“TheOpenCD team is pleased to announce the release of TheOpenCD 3.1. Core applications including OpenOffice, Firefox and Gaim have been upgraded to major new versions. The popular game Battle for Wesnoth has reached 1.0 and a range familiar programs appear in minor version updates. The Live CD component is now based on Ubuntu 5.10. Blender has returned in version 2.37a and the MoinMoin Desktop Edition has been added.”
I love the OpenCD, what it stands for, and it’s goals.
However, I have one question: What is the MoinMoin Desktop. I went to the opencd website and couldn’t find any information about it.
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/DesktopEdition
It’s a desktop wiki, I’m little confused however what good it’s for. Personal note taking in your web browser perhaps?
Yea I don’t know either. I don’t see how that’d really help anyone who wasn’t a wiki lover who could actually figure out the quirks of using wiki’s.
Besides that, there are hundreds of applications for keeping personal notes; I don’t think publishing software is in any way good for it.
But hey, experimentation is good!
I’m glad to see the OpenCD project continuing, it’s a much needed project. Next time I’m at something where we hand out livecd’s I’ll have to hand out these as well. The first step to migration is migrating to the applications you’ll be using!
Why are they including Release Candidates instead of stable versions on this CD? Seems a little backwards to me.
Oh well, everything else on the CD is great choices. Personally glad to see GIMP and Blender.
I agree. I realize that TheOpenCD devs cannot halt releases for new versions of every app but I imagine that Firefox is arguably the most popular program included (with the possible exception of OpenOffice). I doubt that I will be the only one distributing many copies of TheOpenCD to friends and family over the upcomming holidays and it’s a little disappointing that some CD recipients will see the “Caution: Beta! Beta! Beta!” page when they first run Firefox.
I will most likely create a new image of TheOpenCD with Firefox 1.5 after it has been released but I image that most will not go though this trouble.
I hope they start featuring more OS like Linux and OS X.
Maybe that would spark more Open Source Projects for the Mac Platform.
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I use this CD for all my clients, its like a marketing dream, and customers love it.
Browser: Links (2.1pre15; Linux 2.4.31-6tr i686; 126×45)
At least the new FF updates very easily using the new update system.
At least the new FF updates very easily using the new update system.
… as long as you run it as root.
Also, OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 will be out very soon.
Where can I get the serial number for OpenCD?
and the cracks for Firefox, Openoffice and Thunderbird.
thanks.
You’ve got to be joking…
I HOPE!
what about sun’s JRE, does TheOpenCD include this non free software or does it ship with a crippled office suite? either way it seems to go against the projects previous goals.