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And you wonder why Linux is not Mainstream Like Windows is?
choasforages:
well, the cdburner that just went toast was a 4x4x16 drive.thats all i know
and it could burn 700meg cd's
[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]
Tonerman:
The Silicon Valley has a great deal of open source.. Cygnus was down here.... I tihnk they were open source.. I don't know.. my dad worked for them for a while.. and he's the one that told me the joys of Linux... and he said it was open... anyhoo... we got a number of open source..things... But.. I still say Finland could easily take over... but.. I like Finland... AN dI stopped making sence...
Dah..
anyhoo. yeah.. we got a good supply of open source in San Jose area...
voidmain:
Sure there is open source there. But open source is everywhere was my point. Silicon valley certainly provides no leadership for open source, that would be defeating the entire concept. And I'm sure you know that Cygwin is now owned by RedHat. Like RedHat, Cygwin is mostly made up of "community" developed software.
voidmain:
Ok, finally got the 650MB version of DemoLinux downloaded and burned. I don't know what the difference is between that and the 700MB version. I thought the difference was the 700MB version included StarOffice 5.2. But it seems the 650MB version also includes it.
At any rate, I booted it up and played around a little and here are my thoughts:
1) It's Debian based (not a plus or minus, just a note)
2) Since it is all run from CD it is obviously much slower than an installed distribution
3) Includes the older KDE 2.x desktop (3.x would be much better in several respects, fonts most noticabely)
4) Includes the older Gnome 1.x (2.x would be better, along with a copy of Evolution)
5) StarOffice 5.2 is not nearly as nice as 6.0
But overall I think it is a pretty good demo. It's packed with a lot of stuff on one CD and it should give a good example to someone who has never used Linux. If it had the following I would say it would be a perfect demo CD:
1) KDE 3
2) Gnome 2 with Evolution
3) OpenOffice.org 1.0
4) Mozilla instead of Netscape
I think they have already creatively used the space on the CD and I don't know if the above upgrades could be squeezed on a CD without sacrificing a bunch of other stuff. I would say it's worth a download and I can see where it would make a good recovery CD. There is also a DemoLinux HOWTO if you want to build your own version of the DemoLinux CD.
Bazoukas:
quote:Originally posted by willysnout:
Res Ipsa Loquitor
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[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]
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