Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-03-09 Thread Carl Karsten
would prefer to see people in Ubuntu. Don't sell yourself short; Ubuntu is what we are selling when we are making a Live CD. Ok, as promised: http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/temp/Mar09/a/LiveDapperBoot.avi.torrent 16meg, worth the view. not worth even consedering for final product, but

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-03-09 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Carl Karsten wrote: Ok, as promised: http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/temp/Mar09/a/LiveDapperBoot.avi.torrent 16meg, worth the view. not worth even consedering for final product, but worth chattering about. Carl, that sounds great! Unfortunately I get a bad torrent. I you could put the

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Bjälevik
tis 2006-02-21 klockan 23:39 +0800 skrev Jerome Gotangco: Firefox 4.7mb No brainer. Gaim 6.6mb Consistency tells us to have it :-). Thunderbird 6.1mb Evolution doesn't run on Win yet? (Consistency again!) Abiword 5.0mb Do we really need to ship something-Word? Windows still has Wordpad, no?

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-03-08 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 08 mars 2006 à 20:35 +0100, Christian Bjälevik a écrit : tis 2006-02-21 klockan 23:39 +0800 skrev Jerome Gotangco: Thunderbird 6.1mb Evolution doesn't run on Win yet? (Consistency again!) It should, but I don't believe there's an installer available yet. Abiword 5.0mb Do we

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Bjälevik
ons 2006-03-08 klockan 21:54 +0100 skrev Vincent Untz: Le mercredi 08 mars 2006 à 20:35 +0100, Christian Bjälevik a écrit : Abiword 5.0mb Do we really need to ship something-Word? Windows still has Wordpad, no? I think we can all agree on that if we should ship something it would be

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Santiago Roza
imho the win32 foss is a bad idea per se: we shouldn't take 100 mb for something that's not needed for ubuntu, especially when you're under heavy size constraints. given that, if the choice still is to blundle win32 software, the non-ooo2 option sounds like the most reasonable. no one will ever

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Santiago Roza wrote: imho the win32 foss is a bad idea per se: we shouldn't take 100 mb for something that's not needed for ubuntu, especially when you're under heavy size constraints. Well, remember that the CD isn't just for you and I who already know and use Ubuntu. It's for a wider

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Santiago Roza
On 2/21/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, remember that the CD isn't just for you and I who already know and use Ubuntu. It's for a wider audience ... i know that, but the problem is that we're overlapping objectives here. the ubuntu livecd cannot have the same objetives

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Jerome Gotangco wrote: This selection is pretty good actually, although I would wonder the use of MMDE for casual computer users. Yes, I agree that it's probably not mainstream enough. It's just me who is a Moin-zealot :) That was more a hypothetical list to show some file sizes. Wesnoth

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Manu Cornet
Hi ! I think 35MB is a bit too much for something which has a fairly small audience in the end (besides, TheOpenCD needs some selling points too ;) ). Considering the great pieces of software we could make available the Ubuntu part in those 35M, I tend to agree. What about opening a small

Re: Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Armand CORBEAUX
To change its practices requires an effort. To propose softwares for Windows on CD is a means of reassuring people. When you listen people around you, you realize that they don't know what is free softwares, even less than they can have a free office suite, and even less than any software does