On Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:40, Mike Hansen wrote: > ...........VMWare Player(it's free) ........... No. It isn't.
Please don't confuse shareware/crippleware/etc. with true Free/open-source (GPL, etc) software. > ........... a very quick way to get > users up and running w/o all the install hastle would be to > create a VMWare image of a distro+geda and then make it > available on the internet. Perhaps we can make it available > via some torrent so no one has to source a 1G download. But > this would be a quick and painless way to get users going and > would be a nice way to draw Windows users into the fold. Any > thoughts on this one, anyone think it's worth putting any > effort into it? Someone needs to maintain it, other than the developers. (See my other mail on this topic.) Even so, there are distribution restrictions that may make it illegal to distribute freely. I think (and have said so before) that a Knoppix (hot CD) variant with gEDA tools is the answer. You boot from the CD and run from it without installing anything. Performance is slow, but you do get to try it with no risk, even on borrowed computers that you can't install on. It is easy to make a modified version of Knoppix with our software on it. There's one already available: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html Here's the package list: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/quantian_0.7.9.2.quantian.packages.txt
