[SLUG] Re: Re:distro info

[bob]

On Saturday 08 September 2007 12:15, David wrote:

> If it's not too late can I suggest you include a business-card sized distro
> as well. I am currently using DSL on my oldest computer (400MHz 128Mb I
> think.). It runs like a charm entirely in ram or from CD and is very easy
> to use. I also like puppylinux for this purpose. On a side note, I wanted a
> silent PC so I unplugged the fans and HD and it's now virtually silent and
> the CPU still runs cool with just the heatsink!

Yes, sounds good to me.  If you can write it up and are willing and able to 
answer questions, it can go with the rest of the distro info material.  We 
should try for a standard format, with the same headings for the paragraphs, 
and roughly the same length.   If you want to argue about the headings we 
have time, as this is being set up to appear by the end of next month.  I 
like DSL, but at our meeting we said we should aim to concentrate on 
installed Linux, rather than live CDs.

If we can find someone to write up Ubuntu in the same way, we have enough for  
a website presentation.

It would be good if you could work this up into a half hour talk for 
beginners.  At the moment the topic list for the beginner's half hours looks 
like this:

		KOffice
		er,.. Computer hardware and Linux

We need to have at least 3-4 topics in place before we start the meetings, and 
they need to be proper presentations, using say, Kpresenter, so they can be 
accessed by anyone who does not get to meetings, - criticism improves style 
and content as they say.  

I can out inverse snob you on machines.  This is being written on a 6 y o 
Panasonic Toughbook. It has 128Mb and runs up to date Slackware 11.0 at 300 
Mhz.  I did have to spend £25 on a new hard drive last year.

Bob