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Microsuck branded computers
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: pofnlice ---I think if you want to band together and make a microsuck distro, it should be either exclusive or "for fun" type distro that we would just kick around as kind of like an ongoing project.
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Yea - a livecd might be fun. If it's not a livecd then people would expect at least security updates and all - who in their right mind wants to sort all that crap out?
I agree with calum too. There are many good GNU/Linux distros. For Windows users, they'd probably want Ubuntu/KUbuntu, SuSE, Fedora (those 3 for higher end computers), Vector or XUbuntu (those 2 for lower end computers).
What we need is guides, explaining the differences between the alternatives, not just listing them, and giving the simplest instructions on getting started with whatever program, and some tips if we can provide them (e.g. for Firefox, tell them to see Help > For IE users to see the changes from IE). If only we had a CMS...
The Microsuck day (maybe we should call it MS-eradication or something else..) was a cool idea I thought. We could build a CD (Windows only even) with alternatives to MS products, but we should provide a way for users to easily update all the products like Google do with their Windows -utilites (or whatever it's called) download.
Calum:
well, this idea did come up a couple of years ago, and it resulted in a few people from this site, myself included, trying to set up websites, forums etc etc, thought about doing live CDs, made nice friendly logos and all that crap under the umbrella name of the openopen project. peter and panos actually set up websites to try and promote the good software so newbies could cut through the crap, and the idea was we would provide like a sort of easy help environment too, but it hasn't really worked out that way. peter's site here: http://openopen.org/ has apparently ground to a halt many moons ago, and panos' site here: http://support-freesoftware.org/ is currently undergoing immense overhauls now that panos is back in the land of the living again. incidentally, he does need some users (well, regular site visitors), and eventually i think he will be looking to hand off the admin tasks to users who he trusts because he is short of time, which is the main reason for all this not getting it together in the first place.
well, i think i rambled along off topic pretty well there, but what i am saying is, this exact topic about how we should all get together and actually do something like this did come up before, and those were the results.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Calum ---well, this idea did come up a couple of years ago, and it resulted in a few people from this site, myself included, trying to set up websites, forums etc etc, thought about doing live CDs, made nice friendly logos and all that crap under the umbrella name of the openopen project. peter and panos actually set up websites to try and promote the good software so newbies could cut through the crap, and the idea was we would provide like a sort of easy help environment too, but it hasn't really worked out that way. peter's site here: http://openopen.org/ has apparently ground to a halt many moons ago, and panos' site here: http://support-freesoftware.org/ is currently undergoing immense overhauls now that panos is back in the land of the living again. incidentally, he does need some users (well, regular site visitors), and eventually i think he will be looking to hand off the admin tasks to users who he trusts because he is short of time, which is the main reason for all this not getting it together in the first place.
well, i think i rambled along off topic pretty well there, but what i am saying is, this exact topic about how we should all get together and actually do something like this did come up before, and those were the results.
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It's not a brilliant idea to stop allowing users to register when you want new members ;) "This forum is not accepting new registrations." (http://www.support-freesoftware.org/community/register.php)
Also OpenOpen look alive and well ATM.
davidnix71:
Dynebolic Rasta Linux runs well on older stuff. I've used it in VPC on a Mac.
The trick to making a Linux distro that runs straight off the cd is finding a safe haven to host the image, like the Chech Republic or India. If you want to include VLC with commercial dvd playing capabilities, you can't host it most places without getting a takedown letter real fast.
A two cd set would be better. One for the OS and one for apps. You need that much space now.
Calum:
well, sorry sorry sorry.
i was only giving you the information as i know it, however thank you for correcting me.
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