[vox] What would you include?
Trevor Lango
vox@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:48:00 -0700
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> From: Richard Crawford [mailto:rscrawford@mossroot.com]
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> I'm giving a talk next week to a bunch of library students
> about open source software. As part of that talk, I thought
> I'd create some CD's with some Windows-friendly OSS software
> like Mozilla, etc. Something like GNU-Win, but without so
> many programs that won't get used -- I don't want to
> intimidate anyone.
>
> If you were burning such a CD, what would you include? My
> immediate thought is to include...
>
> 1. Mozilla
> 2. Thunderbird
> 3. OpenOffice.org
>
> Anything else?
>
> And how easy would it be to create such a CD? Is it just as
> simple as including the installation files on the CD?
TheOpenCD sounds like a good candidate...? (http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/)
It is like GnuWinII but with far less packages.