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Jay Daniels wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 00:08 -0400, Fred Roller wrote:
>   
>> Encarta - I don't know of a linux equivalent
>>     
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> wikipedia maybe?
>   
There's also this list on encyclopedias, on wikipedia  :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_encyclopedias_by_language#English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_encyclopedias
>
> If I remember correctly, Microsoft killed Encarta.
>   

Grolier killed their CD-ROM Encyclopedia in 2003, which made me sad.
Most of these were based on Macromedia Shockwave/Director, the base
development platform, making it easy for the developers to make Mac/PC
application for interactive CD-ROMs.

I guess (from what I can tell) we do not have an equivalent to allow
people to easily make these types of interactive programs on Linux. It
would be nice to have interactive CD-ROMs for Linux.

Today all the attention is on the Internet, but I feel that offline
media is being left behind, since we assume everyone should be connected
by now. Then again we can always make the counterpoint that wikipedia
can be used offline if needed (see
http://lifehacker.com/291518/build-your-own-offline-wikipedia ). I feel
bad that we don't have an encyclopedia CD/DVD for Linux, but perhaps
they have outlived their usefulness.

*sigh*

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