[CoLoCo] (Fwd) Proposal: Removal of the WinFOSS collection

[Neal McBurnett]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:08:42AM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 10:50 -0700, Chomafin wrote:
> > Thanks for that, 
> > Windows-get looks cool.  How well does it work? Have you had any
> > problems as in not fully installing?
> > I'm guessing here, But does it basically download then start up the
> > normal installer? 
> 
> Yea, basically.  I have set up several Windows users on this, and have
> started to train them to check the repo before trying to search
> elsewhere for a download and installer.  By doing so, they are already
> being trained on how to handle Synaptic later.  Nice, sneaky but it is
> for their own best interest ;-)

Interesting.  Hmm - would it make sense to just provide windows-get on
the ubuntu CD?  Small, sort of similar to apt-get, etc.

Probably too much room for confusion and diluted focus, but I'm
curious how similar they really are.

-Neal