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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."
Well, the site is hopelessly slashdotted, so what is OpenCD? Is it just a collection of open source programs on a CD or what? What is the reasoning behind it, and what is it meant to do?
Thanks for the info.
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..
While this is great for open source advocates... there still resides a contingent of resistant people that see open source as nothing more that 'a fad' or 'over-hyped'. A cd is great for trying to package all of these apps together but what open source really needs is a marketing plan.
If i'm an average joe, my first question is 'why should i use open-source?" not where do i get it from?
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).
Well my little brother is a bit of a budding hacker. He's really into Blender and Python right now. He probably doesn't really need this CD since he's got his own setup already, but it's always good to encourage kids to get into this stuff at an early age.
With Microsoft and recently and more chillingly the government itself constantly chipping away at our freedoms, it's crucial to make sure we bring up a new generation of programmers who understand their civic responsibility to protect freedom of speech, whether its political or digital.
If we don't keep the ranks of young hackers swelling, we can expect Microsoft to take over. Without a constant stream of competitive free GPL's software and other viruses, their ascendency is just a matter of time. Give the the gift of resistance!
A Proud Member of the Reality Oriented Community.
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and version 2.0
See what I've been reading.
Never try and talk anyone into anything. Instead, show them. Give them some software.
Once they convince themselves, mention that it is open source and that there's more where that came from. You will find that they begin to look for OSS instead of asking what it is...and they might even ask what makes something OSS vs. freeware or addware.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
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.
"what open source really needs is a marketing plan"
I hear this often, but why? Nobody is making money off open source, many are doing it as a hobby. Do I need a marketing plan to go build paper airplanes? Or even to share my paper airplane designs?
OpenSource is great (IMHO) because you can use if you want, and ignore it if you don't want it.
Leave it to those that are trying to make money (RedHat, IBM, Sun, Novell, etc) to do the marketing.
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
Open CD is a nice idea, but I've been doing this sort of thing myself for a long time.
I include, at a minimum:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Open Office
Latest AVG free Antivirus download
Ad Aware
Spybot Search and Destroy
Zone Alarm free version
XP security utilities from GRC.com
I keep these installs in a directory on my HD and update as new versions come out. Then, when I want to give one to someone, it's easy to burn a fresh copy. I usually carry one with me in my briefcase along with a Knoppix Live CD and a Xandros free version Install disk (in case I get a convert). These have been useful a number of times.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
That's the point of the OpenCD. The conversation is sopposed to go like this:
Average Joe Why should i use open-source? OS Advocate Here, I'll show you.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.
Thirty seconds ago I finished collecting, burning and giving most of this software for a friend - along with zonealarm, avg antivirus, etc - whose computer has been zombied, specifically because OpenCD was too out of date. Then I open /. and see this. Ain't that always the way?
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.
Let's dump the pub tonite and hit the download site...
So, do you sit and stare at your monitor for hours, watching each and every download? Call me crazy, but if I want to download something big, I'll start it, which generally takes all of 30 seconds, then leave to go to the pub (or the bar). Not a big fan of sitting watching a progress bar myself, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
I don't respond to AC's.
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...
Why hasn't anyone created an open source spyware cleaner yet? I think that would be a perfect OSS project, since it's continually changing and needs lots of eyes to keep up to date.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
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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Precisely because Gaim is cross-platform. The aim is to eventually draw people over to Linux, and a good way to do that is to get them using the same apps on the Windows platform first.