Perhaps a Advance Option, that shows links to alternatives, open source info, OSes: Linux/BSD/..., GNU, Sourceforge/freshmeat, etc.
If this is already on the disc, sorry I am where I can not check(work).
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Posted 3 months ago #
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My two cents (again)
No -- links are useful only to those who have broadband access.
Nor is the point really open source alternatives to Windows. THAT'S EASY. No problem at all for me to obtain any Linux distribution already burned to disks but rather useless for development purposes except for my own use or amusement (my "end users" aren't going to be running a 'nix).
I think the problem is being misunderstood, especially with regard to "advanced" applications. The problem ISN'T that somebody like myself can't go out there and one by one assemble a set of useful development tools for the Windows environment by ordering up a large number of them and then trying one by one to see which might actually be useful (ready for the real world). There is an assumption that apparently every potential developer would choose to live only where broadband is available, that I, for example, would sell the farm and move to the city because how could I possibly satnd to live where I couldn't just download whatever I wanted.
In other words, I think that an "advanced" disk would in fact have people who wanted to try it out. ONE download that could be ordered up giving some sampling of the available open source langauge sensitive editors, compilers, etc. in addition to some of the other more technical/specialized software that has already been mentioned because dropped or never included. It's the "somebody has taken a look at this and it's probably ready for the real world" that is the big deal and there are a whole bunch of these available as a single download.
Posted 3 months ago #
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