I see, on your SFD wiki page, that you have a table with a column titled "Proprietary alternative", this doesn't seem entirely helpful, comparing things like bluefish and gimp to dreamweaver and photoshop(which you appear to have used in the design of your website, GIMP no good?) may be a little misleading, and suggesting that the "proprietary alternative" to FreeCiv, a Civilization clone, is age of empires is rather amusing. You appear to be be hoovering up every possible free app, including complicated and potentially dangerous utilities(a windows password cracker, really?), rather than being selective and providing only the best quality tools that the open source world has to offer, try to make sure that the apps you distribute are at the very least well tested, user friendly and genuinely open source. I'm curious about Alice and GCOMPRIS, i believe the latter is crippleware on windows, has this changed or will you be building your own distribution for the platform to get around the limitations? Alice looks interesting but just how free is it, i see EA and their Sims IP are involved, is the content open too or just the engine source? Your project appears to be over a year old, the sourceforge project was started on 2010-08-03, that doesn't sound like a couple of days back. Maybe you should consider creating a swiss army knife system utility boot disc distribution and splitting some of your apps into that, rather than including them with a Windows Free software distro. Phil. On 31 August 2011 07:14, Manmohan Brahma <manmohan.brahma@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ivan,
Couple of days back I have initiated such a disk Swatantra.
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/Swatantra http://swatantra.sourceforge.net/
Do have a look at its contents and if possible do add some thing on Qumble. Have a Happy Happy Software Freedom Day.
~ Mohan
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ivan Shmakov <ivan@gray.siamics.net> wrote:
> Alexey Eromenko <al4321@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all ! I have started new Open-Source distro for Windows, based on > TheOpenCD, copying it's look and feel. Original TheOpenCD and it's > fork, theopendisc, are both inactive. It is time for something new. > The new project, named Qumble, already has BETA1 and forum ready.
> link: http://qumble.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2
> Could you help me test it and advertise it (help spread the word) ?
I've just forwarded the announcement to planning-ru@. (Please also consider replying there.)
I guess we may consider distributing the images, as well as the physical media, at the event at Altai State Univeristy.
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