Re: Making Free Software Collection CD
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 04:05:18AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I will be presenting a comparison between proprietary software licenses and
> free software licenses. I wanted to make up a collection of free software to
> put on CD and duplicate to pass out to the members of the class to give them
> something to try out. It is a safe assumption that every single person in the
> class is a Windows user and would not be comfortable with a new OS right off
> the
> bat (that rules out Knoppix). These are the programs that I have so far
> (all for Windows):
>
> OpenOffice.org v1.1Beta (becuase of the nifty extra features over 1.0.3)
> Mozilla v1.3
> Audacity
> GIMP
>
> That covers about 90MB, so what should I put on the other 610MB?
Most of these programs are under reasonably open licenses. Some are
native win32-only, some are Windows ports of UNIX software. However, I
can't speak for the quality of all of them because I haven't personally
used all of them on Windows.
If you think some of them might be interested in multimedia:
VirtualDub - http://virtualdub.org/
AviSynth 2.0 - http://avisynth.org/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
POV-Ray - http://povray.org/
ImageMagick - http://imagemagick.org/ (the win32 binary installer
includes the PerlMagick module for ActiveState Perl)
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
If some of them deal with networking, web design, etc:
PuTTY - I don't have the URL handy, do a web search for putty ssh
Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/
PHP - http://www.php.net/
ActiveState Perl - http://www.activestate.com/ (you might as well also
give them ActiveState Python and Tcl)
JBoss - http://jboss.org/
Eclipse IDE - http://eclipse.org/
--
Michael Heironimus
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