Re: [Opencd-devel] Source

[Henrik N. O. <h....@bt...>]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 14:49, James Arthur wrote:
> 
> Perhaps, but I would. If I was looking to get, say, a
> copy of OpenOffice for Linux, I'd find someone who has
> it on CD because it would take days to download it via
> a modem. The source code effectively makes the CD
> multi-platform. Linux users aren't going to be scared
> by typing './configure && make && make install'. 
> Including the windows binaries _and_ the
> multi-platform source means that you could hand the CD
> over to anyone and it would appeal to both the newbies
> and the experienced on a multitude of platforms.

There are a million places to get free linux software on 
CDs; any linux distro will have that.  The is _NO_ such 
option for Windws at the moment.  This is the need we're 
trying to fill.  Anyoe who is ableto type './configure'
or even able to read a README file is alredy considered
an advanced user in this context.  We need to keeep it 
_very_ simple for the Windows crowd out there :)


> 
> ...Or a second ISO containing the source.
> 
> Or, and I'm not sure if anyone's considered this yet,
> a DVD? There are a lot of people with DVD drives, and
> quite a few with DVD+-R(W)/RAM drives.
> 
Yeah, we've touched on that.  In a year or two, I think :)

- Henrik

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