OpenDisc

This article is about the open source software distribution. For the Enhanced Music CD software, see Opendisc.

OpenDisc
Final release
12.09 / 1 September 2012 (2012-09-01)[1]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows
Websitetheopendisc.com

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 to proprietary, shareware or freeware software for Microsoft Windows", and "to educate users of Linux as an operating system for home, business and educational use".[2]

The project was created in September 2007 by former OpenCD project lead Chris Gray, who cited numerous difficulties[3] which he believed were negatively affecting the progress of the Canonical-sponsored project. As of 27 September 2007, the OpenCD project is no longer under active development (the former OpenCD project was replaced by OpenDisc).[4] The last updates to the OpenDisc project seem to have been in September 2012.

  1. ^ "OpenDisc 12.09 Released!". Theopendisc.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  2. ^ "About the OpenDisc project". Archived from the original on 19 January 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  3. ^ Mutiny aboard the good ship OpenCD, 27 September 2007.
  4. ^ OpenCD homepage, 27 September 2007.