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MozOO.org 502

MozOO.org is a set of productivity tools for Windows. The key idea
behind MozOO.org is focus. The limited offering provides high value for
a select but very large target group, mainly home and small business
users who “just want to get on with work”. The result is a tiny bundle
(93MB, fits on a MiniCD!) with an easy installer that handles all the
interdependencies and some configuration trickery.
See MozOO.org for more details.

MozOO.org 502 EN is now available, containing:

  • Firefox 1.0.1 (browser)
  • Thunderbird 1.0 (mail and news)
  • Nvu 0.81 (web page authoring/publishing)
  • OpenOffice.org 1.1.4
  • Language tools (dictionaries) for Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org
  • Java runtime environment
  • Flash player 7

It doesn’t include MySQL yet, as there
were some problems automating the configuration inside OpenOffice.org
from the MozOO.org installer. It’s fairly easy to install MySQL 4.1
server, Connector/J (JDBC driver) and then use MySQL from
OpenOffice.org. The installer issue should be sorted out with the next
edition of MozOO.org, to make it absolutely zero-effort for non-geeks.

Ahyes, the whole point is of course that MozOO.org is for non-geeks. If
you’re a geek, don’t complain that the CD does not include Putty…
you’re not the target audience! 😉
But your mum might be, or that little business around the corner. So download and burn some copies to hand out!

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