Someone should set up an alternative contest to make a film about why sharing ideas is a good thing. Even if this turns out to be a hoax, this positive competition would be cool anyway.
£2000 is not that much, we can match that:) If someone is willing to do the org work, I'd be happy to put up the £2000 (donations might increase that sum and/or reduce my share). The project would need a good website and would need to have the same deadline as the MSFT competition (July 1st). Ideally the effort should tie in with the Creative Commons group UK and possibly Software Freedom Day.
... is a turn based fantasy game that runs on Win, Mac and Linux. It's very playable and it's Free! See a description and screenshots at TheOpenCD site. Everything will work well with the headmouse, no problem.
Please re-read my post. We are using K-meleon for this exact purpose. With a few minor tweaks to the ini files we can get it to run directly from the CD (no re-compile or anything). If you don't believe me, just download a copy of TheOpenCD or Ubuntu Live and run it. It works. Today.
No, the standard version is only English, but the new HTML-based system makes modification (and therefore translation) very easy. Several translations are nearly complete, so look for localized versions soon. Stop by the forum and wiki for details (when the/.ing dies down). Also look for a much better translation infrastructure for the next release, planned for April.
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.
It's really not meant to be downloded by the average Windows user, but by you, the power user. You are meant to burn copies for your friends. I could have made a self-extracting 7-zip archive which would have been even smaller, but that would have been useless for Linux users to download and burn. If it was made for windows users to download directly it would have been a download portal instead of an ISO image.
The reason it's zipped at all is mainly due to OpenOffice not compressing their Win installer anymore. It's now a full 150 MB (60MB compressed). The original ISO was ~620MB, the bzip file is ~435MB.
most likly quite a bit less then the OpenCD.
Yes, only 7 apps. But it uses the same CD browser as TheOpenCD and was in fact made by the same people. (look for more such stuff in the future...)
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).
One problem with generating electricity (or running a car) with fossil fuels is that it puts net energy into the global atmosphere. (theremal differences cause air-flows, ie. wind) This is one of the few ways of taking that energy out again, so it can only be a good thing. Solar energy, use of waste-heat from industry, etc. have similar net benefits.
When you use that energy to light your house or play music, most of it ends up as heat again anyway, feeding the system, but at least this way we are not generating net heat while creating the electricity in the first place. To put it differently: it's electricity production with a minimal entropy increase.
Thanks. Phil Harper, Frederick Noronha, Matt Oquist and Jules Siedenburg were also key organisers of SFD and a large number of local team leaders and participants did an excellent job too!
On August 28, 2004 -- the last Saturday in the month -- some 200 students gathered to mark Software Freedom Day at the Rayeshwar Institute of Technology, in Goa.
This three-years young engineering college is seated atop a hilltop at the seemingly remote village of Shiroda, about 40 kilometres from Goa's state-capital Panaji (also called Panjim). Goa has 1.4 million inhabitants, and is a former Portuguese colony along the Indian west coast. ...
Among the speakers was former Goa education minister Subhash Shirodkar, who said:
"The idea of freedom needs to be strong in this country of Mahatma Gandhi. I would never tolerate the clutches of bondage -- whether it is economic or educational,"
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It should be: http://www.canonical.com/
It might be good to sponsor some teams for Software Freedom Day this year to help spread general awareness of Linux and FOSS in general.
Someone should set up an alternative contest to make a film about why sharing ideas is a good thing. Even if this turns out to be a hoax, this positive competition would be cool anyway.
:) If someone is willing to do the org work, I'd be happy to put up the £2000 (donations might increase that sum and/or reduce my share). The project would need a good website and would need to have the same deadline as the MSFT competition (July 1st). Ideally the effort should tie in with the Creative Commons group UK and possibly Software Freedom Day.
£2000 is not that much, we can match that
OK, I've opened my big mouth now. Anyone else?
Amazing! This is almost exactly the opposite of Software Freedom Day!
... is a turn based fantasy game that runs on Win, Mac and Linux. It's very playable and it's Free! See a description and screenshots at TheOpenCD site. Everything will work well with the headmouse, no problem.
Please re-read my post. We are using K-meleon for this exact purpose. With a few minor tweaks to the ini files we can get it to run directly from the CD (no re-compile or anything). If you don't believe me, just download a copy of TheOpenCD or Ubuntu Live and run it. It works. Today.
K-meleon can run off a CD. That's why it's used to power both TheOpenCD 2.0 and Ubuntu Live :)
Zip is not nearly as powerful as bz2 or 7zip.
Cool! That was news to me, thanks.
Oh, that's bad news. No matter how much you test, there is always a bug :)
The good news is that people don't have to download new copies, just edit \disctree\en\home.html
No, the standard version is only English, but the new HTML-based system makes modification (and therefore translation) very easy. Several translations are nearly complete, so look for localized versions soon. Stop by the forum and wiki for details (when the /.ing dies down). Also look for a much better translation infrastructure for the next release, planned for April.
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.
It's really not meant to be downloded by the average Windows user, but by you, the power user. You are meant to burn copies for your friends. I could have made a self-extracting 7-zip archive which would have been even smaller, but that would have been useless for Linux users to download and burn. If it was made for windows users to download directly it would have been a download portal instead of an ISO image.
The reason it's zipped at all is mainly due to OpenOffice not compressing their Win installer anymore. It's now a full 150 MB (60MB compressed). The original ISO was ~620MB, the bzip file is ~435MB.
most likly quite a bit less then the OpenCD. ...)
Yes, only 7 apps. But it uses the same CD browser as TheOpenCD and was in fact made by the same people. (look for more such stuff in the future
There will never be more than 5-6 games at any one time because that would skew the profile too much. We could of course do a games-only disc one day.
Here. /.ing the main site wasn't enough)
(as if
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.
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.
http://hirisemultimedia.com/TOCD2.iso.bz2.torrent http://www.theopencd.net/torrent/TOCD2.iso.bz2.tor rent
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).
One problem with generating electricity (or running a car) with fossil fuels is that it puts net energy into the global atmosphere. (theremal differences cause air-flows, ie. wind) This is one of the few ways of taking that energy out again, so it can only be a good thing. Solar energy, use of waste-heat from industry, etc. have similar net benefits.
When you use that energy to light your house or play music, most of it ends up as heat again anyway, feeding the system, but at least this way we are not generating net heat while creating the electricity in the first place. To put it differently: it's electricity production with a minimal entropy increase.
It's still Xfree86, but will switch to X.org at the next release in April.
Thanks. Phil Harper, Frederick Noronha, Matt Oquist and Jules Siedenburg were also key organisers of SFD and a large number of local team leaders and participants did an excellent job too!
- Henrik
From Boston, Goa and Oxford here. (These are from the main SFD site, where traffic is getting heavy)
Frederick Noronha in Goa writes:
On August 28, 2004 -- the last Saturday in the month -- some 200 students gathered to mark Software Freedom Day at the Rayeshwar Institute of Technology, in Goa.
This three-years young engineering college is seated atop a hilltop at the seemingly remote village of Shiroda, about 40 kilometres from Goa's state-capital Panaji (also called Panjim). Goa has 1.4 million inhabitants, and is a former Portuguese colony along the Indian west coast.
...
Among the speakers was former Goa education minister Subhash Shirodkar, who said: "The idea of freedom needs to be strong in this country of Mahatma Gandhi. I would never tolerate the clutches of bondage -- whether it is economic or educational,"