Subject: Re: open source CD
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 08:46:49 AKDT
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 08:24, Justin Dieters wrote:
>
> Mike's OpenOffice CD he made got me to thinking, what if we made an
> "AKLUG Open Source CD" with versions of Windows, Linux, and MacOS
> open-source programs, like OpenOffice, Mozilla, and others. I like the
> jEdit text editor which runs under Windows & Linux, and maybe Mac
> (jedit.org).
>
> This would be different than a Linux distrobution CD in that it would
> introduce people to good open source software, that would be able to run
> on their current OS-of-choice.
>
> What else could go on a CD like this?
>
> Justin
Abiword is available for win32 & Linux, not sure about other platforms.
Gnumeric has a win32 version but it may be unmaintained, not sure.
This is a good idea, if folks get used to using an app, most won't care
what platform it runs on.
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