On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:13 PM, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for finding the kits from http://www.publicsoftwarefoundation.org. > That sounds like a good starting point. It will work better if we can make > the librarians have at least a vague idea of what we are providing. I'm > trying to think of a good/easy/efficient way to do get the information > across. > > Another related idea I came up with was a disk we with a collection for free > software like Open Office / Firefox / an IRC client and so for Windows. The > barrier for a typical user to install that stuff would be a lot lower than > for installing a Linux distro.
I think this already exists. I have given a couple of them away in their previous incarnations. See web site for the latest release, as well as some others. <http://theopendisc.com/> carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
