CoolPlayer\nFireFox\n[[OpenOffice.org]]\nSciTe\nThunderBird\nVideoLAN
!Experience Freedom, wherever you go\nThe FramaKey is a package of ready-to-use FreeSoftware on a USB key which makes the life of the nomad users much easier.\n\nIts goal is to provide you with the best of windows Free Software, already installed and set to be run directly from your FramaKey. In doing so, there is no need for an installation, you can not only experience the software safely, but you do so without leaving any personal information on the host computer.\n\n!Running the FramaKey:\nThe main advantage is that you can be experiencing the freedom of, not only moving anywhere with your documents and files, but also with your own, known and custom-made software environment.\nA “Home sweet Home” feeling anywhere, without leaving your prints and datas on the computer hosting your FramaKey.\n\n!!Examples:\nThe FramaKey will let you:\n\n* take along with you your web browser, set to your needs (skins, extensions, favourites, etc), for a safer browsing when on the move (FireFox).\n* manage your email accounts from the host computer without any need to modify its settings (Thunderbird).\n* work on your text documents, spreadsheets, slideshows from the best fully-integrated office application suite of the Free Software world (OpenOffice.org).\n* play about any format of multimedia file, either audio or video, from the host computer without any player installation process (VideoLAN).\n* listen to your favourite tunes, either from .mp3 or .ogg files, from an easy, efficient and fast player (CoolPlayer).\n* save time by editing quickly and efficiently your files, no matter the size, using a powerful editor, with enhanced capabilities (SciTe). \n\n!Stable, secure and stealth applications\nAll the software provided with your FramaKey have been tested and reported stable, safe and stealth.\nTherefore:\n* most of your portable software are known to be more stable than costly proprietary applications,\n* applications run from your FramaKey will not corrupt the ongoing processes of the host computer,\n* the web browser and mail client will protect your privacy and the host computer, leaving only very little after you, protecting you from spam (Thunderbird) or viruses (FireFox is not subject to malicious ActiveX scripts). \n\n!A multi-tool flash-drive\nThe FramaKey is like the “Swiss army knife” of the nomad user. It allows you to move anywhere with a toolbox full of your own, known and tailored set of software. This will ensure you to be straight away efficient on any unknown computer. \n\n!A Free flash-drive\nBut the best asset of your FramaKey is that it is completely “Free”!\nIndeed, all its content including the software are Free Software, meaning you can experience the:\n* freedom to run the software no matter the use,\n* freedom to modify and customize the software to your needs,\n* freedom to distribute copies,\n* freedom to publish your software once modified for the mutual benefit of the whole Free Software community. \n\nTo find out more about your freedom (and possible obligations, like naming the author) related to the use of Free Software, we advise you to carefully read the various specific licenses. \n\n!Realization\nThe FramaKey is a team effort from volunteers of the http://www.framasoft.net/ french website\n\n!Website\nFin out more on [[framakey.org]].\n
CoolPlayer is an especially lightweight and fast audio player. It will play your .mp3 as well as your .ogg files (ogg vorbis, a free and open multimedia format far more efficient than .mp3). It can even create playlists. A must-have !\n\nProfitez-en pour écouter [[Les jeux de plage|lch/music_ehma.lch]], de ''Ehma'', et [[Healing Luna|lch/music_vavrek.lch]], de ''Vavrek'', deux titres pour vous initier à la FreeCulture en [[Musique]].\n\n*Launch [[CoolPlayer|lch/coolplayer.lch]].
Firefox is a light-weight web browser based on Mozilla technology. It enables you to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently. Its other assets are : tabbed browsing, popup blocking, and the possibility to add new functionalities by using extensions.\n\nMore than ever built with your security in mind from the start, Firefox keeps your computer safe from malicious spyware by not loading harmful ActiveX controls. A comprehensive set of privacy tools keeps your online activity your own business.\n\nYou'll find, on Firefox Homepage and on the web, some extensions that will give you the ability to extend Firefox functionnalities.\n\n*Launch [[FireFox|lch/firefox.lch]].
VideoLAN Client (VLC) is an extremely complete multimedia player, able to play a wide variety of audio and video formats (MPEG 1/2/4, divX, Xvid, avi, ogg, MPEG Audio, mp3, vorbis, théora, … ).\n\nBesides files, it can also play DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, network streams (webRadio and webTV, UDP multicast streams, RTP/RTSP streams). \n\n*Launch [[VideoLAN|lch/vlc.lch]].
CrystalPack is a package of icons available under a LGPL licence. It has been developed for KDE, one of the main Linux graphic environment.\n
KMeleon is a web browser using Gecko rendering engine, like FireFox. It is provided under a GPL licence.\n\nHighly user-customable, it was first modified for TheOpenCD. The Framakey is based on this adaptation.\n
The Open Clip Art Library is a picture database using .png and .svg format, freely accessible to fulfil your needs.\nIt is available under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication licence.\n
TiddlyTagWiki is Johny Leroy’s version of TiddlyWiki, published under a BSD licence.\n
TiddlyWiki is the baby of Jeffrey Ruston, available under a BSD licence.\n
TheOpenCD is a package of high quality Free Software available on CD. Do not hesitate to download it from the official website: TheOpenCD.org, or visit Framasoft link for the French version.\n
!FramaKey\nThe (text) content of the FramaKey interface is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (CC by-sa).\n\n!CoolPlayer\nCoolPlayer is under GPL licence.\n\n!FireFox\nFireFox is under MPL licence, as is the portable version available on the Framakey.\n\n![[OpenOffice.org]]\n[[OpenOffice.org]] is under LGPL licence, as is the portable version available on the Framakey.\n\n!SciTe\nSciTe is under Python licence (CNRI License Python).\n\n!ThunderBird\nThunderBird is under MPL license, as is the portable version available on the Framakey.\n\n!VideoLAN\nVideoLAN is under GPL license.\n
Get a more complete Frequently Asked Questions list on [[framakey.org|lch/framakey.lch]].
You must run the //start.exe// program in the root directory by clicking twice on it’s icon, this will open the FramaKey interface. This is the home and start page for the application.\nFrom the home and start page\n\n* Programs can be started by clicking on their icons,\n* Program details can be obtained by clicking on their names,\n* Additional Information is obtained by clicking on the //Information// button located at the lower right cormer.\n* The interface can be closed by clicking on the //Close// button at the lower right corner without affecting any of the programs currently running. \n\nOn the Information Page\n* Access Articles on programs in the FramaKey,\n* Access Miscellaneous Articles,\n* The Information Page can be controlled in various modes; closing all open articles, incremental search extension on available articles, sequential article display and/or activating animations during article display,\n* The //Home// Button, lower right, returns to the Home Page,\n* The //Close// Button, lower right, allows closure of the interface without affecting any running programs.
!!Flash Drive.\n\n * For adequate memory requirements a Flash Drive USB 2.0 with at least 256 MB.\n * Trials with USB 1.1 Flash Drives reveal correct but slower functioning. \n\n!!Host Computer\n\n * All applications work with MS Windows XP.\n * Limitations have been encountered with MS Windows 98. \n
FramaKey is available as a self extracting file, FramaKey.exe\n\n# Download the FramaKey.exe file to your computer.\n# Insert your USB Flash Drive, with at least 200 MB of free space, in a USB port.\n# Click twice on the exe file.\n# A window opens requesting decompression location.\n# Indicate the path for the Flash Drive, this will vary, depending on the particular computer connections.\n# Wait until all the files have been copied, this may take several minutes, be patient … \n\nWhen complete, your FramaKey is ready for use ! \n
The organisation of FramaKey is based on 2 folders:\n# //framakey// which contains all the elements of the interface used to start the applications and read the information,\n# //programs// which contains the open source programs included, \n\nOnly these 2 folders may be affected by updates to the FramaKey. Any updates to the FramaKey take this structure into account and any modification will affect subsequent updates to the FramaKey.\n\nIt is recommended that your data be stored in the my data folder, but you can organise them differently if you wish. \n
Framasoft is a collaborative web site on free software and its state of mind.\n\nIts main purpose is to make the public find out about free software. It offers a large ordered and commented directory service of several hundreds of free software, regularly updated,, as well as tutorials, rooms for conversation and debate and deeper articles.\n\nDiscover [[Framasoft website|lch/framasite.lch]] and join us on [[Framasoft Forums|lch/framaforum.lch]]. \n\nDécouvrez le [[site de Framasoft|lch/framasite.lch]] et venez nous rejoindre sur les [[forums de Framasoft|lch/framaforum.lch]].\n
!The Free Software Definition\nMost of the proprietary software licenses aim at preventing you from trading or modifying them. Conversely, Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:\n\n* The freedom for anyone to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).\n* The freedom to learn how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a prerequisite.\n* The freedom to redistribute copies of the software and it’s source code so you can help your neighbour (freedom 2).\n* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the general public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a prerequisite. \n\nA program is free software if users have all these freedoms. Thus, you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without modifications, either free of charge or charging a fee for distribution, to anyone anywhere. Being free to do these things means (among other things) that you do not have to ask or pay for permission.\n\n!But what is the purpose of having access to the source code?\nOn one hand, that allows anyone to analyse the operation of the program, which guarantees you that its code deals respectfully with your personal information.\nIn addition, one of the problems of the proprietary software (of which the source code is unavailable) is that they tend to use “closed” formats to store your data. As the editor ceases supporting the old versions of the software, you will have to update your version, with often some significant cost, in order to preserve the access to your data. This process does not occur with the free software, because when the code that processes the files is available, one can easily write an import filter to the newer version of the software, which ensures you with the constant accessibility to your data.\nFinally, opening access to the source code tends to generate broad communities of voluntary developers, often volunteers, who provide the world with free quality software, such as those installed on the FramaKey.
In direct reference to the title of the book by Lawrence Lessig, “Free Culture” is an ambitious phrase for a phenomenon certainly emerging, but which gains in range and credibility day after day.\n\nMusics, photographs, texts, films, philosophy of the free software extends today way beyond the framework of applications software and extends to that of numerical creation in general, thanks to the contributions of artists who propose their works under an “open” license.\n\nA license will be known as “open”, when it authorises at least the diffusion of work. This diffusion will be, so to speak, the smallest common denominator of all the creations that we will present here.\n\nThe difference is large between an artist who proposes a work under a license preventing any modification and/or marketing, with another one, let’s say a free software designer, who authorises them unrestricted, thus often adding the co-operation to publication.\nNevertheless, it remains they all adhere to this free culture which, to the traditional “ all rights reserved”, opposes the much needed “some rights reserved” and in doing so, do not see Internet as a gloomy threat, but as a formidable opportunity.\n\nSeemingly here, only good sense. And yet, as Lawrence Lessig points it out below, the current context seems to oblige us to adopt a resistive attitude.\n\n”It is an ‘out-of-nowhere’ movement which aims at modifying the spirit of the public. And this movement states that the culture and knowledge may be appropriated and that consequently the culture and knowledge must be protected the same way we protect any property.\nOver the last years, this erroneous vision was harmless. With the emergence of new digital technologies, it became essential to fight it. Because these technologies, if they favorize a creative boiling, can be used to control the culture and the knowledge in a way that no free society ever tolerated”\n
The Penguins are a work by L.L. de Mars and are under a Free Art licence.\n
SciTE is a full text editor. Its numerous functionalities will let you edit simple text files, as well as source files using several languages (HTML, CSS, javascript, PHP, C, perl, etc) with syntactic highlighting that you will be able to adjust to each case depending on your habits.\n\n*Launch [[SciTe|lch/scite.lch]].
* The use of a USB 2.0 Flash Drive connected to a USB 2.0 port is recommended. If one or other is USB 1.1 the speed of decompression will be notably affected ( Allow ± 10 minutes in the case of the FramaKey 256 )\n* The quantity of free RAM memory will also affect the speed of FramaKey applications. \n* The starting of an application from a USB Flash Drive is notably slower than from a hard disk and is also affected by the USB Version and quantity of free RAM memory available.\n* The first time you use OpenOffice.org or ThunderBird it is necessary to set the parameters for each application (identification of email account, for example). However most of the software functions without prior configuration.\n* If FireFox or ThunderBird are being executed at the same time on your computer, they will conflict with the same applications activated from FramaKey ; in order to guarantee your confidentiality it is recommended that these applications be closed on the host computer.\n* A USB Flash Drive degrades slowly with use during reading and writing ; accordingly it is recommended that the ThunderBird anti-spam filter be not activated as this requires additional reading/writing reducing the speed of the application.
[[OpenOffice.org]] is a full-featured productivity suite including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and web page editor. Noticeable features in this version are native PDF and Flash export at the click of a button. Moreover, its tightly-integrated modules help simplify workflow. Documents are stored in a compressed, open-standard XML format to ensure future availability of your data and to reduce file size. You can read and write documents in a wide range of formats including Microsoft Office.\n\n''Note'': on this portable version, some functionalities will not work unless the required JAVA components are installed on the host computer.\n\n*Launch [[OpenOffice.org|lch/openoffice.lch]]\n*Launch an [[OpenOffice.org]] module :\n**[[Writer|lch/openoffice_writer.lch]]\n**[[Calc|lch/openoffice_calc.lch]] \n**[[Presentation|lch/openoffice_impress.lch]]\n**[[Base|lch/openoffice_base.lch]] \n**[[Draw|lch/openoffice_draw.lch]]\n**[[Math|lch/openoffice_math.lch]]
Thunderbird is an advanced mature email client with features such as intelligent spam filtering, built-in spell checking, numerous themes and customizable layout. Thunderbird supports IMAP/POP for incoming mail, HTML e-mail composing, quick search, address book, advanced message filtering, address autocompletion, import tools, and the ability to manage multiple e-mail and newsgroup accounts.\n\nFollow the wizard for the initial setup of your accounts. \n\n*Launch [[Thunderbird|lch/thunderbird.lch]].
The FramaKey is a work by Framasoft volunteers.\n\nThe Framakey GUI derivates from various Free Projects :\n* the display software is originally from the KMeleon browser, modified after the release of TheOpenCD 2.0.\n* the home page was inspired by TheOpenCD 2.0,\n* the information pages are managed using an adaptation of TiddlyTagWiki, a modified version of TiddlyWiki,\n* the Framasoft Penguin logo is a work of L.L. de Mars,\n* The start-up screen is the work of Pyg, based on some work from Hoaxyde, which uses the L.L. de Mars Penguin (got it ? winking smiley )\n* Icons come from CrystalPack and OpenClipArtLibrary. \n\nThe Framakey project and its team owe a lot to TheOpenCD project, without which the Framakey would probably not have been possible…\n\nThe Framakey concept is merely possible thanks to John T.Haller’s work and his development of the portable versions of FireFox, [[OpenOffice.org]] and ThunderBird.
On your FramaKey, you can also listen to Free music, composed by talented artists.\n* [[Les jeux de plage|lch/music_ehma.lch]], by ''Ehma'', under a Free Art license,\n* [[Healing Luna|lch/music_vavrek.lch]] by''Vavrek'', by Vavrek, under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence (CC by).\n\nBoth talented artists, they take part in the FreeCulture by allowing free distribution of their respective works. Listen to them and make this great movement for the cultural freedom known to everyone.
