP utility, or a decent graphics editing package.
I'm glad to see that Blender has been added. The Blender created trailers on the previous version were a tease
90% of everything is crap. Also, crap is relative.
RELEASE NOTES - TheOpenCD v2.0
TheOpenCD project is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of our Windows-FOSS distribution. We have timed the release to be out just before the holidays so you can fill the stockings of friends and family with Free and useful software. Major additions in this version include Firefox, Thunderbird, Blender and Gaim. The CD browser technology is also new this time, and is based on Gecko. This approach should make it simpler to make derivatives, including localized versions, some of which will be out shortly.
The following programs are included:
* Productivity
o OpenOffice 1.1.3
o AbiWord 2.2.1
o PDFCreator 0.8
* Design
o GIMP 2.0.5
o Blender 2.35a
o Dia 0.94
o TuxPaint 0.9.14
* Internet/Networking
o FireFox 1.0
o Thunderbird 1.0
o Mozilla suite 1.7.3
o Gaim 1.1.0
o Filezilla 2.2.9
o TightVNC 1.3dev6
o WinHTTrack 3.32-2
* Multimedia
o Audacity 1.2.3
o Celestia 1.3.2
o CDex 1.51
* Utilities
o 7-zip 3.13
o Notepad2 1.0.12
o SciTE 1.62
* Games
o Sokoban 1.187
o Battle for Wesnoth 0.87
o Lbreakout 2.4.1
About TheOpenCD:
TheOpenCD is a small collection of only the highest quality OSS for Windows, easily available on a CD. The programs are carefully selected to ensure stability, ease of use and a clean install and un-install from your computer. The CD is intended as a first introduction to the world of OSS, but it is our hope that you will later go on to explore other projects, and at some stage you may even want to try a whole new operating system, such as Linux (sometimes called GNU/Linux).
TheOpenCD 2.0 released
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of TheOpenCD v2.0. The disc contains old favorites like Mozilla, OpenOffice, AbiWord, Gimp in updated versions, but also has some noteable additions like Firefox, Thunderbird, Blender and Gaim. The CD browser technology is also new this time, and is based on Gecko (see screenshots). This approach should make it simpler to make derivatives, including localized versions, some of which will be out shortly. We have timed the release to be out just before the holidays so you can fill the stockings of friends and family with Free and useful software. Get a copy from one of our FTP mirrors or on Bittorrent.
The following programs are included:
Productivity
* OpenOffice 1.1.3
* AbiWord 2.2.1
* PDFCreator 0.8
Design
* GIMP 2.0.5
* Blender 2.35a
* Dia 0.94
* TuxPaint 0.9.14
Internet/Networking
* FireFox 1.0
* Thunderbird 1.0
* Mozilla suite 1.7.3
* Gaim 1.1.0
* Filezilla 2.2.9
* TightVNC 1.3dev6
* WinHTTrack 3.32-2
Multimedia
* Audacity 1.2.3
* Celestia 1.3.2
* CDex 1.51
Utilities
* 7-zip 3.13
* Notepad2 1.0.12
* SciTE 1.62
Games
* Sokoban 1.187
* Battle for Wesnoth 0.8.8
* Lbreakout 2.4.1
With this release we also start a long-term working relationship with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. We include a brief introduction to Ubuntu in our browser and will continue to supply technology and expertise to the Ubuntu LiveCD.
About TheOpenCD
TheOpenCD is a small collection of only the highest quality OSS for Windows, easily available on a CD. The programs are carefully selected to ensure stability, ease of use and a clean install and un-install from your computer. The CD is intended as a first introduction to the world of OSS, but it is our hope that you will later go on to explore other projects, and at some stage you may even want to try a whole new operating system, such as Linux (sometimes called GNU/Linux).
-- TheOpenCD Team
Religion and science are both 90% crap..but that doesn't negate the other 10%.
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and version 2.0
See what I've been reading.
http://hirisemultimedia.com/TOCD2.iso.bz2.torrent http://www.theopencd.net/torrent/TOCD2.iso.bz2.tor rent
KNOPPIX 3.7 has just been released
Crank up your torrents!
For those who don't already know, (quoting the site), "KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it."
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
Mozilla is a full service suite, browser, mail client, HTML editor. FF is a lean mean browsing machine. Smaller footprint.
Save a Life. Donate Blood. Please.
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/OpenCD/a yreuth.de/pub/pc/TheOpenCD/a tik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /opencd/o ws/tools/t he_open_cd/releases/n cd/f unet.fi/pub/mirrors/theopencd.org/TheOp enCD// /www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gd.tuwien.ac.at/ pc/OpenCD/s /opencd/ /ftp.heanet.ie/pub/TheOpenCD/c a/pub/windows/opencd/
ftp://ftp.uni-b
ftp://sunsite.inform
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/wind
ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/ope
ftp://neacm.fe.up.pt/pub/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.
ftp://theopencd.hands.com/theopencd/
ftp:
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/window
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/opencd/
ftp:
ftp://cs.ubishops.
You, my friend, are an idiot... There's a .torrent link in the story summary.
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
That's true, we are partnering with Ubuntu. The current version of the Ubuntu LiveCD has a scaled-down version of TheOpenCD on it. Get your copy here.
In general, all of them. I think a few apps only work on 2000/XP.
I am trolling
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/OpenCD/r /opencd/ t he_open_cd/releases/ p enCD/ / pc/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/pc/TheOpenCD/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirro
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/windows/tools/
ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/opencd/
ftp://neacm.fe.up.pt/pub/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/theopencd.org/TheO
ftp://theopencd.hands.com/theopencd/
ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gd.tuwien.ac.at
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/windows/opencd
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/opencd/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/TheOpenCD/
ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/windows/opencd/
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Here. /.ing the main site wasn't enough)
(as if
www.bestofopenoffice.com
Feel free to send this link to friends/relatives that do not have high bandwidth downloads...
If I remember correctly, AVG, Ad-Aware, and Spybot all prohibit redistribution, other than downloading directly from their site.
This hurts the "burn and give to your friends" approach.
There's a Windows (2k/xp) Firewall on sourceforge, but it's 'not quite there yet' and IMHO neither is clamav..
.cpl, etc) then scan the remaining mail with clamav just in case..
. it doesn't detect polymorphic viruses. I'm not sure how common these are, but it disturbs me that there's a whole class of viruses clamav can't see.
. it doesn't scan on demand. Every other virus scanner does this by default.
. Although there's a plugin for Outlook, that's the only mailer supported. Most people use OE. many use Thunderbird or Mozilla and while these are resistant to most viruses users can still run attachments if they try hard enough. Clamwin doesn't intercept and scan pop3 or imap yet.
If you want a Free firewall for your windows box dig out an old p133 and install one of the many 'linux firewall' projects. If you want Free virus scanning for your windows box install procmail on this linux firewall and dump all the file-types that only ever get used by viruses (.scr,
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