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Kitchen Sink Collection offers 1.2 gigabytes of portable Windows apps
It's packed with more than 1.2Gb of software and includes all the core applications you would expect, like Firefox, FileZilla, Thunderbird, Sumatra, and OpenOffice. That's just the tip of the iceberg, however. There are loads more applications covering every kind of chore from listening to/grabbing internet radio (Screamer) to rootkit detection to accessing EXT2/3 partitions.
The contents scanned clean with both Microsoft Security Essentials, except for a false positive on Angry IP Scanner. KSC's 440Mb 7-zip auto-extractor is available for direct download from the developer or as a torrent from Mininova.
Update: as pointed out in the comments, the maintainer has pulled the download. From his site:
So just got a letter from the owner of portableapps.com saying that I'm violating trademark law, the GPL, and several software licenses.
Unfortunately Kitchen Sink will need to be offline until I can get that ironed out. Here's why:
If I can't get this cleared up, I'll shutter the project for good.
- I'm doing this for the love as I'm not getting paid. I've got some revenue sources (adwords and donations), but I have yet to make a dime off either one.
- I'm unemployed and don't make near enough money to hire a lawyer to help me make sure I'm totally in compliance with 200 different licenses.
- I'm a big fan of the GPL and violating the license even implicitly is not something I'm comfortable with.
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Subscribe to commentsEbbe KJul 31st 2009 10:58AM
That didn't last long. See more here:
http://kitchensinksoftware.blogspot.com/2009/07/kitchen-sink-currently-offline.html
Sax25Jul 31st 2009 10:53AM
It seems that John T Haller is being a little biatch about KSC:
http://kitchensinksoftware.blogspot.com/2009/07/kitchen-sink-currently-offline.html
SpamdelJul 31st 2009 1:33PM
There is a torrent of the penultimate version available to those who know the ways of Google. I hope that the licensing stuff gets sorted out soon so we can get the official version
Tim O'BrienAug 1st 2009 5:38AM
The amount of people reading this article, there must be loads of people willing to help. Drop the guy a line and see if we cannot help him. Also John Y Haller, instead of telling him he in breaking the law, help him to fix the problem, that way we can all live together and be happy.
John T. HallerAug 5th 2009 1:40PM
I already am, Tim. Some of it can't be worked around easily (licensing on Firefox et al as our license for the portable version does not extend to third parties). Some of it is minor stuff that can be fixed quickly (ensuring that the license is included and hosting it where required, e.g. GPL/LGPL stuff). Some of it has to be removed (some of the freeware like Winamp). And I've laid all that out for him so he can get things back up properly. I'm hoping to convince him to work with PortableApps.com, too, since many of the major apps in the collection are ours, anyway.
webforkAug 10th 2009 3:05AM
Nice graphic. :)
webforkAug 10th 2009 3:18AM
John's definitely not the problem here -- he's just the messenger. I did Kitchen Sink because all of the other suite tools out there were missing something. I thought that because it was "freeware" that I could share it and nobody would mind but its more complicated than that.
I'm working on a few different angles to see if I can keep Kitchen Sink as packed full of software as possible. Its a slow process but its coming along.
Thanks for posting about it.