[Blackpool] last 2 saturdays coverage

[Tony Hughes]

Hi All

Yes Mike's right on that, Ubuntu is my current OS of choice for my main 
PC although I use Watt OS (an Ubuntu re-spin for both energy and system 
efficiency) for my ACER Net book and I also like the spin off Linux Mint 
which if you use the standard ISO gives you access to all the non free 
codecs for MP3, DVD and other media playback such as Flash out of the 
box. Saves on the hassle of loading the Medibuntu repository and 
installing it all yourself.

However I loaded the latest Mandriva (Gnome) into Virtual box this week 
and I'm quite impressed with the look and feel of it. I may try Kbuntu 
in Virtual box at some time as I've not played with KDE much as yet.

I just keep learning and having the club and Mike's help it gives me the 
confidence to try new things.

Hope to see some of you on Saturday

Regards

Tony



MJ Hewitt wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> Quick update on what was covered at the last 2 meetings.
> last Saturday we looked at repartitioning hard  disks using the
> Mandriva partitioning tool and took a quick look a shredding/wiping
> data using DBAN.
> The week before, Tony showed 2 distros booting from USB, (latests
> Karmic Ubuntu, and latest Mint) Tony is a big Ubuntu fan! (isn't that
> right Tony?) I showed Moblin and Xpud booting from USB these are both
> Kiosk style distros, and Xpud is of particular interest to me because
> it boots in 15 seconds on an Acer aspire one netbook. The emphasis on
> USB stick booting was at Colins request who unfortunately could not
> make it at the last minute.
>
>