Re: [OS:N:] Windows OSS (was Re: Of possible interest: LEG-UP)

[Kevin Cole <kjcole@gri.gallaudet.edu>]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Robert Citek wrote:

> At 05:00 PM 10/10/2002 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote:
> >As well as some links to other sites, you'll find the LEG-UP CD Project,
> >which is sort of a baby brother to the Open CD Project. (I hadn't heard
> >of them when I started this.)  It's a CD full of Open Source that runs
> >native under Windows, and it's meant to be a "leg up" to Linux.  ;-)
> 
> Absolutely, beautiful!  Hope you don't mind if I distribute to my Windows
> friends. 

Thanks. 

> BTW, you may want to stick a copyright notice on it, if only a
> one-liner like "(c) 2002 Kevin Cole."  You deserve the credit for
> assembling the pieces.  A GPL or some OpenSource license may be a good
> idea, as well as pointers of where to download the source.  I believe this
> is a requirement of the GPL.  Then again, IANAL.

Dang.  I thought I had that in there.  ;-)  However, the project started
life as something I was going to do with Yorktown High School, as sort
of a "local" project.  As such, like everything else, it's a work in
progress, that gets added to when and if I have time.  One of the goals 
though, is to keep it on one CD.  I figure, anyone who wants more than 
one CD worth of Open Source should be told "It's time to bring your 
other leg up, and start using Linux." ;-) Right now, the image is pretty 
darned full, weighing in at 622 MB.

I do GPL/FDL my tutorials, almost automtatically. Some of you may want 
to look at those -- especially the Linux Tips, which live at 
http://gri.gallaudet.edu/Tutorials/

> On a technical level, did you assemble your collection by hand, or did you
> automate the assembly?  If you automated it, what did you use?

I put it together by hand.  I need to double-check some apps on it.  For 
example, TECHNICALLY some of them may not be 100% open source.  (Python 
vs. ActiveState Python comes to mind, and both are in the ISO image.)
 
> >Enjoy.  But don't beat on the machine too hard.
> 
> Sorry.  I just had to get the CD.  It's now on our intranet which is,
> of course, being served by a RH7.1 Linux box (P166, 64 MB RAM, 80 GB
> HDD).

Kool!  I was more concerned about people editing the crap out of the 
Wiki.  But lots of ISO downloads would probably cripple it as well.

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