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

Kevin Fries kfries at cctus.com
Tue Dec 11 14:36:11 GMT 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:54 -0700, Andrew wrote:
> >Is there a Windows version of Synaptic for browsing a list of FOSS
> for
> >Windows, selecting what you want, and installing it just like on
> Linux?
> 
> I think that's what Kevin was talking about. 
> 
> http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It sounds neat. I'll have to try it out at school.

Windows-get is more like apt-get, its command line.  I know there was
talk of a graphical front end, for it at one time, but I have never seen
one.  It would make sense that they will move that way quite soon, if it
has not already been done.

-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.



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