The OpenCD project is a discontinued open-source project aimed to introduce users of

Microsoft Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

to the benefits of

free and open-source software Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free ...

(FOSS). It is a CD image that can freely be downloaded and copied. The OpenCD team screened programs for stability, quality, and ease of installation, and only distributed programs available under an OSI-approved

open-source license Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development. Intellectual property (IP) laws restrict the modification and sharing of creative ...

, which allows users to freely use and distribute the disc as they wish. It was sponsored by Canonical Ltd., for a period. The project was started in April 2002 in response to an article on linux.com by astrophysics student Henrik Nilsen Omma. In September 2007, project lead Chris Gray left the project to pursue his own open-source disc, called

OpenDisc The OpenDisc project offered a selection of high quality open source software on a disc for Microsoft Windows users. The aims of the project were "to provide a free alternative to costly software, with equal or often better quality equivalents t ...

, citing numerous difficulties which he believed were negatively affecting the progress of the OpenCD project. As of September 27, 2007, the OpenCD project is no longer under active development.OpenCD homepage
September 27, 2007.

Version 07.04

Version 07.04 (as the version suggests, released in April 2007) includes the then-latest versions of the following: * Design:

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GIMP Gimp or GIMP may refer to: Clothing * Bondage suit, also called a gimp suit, a type of suit used in BDSM * Bondage mask, also called a gimp mask, often worn in conjunction with a gimp suit Embroidery and crafts * Gimp (thread), an ornamental tr ...

Inkscape Inkscape is a vector graphics editor. It is used for both artistic and technical illustrations such as cartoons, clip art, logos, typography, diagrams, and flowcharts. It uses vector graphics to allow for sharp printouts and renderings at ...

, NVU,

Scribus Scribus () is free and open-source desktop publishing (DTP) software available for most desktop operating systems. It is designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. Scribus can a ...

, Tux Paint. * Games: Battle for Wesnoth, Enigma, Neverball, Sokoban YASC * Internet: Azureus,

FileZilla FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS), whil ...

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curr ...

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, HTTrack,

RSSOwl RSSOwl is a discontinued news aggregator for RSS (file format), RSS and Atom (standard), Atom news feeds. It is written in Java (programming language), Java and built on the Eclipse (software)#Rich Client Platform, Eclipse Rich Client Platform wh ...

SeaMonkey SeaMonkey is a free and open-source Internet suite. It is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite, based on the same source code, which itself grew out of Netscape Communicator and formed the base of Netscape 6 and Netscape ...

, Thunderbird,

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WinSCP WinSCP (''Windows Secure Copy'') is a file manager, SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol (SCP) client for Microsoft Windows. The WinSCP project has released its source code ...

* Multimedia: Audacity,

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, Really Slick Screensavers, Stellarium * Productivity:

MoinMoin MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine. Its name is a play on the North German greeting '' Moin'', repeated as in WikiWiki. The MoinMoin code is licensed under the GNU General Public Licens ...

, Notepad2,

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, PDFCreator * Utilities:

7-Zip 7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. 7-Zip has its own Archive file, archive forma ...

, Abakt,

ClamWin ClamWin Free Antivirus was a free and open-source antivirus software, antivirus tool for Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine. The software has not been updated since 2021. Features * Scanning scheduler ( ...

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, HealthMonitor, Workrave Opencd-v40-3-inkscape

References

External links

*
Development blog

The OpenCD Italian Edition
(Italian localized version)
The OpenCD Hungarian Edition
( Hungarian localized version)
The OpenCD Dutch Edition

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