This may be of interest to a number of different people on this list:

1) If you are an experienced XMLer and/or linux user, this disk has the latest version of TEI XML and a number of excellent open source programmes--Sebastian is also responsible for following the open source "market" for Open Source Watch and so has his finger on the pulse, so to speak.

2)If you have never tried Linux before, this disk is an interesting way to try: you load it in your CD drive, reboot your computer, and your computer runs as a Linux computer from the CD-ROM--i.e. without changing anything on your hard drive. It uses Ubuntu which is among the most popular version of Linux and is also extremely good and user friendly. And if you end up liking what you see, you can use the same disk to install Ubuntu to your computer's hard drive--while keeping your Mac or Windows Operating system as well if you wish (i.e. when you start up you are asked what you'd prefer to use). If you've ever installed or reinstalled Windows on a computer, then you will be pleased to know that installing Ubuntu is nothing like that horror: it has a very friendly and easy to use graphic user interface that guides the installation. But if you just run it from the CD-ROM, you won't even have to worry about that.

-----Original Message----- From: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list on behalf of Sebastian Rahtz Sent: Sat 26/05/2007 11:39 AM To: TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu Subject: TEI Live CD

http://tei.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teideb/tei-Ubuntu.iso is an image of a TEI customization of the Ubuntu Live CD (Feisty series) for Intel PC. Grab a copy, make a CD from it, reboot your PC from the CD, and you should find yourself in a nice Linux system with the latest and greatest TEI-everything installed. It includes a state of the art eXist XML database system running with various TEI documents preloaded.

I make these CDs mainly for teaching purposes, but it can also be used as an install medium to set up a new computer with a running Ubuntu system.

As I have said before, if you have some nice software which should/can be be on here, let me know. There are three conditions: * it can't need _too_ much space * it must have an open source licence according to OSI definitions, and data files must be completely free (no "nocommercial" clauses) * it must be set up as a Debian package or something close (no "its got its own copy of Tomcat and Java with it")