Open Horizons Project

• Runs on nearly any PC straight off of the CD - does not have to be installed.

The Open Horizons Project distributes and supports a complete operating system and application tool set on a CD. The environment includes the powerful Open Office suite of word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing applications. In addition, graphics tools, media players and a complete suite of software development tools are provided.

Open Horizons technologies bridge the "digital divide" by providing any Nevadan, regardless of income level, access to world class applications. By making the tools of knowledge access, communications, and creation available to all, the playing field is leveled and the best ideas win.

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Knoppix -- CD based Linux and Open Applications

Open Source Nevada is distributing and supporting a Knoppix distribution on CD. The following technologies are available on this CD.

• Knoppix Live Linux (website) -
  KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it.

• KDE Graphical Desktop
  KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.

  • Konqueror Web Browser
    Konqueror uses a very capable HTML rendering engine called khtml. This engine is implemented as a KPart and as such, it can be easily used by other KDE programs.
    
    '''Universal Viewer'''
    Konqueror can also serve as a viewer for a lot of file types. Click on an image and it will display the image in the current view. Click on a text file, it will show its contents. Same for postscript and DVI files, KOffice files, and others.

• OpenOffice
  OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software. You can create dynamic documents, analyze data, design eye-catching presentations, produce dramatic illustrations, and open up your databases. You can publish your work in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and release your graphics in Flash (.swf) format - without needing any additional software. <nop>OpenOffice.org 1.1 is now available for more users than ever, with support for complex text layout (CTL) languages (such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, and Hebrew) and vertical writing languages.
  
  If you're used to using other office suites - such as Microsoft Office - you'll be completely at home with OpenOffice.org 1.1. However, as you become used to OpenOffice.org 1.1, you'll start to appreciate the extras that make your life easier. You can of course continue to use your old Microsoft Office files without any problems - and if you need to exchange files with people still using Microsoft Office, that's no problem either.

• X Multimedia System
  An MPEG-video, MP3, Ogg Vorbis Audio player and xine.

• The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) -
  The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.