----- Original Message -----
From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] win32 for 9.1?


> Oden Eriksson wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Here's my proposal. Why not ship distributable win32 applications like
> > "WinSCP", cygwin, etc?
> >
>
> Cygwin is huge, but I reckon a "Windows migration CD" wouldn't be bad.
> Heck, I think they could have put mozilla on the MNF Cs, which would
> have reduced problems with some versions of IE not working.

Exactly.

> But, I think then we would need most of what is on the GNU-Win CD.

What's a "GNU-Win CD" ?

> I would want:
> -mingw+msys (cygwin without cygwin, ie native gcc on windows)
> -DevC++
> -pwdump (samba util for dumping Windows domain sam in smbpasswd format)
> -winmclient (client for mserver)
> -mozilla
> -OpenOffice.org
> -sanetwain
> -audacity
> -gimp
> -gkrellm
> -putty
> -wincvs
> -tortoise cvs
> -wxwindows
> -CUPS win32 postscript driver

Wow! I've been MS free for more than 2 years now..., thanks for the tip!
Also there's these:

- nessus win client
- some free vpn client (?)
- netadmin (mysql client http://www.it-netservice.de)
- securecrt (?)
- total commander + plugins

> In short we would fill one CD very quickly.

Yes, we would, but we would only ship good stuff that we know works and
recommend.

> Maybe Mandrakesoft should consider shipping something like GnuWin2 or
> whatever it's called in Pro-Suite?

That was what I meant, it could be on cd8 or on the dvd and only for the
commercial mandrake release. This would be great! I guess there are many
more applications like these for interactions between win32 and linux. It's
possible, mandrake is allready a cd distributor, so why not?




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