Oden Eriksson wrote: >>Cygwin is huge, but I reckon a "Windows migration CD" wouldn't be bad. >>Heck, I think they could have put mozilla on the MNF Cs, which would >>have reduced problems with some versions of IE not working. > > > Exactly. > > >>But, I think then we would need most of what is on the GNU-Win CD. > > > What's a "GNU-Win CD" ?
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ > > >>I would want: >>-mingw+msys (cygwin without cygwin, ie native gcc on windows) >>-DevC++ >>-pwdump (samba util for dumping Windows domain sam in smbpasswd format) >>-winmclient (client for mserver) >>-mozilla >>-OpenOffice.org >>-sanetwain >>-audacity >>-gimp >>-gkrellm >>-putty >>-wincvs >>-tortoise cvs >>-wxwindows >>-CUPS win32 postscript driver > > > Wow! I've been MS free for more than 2 years now..., thanks for the tip! > Also there's these: My consulting almost always involves integrating linux into windows networks .. so I need a lot of these. The list I gave is what I have on my dual-boot win2k/Mandrake 9.0 thinkpad (except I didn't list grass, which I have on windows too). > > - nessus win client > - some free vpn client (?) It is not better to make Mandrake VPN software work out-the-box with the native windows client? > - netadmin (mysql client http://www.it-netservice.de) > - securecrt (?) > - total commander + plugins > A lot more are here: http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/en/index.html I haven't been able to get one of these ISOs yet, so I haven't started suggesting software to them yet ... > >>In short we would fill one CD very quickly. > > > Yes, we would, but we would only ship good stuff that we know works and > recommend. > Take a look at that list. And they haven't even got apache, php, bacula-windows client etc on it yet. > >>Maybe Mandrakesoft should consider shipping something like GnuWin2 or >>whatever it's called in Pro-Suite? > > > That was what I meant, it could be on cd8 or on the dvd and only for the > commercial mandrake release. This would be great! I guess there are many > more applications like these for interactions between win32 and linux. It's > possible, mandrake is allready a cd distributor, so why not? > Maybe we should ask Deno if his new on-the-fly CD-writing service for the Club will sell something like this ... Deno? Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
