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

2006-03-10 Thread Carl Karsten
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: 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. Thanks, I got that working now. I've put a copy here: h

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

2006-03-09 Thread Carl Karsten
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: 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. Thanks, I got that working now. I've put a copy here: h

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. Thanks, I got that working now. I've put a copy here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~henri

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 file

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 wor

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

2006-03-09 Thread Petr Tomeš
Hello, I agree with you. The main purpose of this LiveCD is show what is Ubuntu about, not for applications for Windows. Most of distributed applications for Windows haven't localizations - how many users of this LiveCD aren't speaking English? About one half? Furthermore, some users don't use Win

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

2006-03-08 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
Christian Bjälevik wrote: > Sure, but it's not Ubuntus default piece of software. Therefore I don't > think we should ship it on the WinFOSS part of the CD either. The space > is better used for other things... Like, for example, Ubuntu! :-) I have thought about this since the thread began and I

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 > woul

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

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,

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 not

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 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 is

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

2006-02-21 Thread Jerome Gotangco
This selection is pretty good actually, although I would wonder the use of MMDE for casual computer users. Wesnoth is pretty good too (included in the OpenCD) but that's around 35MB for the setup file. Firefox 4.7mb Gaim 6.6mb Thunderbird 6.1mb Abiword 5.0mb Gimp 15mb MoinMoin Desktop 3.2mb 7-zip

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 objetiv

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 audien

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 i

Windows FOSS on the Live CD -- the OOo2 question

2006-02-21 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
I'd like to poll people's views on the content of the Windows FOSS on the Live CD. In the past we have adjusted the Win-FOSS to fit the available space quite close to the end of the process, but it might be worth taking a longer view now. How do people use it? Is it something that end user f