Larry, You are misinterpreting my use of the word "free". I meant free as in "free speech", not free as in "free beer". I guess I should have said "open source" instead. Ah, well. ;)
Definitions: free software: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html open source: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php John Larry Braud wrote: > John, Opera is free. I have it and Mozilla on my desktop. > Larry > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:26 AM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OT: Open Source Software for the college-bound > freshman using Win98 > > > >>I know it may be too late, but InfoZip is free software >>(http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/) and GSView >>(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm) is a replacement for >>Acrobat that is also free software. And as much as I like Opera, it is >>not free software. :( Too bad Phoenix >>(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html) is >>not more mature. I've been having bad luck with Mozilla lately. >> >>John Hebert >> >>Doug Riddle wrote: >> >>>My daughter is leaving for college, major unknown as of yet. I am >>>relaoding her PC, a P-200, 128 MB RAM, 6.5 Gig HDD. >>> >>>She wants Windows as the OS. College is hard enough without fighting >>>the OS, so who cares. I have ten or fifteen legal copies of Win98 >>>and Win95 around. I am more interested in the software than the OS. >>> >>>I loaded the AVG virus scanner and updated it. >>>I installed winzip, Acrobat, Gimp, Open Office, and Opera. >>> >>>What am I missing? >>> >>>If your kid was leaving for college, what Open Source app would you >>>NOT want to forget. I have until about 11:00 AM Monday, 01/20/2003 >>>to do the installs. I am on broadband, so download time is trivial. >>> >>>I appreciate any suggestions. Especially about Open Source firewalls >>>for Windows. She will be one a campus dial-up, so I doubt it will be >>>a big deal, but if anyone knows of one... >>> >>> >>> >>>===== >>>Warmest Regards, >>> >>>Doug Riddle >>>http://www.dougriddle.com >>>http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ >>>http://www.libranet.com >>>-- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are >> > the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- > >>> >>>__________________________________________________ >>>Do you Yahoo!? >>>Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >>>http://mailplus.yahoo.com >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>General mailing list >>>[email protected] >>>http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >>-- >>John Hebert: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>System Engineer: I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com 225.922.4535 >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- John Hebert: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Engineer: I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com 225.922.4535
