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Toast a copy of TheOpenCD for the entire neighborhood!
I had the pleasure of messing around with TheOpenCD project's new disk. Their latest release version 1.4 is jam full of the very best Open Source and free to distribute software for Windows. I had written about Open Source software for Windows but this has most of the applications on a single CD image.
I am going to nominate Space Invaders OpenGL to the next edition of the CD. I see that they included the Mozilla Suite but Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird were not included on the CD. It is probably because they are still under a 1.0 release but I will ask them to put it on the next version.
What is really slick is the installer browser that tells you what the various programs do and why you should install them. This is a very slick idea and it raises the distributions and installation of Open Source software to the simplicity of commercial over the counter software for windows.
The programs for TheOpenCD version 1.4 are:
Office & Design
OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, PDFCreator, GIMP
Internet & Communication
Mozilla, Miranda IM, FileZilla, TightVNC, WinHTTrack, PuTTY
Multimedia & Games
Audacity, CDex, Tux Paint, Crack Attack!, Sokoban YASC,
Neverball, Celestia, Really Slick Screensavers
Utilities & Other
7-Zip, SciTE, WinPT, NetTime
You just download a zipped ISO file and burn it to a CD then give a copy to all your friends and family. If it were closer to Christmas time I would burn a copy and put it in the stockings of all my kin. This is a very groovy idea and it really helps Open Source evangelism.
Jake at May 7, 2004 
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hey, thanks for the mention, i'm glad you like the CD :)
the reasons for exclusion with regards to FF and TB at the moment are their immaturity, and FF's tendancy to crash under high loads, we can't include them just yet.
Posted by: PhilH at May 9, 2004 7:50 PM
