[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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> Subject: [vox] What would you include?
> 
> 
> 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.