[NTLUG:Discuss] Merry Christmas... Stuff their stockin with these!

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Sat Dec 18 22:38:49 CST 2004


Many people are used to sharing the gift of Linux with their
friends and relatives during the holidays.  Some of the
favorite places for "create your own" CDs:

http://linuxiso.org

If live CDs are your thing to pass out (popular because it's
easy to give out a single CD!):

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

...There are links there to everything from CD's that turn your
computer into a HTPC, to full blow desktop experiences....

BUT...

Does Grandma fear the penguin?  Does Dad own stock in
Microsoft?  Give the gift of free software that runs on
that "other" OS!

http://theopencd.sunsite.dk/

And... thanks to Keven Brannen for showing me this one... while not
for everyone's stocking, certainly for the those in a mixed
*ix and Windoze environment (just say NO to Hummingbird)... here's
a CD that autoruns in your Windows environment and gives you a
free X server!

http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/

Great stuff!





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