[Gllug] OSS for use on M$?

Chris Hutchison chris.hutchison at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Jan 19 11:24:15 UTC 2006


On 19 Jan 2006, at 11:02, Chris Bell wrote:

> On Thu 19 Jan, Richard Cohen wrote:
>>
>> On 19/01/06, Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>    There used to be a distribution called The Open CD, of OS 
>>> software ported
>>> to run on M$ which could be used to soften attitudes. It now appears 
>>> to be
>>> another Ubuntu installation CD. Is there any other distribution I 
>>> should
>>> look at? A friend is using a Packard Bell computer kit supplied with 
>>> a
>>> password-protected BIOS which is set to boot only from the HDD, and 
>>> the
>>> password is not currently available.
>>
>> I don't know which Open CD you're looking at, but the one at
>> http://www.theopencd.org still seems very much to be that CD you are
>> talking about - last updated at the start of this week to add
>> Thunderbird 1.5.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>
> Many thanks, I will download it.

You could also try:

AktiviX:FreeSofware4Windows
https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/AktiviX:FreeSofware4Windows

cheers

Chris

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