Kitchen Sink 1.3 beta

After about 6 months offline, a new release is available.  Feedback here or on the forum welcome!

License-friendly release due August 9th

Much to my chagrin, I'm going to release Kitchen Sink without Firefox and a few other programs that I'm not yet allowed to distribute. I don't know if Mozilla will ever give me a license so I might as well continue without them. John Haller didn't sound optimistic on this issue in his otherwise very helpful follow-up e-mail. That release will obviously happen a little over a week from this posting.

Although I'm disappointed to be doing this without having cleared things up, its is important to continue development and improvement independent of legal questions. People not having the software because I have an emotional attachment to having all my programs how I want them is absurd.

That said, I'm not sad to be throwing out Winamp, which was on its way out anyhow. Foobar2000 is proving to be the replacement I've been looking for all these years.

On a side note, I'm deeply disappointed that Firefox is not as freely distributable as other GPL programs, which you are free to modify and distribute so long as you include the source code. Still, I understand Mozilla has a huge organization to protect and the good here obviously outweighs the bad by a substantial margin. Still, I find myself hearing RMS's words echo in my head about the four freedoms.

Kitchen Sink 1.1.1 - Maintenance Release

Release Notes:

Fixed a problem with the self-extracting installer and a bug with the Pstart menu.  Also updated CPU-Z and USBDeview.

Download:

• Web
• Torrent

MD5: C2A41574D1AFDFC58EAF4BAE4425A911

Kitchen Sink 1.1 Release

Major changes:

• User interface cleanup (better icons, more intelligent folders)
• Fixed a number of problems in the 1.0 version with missing, out-of-date, and broken files.  
• Updated, added, and removed ~40 programs.
• Dramatic CAFE update: A configuration to allow opening over 700 file types, enable only the "power" editors (OpenOffice and GIMP), or open any compressed file (including EXE / MSI files).
• Shortcuts/Hotkeys added

Got a LOT of help from users Guiness and Vishnu on this release.  Big thanks to them.

Download (445 megs, 1.22 gigs uncompressed):

• Web
• Torrent

Feedback is welcome!

Release: 1.0

Version 1.0 is online -- you may download the torrent here.

Please let me know your thoughts, comments, problems, and criticisms.

Torrent now available

By popular request, a torrent is now available for the latest version (thanks Wes). Should offer at minimum between 30 and 50 k/sec download speeds.

If you already have a copy, please seed!

Latest version is out!

Here's the latest-and-greatest: kitchensink-0.9.8.7. Instructions are here. Torrent should be available sometime today or tomorrow.

Notes:
This is a maintenance release over the previous version. The reason its so much smaller is that OpenOffice has cut down on the space their most recent release takes up and I replaced GNUCash, which takes up 100 megs, with something much smaller. I had no idea until I compressed the archive overnight.

Please give me feedback and enjoy!

Release delay: waiting for torrent

Help! If you run ANYTHING except 32-bit WinXP (64bit XP, Vista, 2K, WINE, ReactOS, etc.), please join the mailing list. I need people to test stuff.

So I've found someone to seed the torrent file so that will happen this weekend. Looking forward to getting the maintenance release posted. Its contents:

1. Brought up to speed with current stuff on portablefreeware.com
2. Fixed (I think) startkitchensink.exe path problem (thanks to m^(2)) as well as extras.exe so that Hotkeyz starts up minimized.
   
3. Fixed the autorun.inf file
4. Some minor internal issues, a few more language files deleted.
5. Minor cafe.ini file fixes
6. Figured out new Hotkeyz version out, even before PFW so I included that.
   
7. Filezilla extras files cleanup
8. Reinstalled Abiword, which was acting oddly, as well as PeerGuardian
9. Pulled out PortBlocker -- my initial tests on it were very positive but I just don't think anyone will use it. Its also not very portable and very old.
   

Mostly this time has been spent testing out the program on a fresh copy of Windows. This will be the process before release from now on due to the lengthy problems with OpenOffice caused by my OS. Also need to find someone with Win2K and Vista to test them.

Release: 0.9.8.6

Its been six months and here's the latest-and-greatest:

kitchensink-0.9.8.6.7z

I should have solved the problem of people needing to download the DLLs (1) and (2) but users may still want them as they run a bit faster when they're on the local system.

I will make a torrent available if people ask for it. For right now I just want to get some initial feedback.