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The
FLOSS-CD Project
The FLOSS-CD Project aims to be an introduction to Open Source for
those that have not had the opportunity before. May people that are new
to Open Source feel overwhelmed by the number of choices that are
available because they have been denied the opportunity of chose for so
long. It is with this in mind that a person new to Open Source dose not
need to be overwhelmed by dozens of programs that do the same job in a
different way, but merely to show them a select few that do the job
well
and inform them of their ability to research the others when they are
ready.
If you would like to contribute to the FLOSS-CD effort there are
several ways to do this.
- Subscribe to the email list
servers
- Download the ISO file, create
CD's of it and give them to other people
- Send us your comments
- Order ISO and source code
CD's from us
- Remaster your own CD
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Subscribe
Subscribe to the developers
email list server to help with the creation of the CD images. Send a
plain text email to majordomo@floss.SiliconTao.com with the body of the
message as "subscribe developers"
Subscribe to the support
email list server to ask questions and help answers other peoples
questions. Send a plain text email to
majordomo@floss.SiliconTao.com with the body of the message as
"subscribe support"
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Download
BitTorrent downloads click here
Open Source needs your help to pass it on. So please copy and share
this software with everyone you can.
Download from a mirror:
The FLOSS-CD is in need of mirror servers. If you can donate the space
and bandwidth to host our ISO please email us at floss@SiliconTao.com.
The download is free but do to high bandwidth requirements all
downloads from our main server require a login name and password. To
obtain a login name and password please visit our LUG web site at
http://llug.linux.ab.ca. After you register you will find a login name
and password on the LUG site main page.
Download the ISO files here.
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Comments
It is very important that we here from you about what you think so
please send us you comments or ideas.
Please send your email to comments@floss.SiliconTao.com.
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Ordering CD's
Not everyone has access to high speed Internet but it is still
important that you get a copy of this CD and the other CD's that go with it. The
list of programs on the CD's is constantly changing so it is not possible
to list them here what is on the disks or how many disks there are.
Send us a money order for $5 Canadian (for postage) and we will send you the latest
copies of the following.
- FLOSS-CD
- Knoppix
- The
OpenCD
- Source code for many of the programs on the above CD's
Send money order to
The FLOSS-CD care of
Lethbridge Linux User Group
#103 - 3305 18th Avenue North
Lethbridge, AB
Canada, T1H 5S1
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Remastering your own CD's
Remastering a FLOSS CD or your own version of a FLOSS CD is very easy.
To get started here are the few things you need
- A bootable Knoppix or FLOSS CD
- A Pentium class computer with at least 200 M Hz CPU
and 256 MB RAM
- A high-speed Internet connection
- Blank harddrive with a minimum 7 GB of space
- Floppy disk
- A LAN connection with a writable NFS server
Download a Knoppix CD from http://www.Knoppix.org.
Repartition your blank harddrive with three partitions
- Swap ( 1000 MB)
- Source (3000 MB)
- Master (3000 MB)
Do not have any other
harddrives in this computer. The remaster process with completely erase
any data in this computer.
Boot this computer with your Knoppix CD.
Open a sell program.
Get the FLOSS-CD remaster programs by running these commands at the
command prompt.
su
cd
wget
http://floss.SiliconTao.com/working/FlossRemaster.bsh -O
FlossRemaster.bsh
chmod 755
FlossRemaster.bsh
./FlossRemaster.bsh
The program will ask you some questions and then begin creating a new
ISO image file.
Configuration files are stored on the floppy to save you from having to
answer some of the questions more then once.
To create you own custom CD change the contents of the OverWriteMaster
and OverWriteSource directories on your NFS server.
If you create a cool CD and you want share it with the world please
send us and email and let us know. floss@SiliconTao.com
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