7/18/01 (Mammoth Lakes, California)
OpenOSX.com (TM) Starts to Serve

OpenOSX.com (TM), a new business dedicated to serve the budding Mac OS X community has opened its doors for business today by rolling out five exciting products.

These products, now shipping on CD, install and fully configure all necessary libraries, programs and files to have the user up and running the World's most powerful and stable UNIX-based software without typing a single "UNIX" command. "Our products are for Macintosh users who can benefit from the power of UNIX applications without having to learn UNIX. Instead our users may spend their precious time learning what counts - using the world-class software,” says owner Jeshua Lacock. Regular Macintosh "Users" and "System Administrators" alike will find our products offer a huge savings in time and effort.

The Gimp, Grass and Xfree86 products will install and configure the newest available version of Xfree86 4.1.99, (A graphical user interface) combined with the Orobus Window manager's "Agua Theme". Offering an authentic "Aqua" like experience complete with drop shadows (please see our web-site address below for screenshots).

All OpenOSX (TM) products ship with installation support for one machine. The people at OpenOSX (TM) realize that software is constantly updated (especially open source software), so we have created an optional subscription service for our current and future products. Ensuring that our user's systems stay current economically. Owner Jeshua Lacock says "the service is much like having a UNIX system administrator delivered on CD resulting in a huge savings in time, frustration and money."

OpenOSX.com (TM) was created following the success and popularity of our Gimp 1.2.1 and Grass 5.0b11 CD's, originally sold by our sister company, SierraMaps.com.

The OpenOSX (TM) Product Lineup

Gimp 1.2.1 CD
This CD installs and fully configures the "Gnu Image Manipulation Program " (GIMP 1.2.1, the open source Adobe Photoshop alternative). For a rich graphical user interface the CD installs XFree86 4.1.99 and GTK. Extra fonts, patterns and brushes, complete documentation in both HTML and PDF formats are also installed. Start The Gimp by just double clicking on an icon. People who bought our Gimp 1.2.1 CD from SierraMaps.com will receive $10 discount off the purchase of the new CD.

Grass 5.0 pre1 GIS CD
Ten minutes after inserting our Grass CD (GRASS 5.0 pre1, the open source alternative to ArcView), the world's most powerful open source Geographical Information System (GIS) will be running on you Mac without typing a single Unix command! Also installed are XFree86 4.1.99 Tcl/Tk 8.3, PostgreSQL, and unixODBC along with documentation, sample data and tutorials. People who bought our Grass 5.0 b11 CD from SierraMaps.com will receive $10 discount off the purchase of the new CD.

OpenDB 1.0 CD
Without typing a single "UNIX" command, our CD installs and fully configures MySQL 3.23.39, unixODBC 2.0.7, BerkeleyDB and InnoDB for Mac OS X. For MySQL administration, our CD will optionally install and configure Apache Web Server, PHP 4.0.6 and phpMyAdmin 2.2.0rc1. The CD also installs complete documentation in both HTML and PDF formats and source.

OpenWeb 1.0 CD
Our OpenWeb CD installs and completely configures Apache Web Server with PHP 4.0.6 for serving dynamically generated web pages and SSL for secure Internet transactions. It also installs phpShop 0.9.3, a shopping cart solution configured with MySQL to store unlimited data with lightning fast access. To administrate your MySQL backend, the CD optionally installs phpMyAdmin for a web based graphical front-end. As with all of our CD's, there is no need to type any "UNIX" commands in the terminal application.

XFree86 4.1.99 CD
By simply double-clicking the package icon, this CD installs XFree86 4.1.99 bundled with the Orobus window manager configured with the "Agua" theme, resulting in a "Aqua" like experience, with X-Window applications of your choice.
For more information please visit http://OpenOSX.com (TM)

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