Re: Call for Software for LinuxTag 2004 DVD

Bill Eastman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.knoppix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
luka frelih wrote:

>> We are going to produce the LinuxTag 2004 DVD this week, and if anyone
>> has a good recommendation of _freely_redistributable_ software that
>> could be included, please feel free to post a hint. The software should
>> be useful to more than one person, though. ;-)
>>
>> I already included latex, grass-gis, crystalspace, grace, gnome
>> (including games and gnome-office/abiword), and eclipse (untested yet).
>>
>> Deadline is Friday, 21.5.2004. Recommendations should be available as
>> Debian package on the usual mirrors.
>
>
> i propose these packages be included:
>
> texmacs - scientific structured wysiwyg editor
> graphviz - graph layout tools
> blender - 3d graphics app (opengl)
> fontforge (formerly pfaedit) - font editor
> scribus - desktop publishing app
> dia - diagramming & uml
> gucharmap - unicode browser
> filelight - disk usage with a beautiful interface
> qps - good qt process manager
> mgdiff - visual merge/diff
> rpl - commandline search/replace in textfiles
> bzflag - networked first-person tank battle game (opengl)
> mozilla-chatzilla - irc agent component of mozilla
> ffmpeg - audio/video encoder and streaming server
> effectv - great fun with a video input
> terminatorx - music dj & scratch tool
> pgadmin3 - gui postgresql management & db design tool
> postgresql-client - standard command-line postgresql client
>
> they are all in debian, working and add functionality not found in 
> knoppix
>
> thanks for accepting my suggestions for knoppix-autoconfig. looking 
> forward to the
> next release.
> btw, will it be possible to download the dvd image this year?
>
> LF

What about selling the DVD image?  I'd be willing to buy a copy. 

-- 
Bill Eastman
KE5ASU
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