[ILUG] the killer free software app for joe public

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

> >> [0] last time I checked, gimp for win32 crashed a lot.  Blender is
> >> another candidate, but it's not very mainstream.
> >>
> > I use gimp on WinXP here at work quite a bit and have never run into any
> > problems with it, no more than any other Windows app that is.  At the

> I'll second that. I have it on Windows 2000 here at work, and had few
> problems. I also have xemacs installed, tcl python and perl, Ethereal,
> RealVNC, cygwin, nmap-win, FabForce DBDesigner, syn editor. That's what I
> can find at the minute. Can provide URLs if required.

hmmm, ~7 months ago on a Windows 2000 box gimp crashed constantly for
me.  I've also had an off-list reply saying that a 2-weeks-ago gimp
installation is always crashing.  I'll take another look when then time
comes...

I'm only going to include maybe 4-6 apps on the CD.  It's not going to
be a "toolbox", it'll just be a few classy apps to showcase Free
Software, so I only want to include apps that mop the floor with their
MS rivals.  

I also want to burn some Morphix or Knoppix+freedom CD's for people that
want more.  (AFAIK the small unFree parts of Morphix have been factored
out into a seperate module which can be excluded.  More info about the
Knoppix+freedom project is at: http://live-gnu-linux.infodrom.org/ )

A more tech inclusive CD with things like perl, php, python, MySQL,
Apache, emacs, blender, etc. would be beyond my resources, but I'll
include a link to the OpenCD and gnuwin sites, and some others.

(thanks to everyone for the on- and off-list pointers.)
-- 
Ciarán O'Riordan
http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/
Irish Free Software Organisation: http://ifso.info/