[Savannah-register-public] [task #5609] Submission of Free MultiOS

[Marti van Lin]

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                 Summary: Submission of Free MultiOS
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: ml2mst
            Submitted on: Sunday 05/28/2006 at 02:49
         Should Start On: Sunday 05/28/2006 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Wednesday 06/07/2006 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
The project account will remain inactive until a site admin approve or
discard the registration.


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Full Name:
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  Free MultiOS

System Group Name:
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  freemultios

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Other License: 
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  The "GUI" (browsing environmet = website on disk) is GPL 2
All sub packages are GPL 2, exept for MINIX 3.1.2 = BSD

I have gained written permission of all sub project maintainers to
redistribute their work.

Description:
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  Free MultiOS is a compilation CD-ROM, providing multiple free Operating
Systems, the upcomming release provides:

* AROS (Amiga Research Operating System - GPL 2);
* FreeDOS 9 "Methusalem" and OpeGEM 5 (both GPL 2);
* MINIX 3.1.2 (BSD);
* Puppy GNU/Linux (GPL 2);
* ReactOS 0.29 (Windows XP binary and driver compitable OS - GPL 2).

Source code is not available on the CD, but it includes a CD browsing
environment (a "website on disk") providing file descriptions and links to
each package's website. So users have instant access to the source code (as
stated by the GNU General Public License 2) and updates.

The ISO9660 image requires max. 700 MB and will be replaced if a update is
released. The release cycle is pretty much Debian GNU/Linux alike. It will be
released if it's ready to.

The philosophy behind Free MultiOS is pretty straight foreward: Look, here is
a nice CD-ROM filled of Free experimental Operating Systems. Hum, a nice geeky
toy, for the average Joe's and Jill's: the worst nightmare ever :)

If you want more info on the development progrss, check out my homepage at:

http://members.home.nl/ml2mst

Other Software Required:
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  There are no dependencies.

Other Comments:
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  Well, the reason i request you to host Free MultiOS, is simply the lack of
financial resources. I am simply unable to buy some diskspace. Technically i
could host the iso image on a homebrew server, but again here the lack of
financial resources is the problem (the energy bill).

Free MultiOS was rejected at sourceforge.net, since it is not a community
source project and rejected at ftp.funet.fi since it is not especialy
Finnish. I allso tried hosting the iso image via the Gnutella p2p network,
unfortunately Limewire consumes too many system resources on my top box (a
Pentium II 260 Mhz / 96 MB RAM). If i had the resources to host it my self
beleve me i would not bother you ;)








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