[H-GEN] Software Freedom Day - Sept 10th

Sandra Mansell fakungabubu at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 01:48:57 EDT 2005


Anthony Towns wrote:

>
> So, Ubuntu Linux, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD maybe. Do we want to actually 
> have CDs of all those to hand out, or just talk about them and say 
> "come to HUMBUG where we can burn you a copy"?

I think that it's all very well to say 'don't forget *bsd!' but could a 
an average windows/mac user really install and use it straight away? 
Heck, I tried installing one of them a few years ago and found the 
debian installer much more friendly ;-) [don't flame me, I love debian.]

>> While we're at it, why not give out OpenOffice.org for Windows as well?
>
>
> That makes sense -- maybe Thunderbird and Firefox too? An "install 
> Linux" set, and a "free software for Windows" set would probably be 
> complementary. Is "free software for OS X" useful or redundant?

Copies of "The Open CD" perhaps?

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