For anyone interested in using open source software on a Windows platfrom. I would like to recommend a couple of sites:-
http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
and
http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
Some projects such Dotnetnuke are windows only and very proud of it. I can highly recommend Dotnetnuke as a CMS/Website/Intranet.
Using open source software on Windows can be a good insight into the world of OSS for those that are new to the idea.
PS there is even a http://www.opensourcemac.org/ for those strange looking PCs ;)
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[quote=monkeyx]For anyone interested in using open source software on a Windows platfrom.[/quote]
Right: I've been having (or attempting to have, anyway) this conversation over at EduGeek. The conversation over there has rambled over in to Linux-is-better-than-Windows territory, but I was hoping to figure out the best way to get the OpenEducationDisc's software installed on a Windows-based school network. So far, the options would seem to be:
- Build an MSI installer file from the CVS/GIT/etc source of each project, if if doesn't already exist - most open source projects seem to use the NullSoft installer, which produces .exe files that are silent-sinatll capable but aren't MSIs.
- Use a system similar to WPKG that uses the native installer of each project to do a silent install/update on client machines from a piece of client-based software that gets updates from some central server.
My preference would be with the WPKG option - it looks like the least work, and it might simply be a case of bundling WPKG itself and a settings file of some kind on the OpenEducationDisc.
As others in the EduGeek thread have pointed out there's things like RM's network system to cause confusion - does that take standard MSI files, or something different?