LoLiWin
Encyclopedia
Like OpenDisc
for English-speaking users, LoLiWin aims to introduce French-speaking
users of Microsoft Windows
to the benefits of free and open source software
(FOSS). It is a DVD image that can freely be downloaded and copied.
OpenDisc
The OpenDisc project offers a selection of high quality open source software on a disc for Microsoft Windows users. The aims of the project are "to provide a free alternative to costly software, with equal or often better quality equivalents to proprietary, shareware or freeware software for...
for English-speaking users, LoLiWin aims to introduce French-speaking
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
users of Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
to the benefits of free and open source software
Free and open source software
Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...
(FOSS). It is a DVD image that can freely be downloaded and copied.
See also
- OpenDiscOpenDiscThe OpenDisc project offers a selection of high quality open source software on a disc for Microsoft Windows users. The aims of the project are "to provide a free alternative to costly software, with equal or often better quality equivalents to proprietary, shareware or freeware software for...
- GNUWin IIGNUWin IIGNUWin II was a large collection of free software for Microsoft Windows created by the Linux User Group of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...
- WinLibreWinLibreWinLibre was a package of free and open source software for Microsoft Windows, in French and English. WinLibre is no longer maintained, as its latest version is 0.3.1 from December 18, 2004...
- Open Source Software CDOpen Source Software CDThe Open Source Software CD was a collection of about 150 open-source programs for Microsoft Windows. It contained programs for software development, fun and games, Internet, multimedia, productivity, security, text editing, and utilities. It was last updated in December 2005, and is no longer...