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| Thread ID: 38020 | 2003-09-24 22:08:00 | PCW CD - people's poll | Biggles (121) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 177687 | 2003-09-25 00:21:00 | Why not make a cookie ]:) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 177688 | 2003-09-25 00:26:00 | Lose the Splash Screen. | Gordon. (2217) | ||
| 177689 | 2003-09-25 00:27:00 | I believe the annoying plastic sleaves have done their dash - I think they're going back to the (slightly) better quality jobs next time round. Can't swear to that just now. While we're at it, feel free to make some suggetsions for what you'd like to see on the CD. Here's a few cavets though: 1] Size: We obviously cannot fill the CD with a 400MB single-product file and leave little room for other stuff. For example, all the regulars like latest versions of browsers etc take up a fair bit by themselves. 2] We try to put on a good amount of programs that are mentioned in articles in the issue (vendor/author permission allowing, and file size too). 3] We do try to include a game demo most times round as it's a bit of fun and these things are huge iof you're downloading from the Net. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 177690 | 2003-09-25 00:32:00 | you could have patches for games on the cd häzz |
hazza (2704) | ||
| 177691 | 2003-09-25 00:38:00 | Begone flash screen lest you bother us more;) | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 177692 | 2003-09-25 00:42:00 | Suggestions... Bruce, Im sure you've seen this one coming from me: How about a huge thing sometime soon on Open-Source stuff... You've done OpenOffice and I think that was accepted with arms wide open, but how about doing the latest: Mozilla MozillaFirebird MozillaThunderbird for Linux and Doze!! With all due respect, obviously you know I'm not the only person here who's not microsoft-associated, and things have immensely improved over the last 4-5 months, while doze users are still the major majority, things like the Mozilla series are excellent (IMHO) because they're compatible with Win32 and Linux (Not to mention Solaris, FreeBSD and a few others, but I dont think we need to go there ;-)). Am I the only one who'd be interested in that, or are there others out there too? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 177693 | 2003-09-25 01:00:00 | I agree,it just gets in the way of getting to the real bits! ;\ |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 177694 | 2003-09-25 01:01:00 | Latest release candidate of OpenOffice will be on November (may even be release, not "candidate" if latest RC gets the nod by compilation time). I hear you about open source and Linux. We put Linux Mozilla on the last CD (I think) but again, it is very easy to fill up a CD with full-release open source apps. Game patches: No, we won't do these for several reasons. Firstly, which to choose? There is a huge number of them and you could fill up several DVDs each month. Secondly, since these change often it is better to stick with the developers/publishers web site for these. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 177695 | 2003-09-25 01:04:00 | Never liked the splash screen and liked the music even less. I would prefer to see the space used for good freeware utilities. As for the case... you could wrap it in old fish and chip papers for all I care coz I always give it a special colour-coded case :-) |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 177696 | 2003-09-25 01:09:00 | i didn't really like the open office on the cd myself, simply due to the last one being a Release Canditate not the final ver. browsers- IE with all major updates, mozilla/firebird and opera. email progs- eudora, pegasus, the bat, foxmail and antispam tools eg mail washer. media- a few media players and comman codecs. also apps that can run on mulitplatforms eg opera for win and linux. makes the transition from winblows to linux a whole lot nicer. security section- blaster patch etc, firewalls and antivirus updates, avg,nortons etc. virus removal tools. and how about an MS UPDATES CD ! ! |
tweak'e (174) | ||
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