[Colchester] LUG Distro

Wed May 7 16:32:31 BST 2008

LUG Distro? Sounds like a bad idea to me. We can't possibly maintain a
distro along with all of the source packages.

What we could do is produce some personalisation to go on top of
existing distros (e.g. themes, wallpaper, sound packs, GDM and
usplash). Gary has already produced a wallpaper, of course.

Personally I don't think that any of this is necessary though as I'm
quite happy with my current distro set-up.

Jai

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Toby Whaymand
<toby.whaymand at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  Doing a LUG Colchester Distro sounds like a great idea!  I would not
>  have a clue on how to compile all the packages together so I would have
>  to take a back seat  but the idea is very cool.
>
>  Wayland, thanks for another interesting e-mail I first read about
>  the Xerox PARC machines in the book I keep going on about 'Accidental
>  Empires  - it a great read and worth reading even if you know the
>  history, just for the comedy value - the book is very funny to read!
>
>  I can only image what it was like back in 1979 only using highly
>  expensive computer with command line only on a black and white or green
>  and black screen and then to suddenly see the   Xerox PARC computer
>  must of been amazing.  I can't even  guess how it felt.
>
>  I would love to try out the HP touch screen computer from the early 80's
>  with the pen I but that would be really cool in a very retro way...
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Toby
>
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>  > Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:51:04 +0100
>  > From: Toby Whaymand <toby.whaymand at ntlworld.com>
>  > Subject: [Colchester] Wayland
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>  > Thanks for your e-mail it was very interesting.  I can remember the days
>  > when 56K was a lot of memory more so to the home user (I'm 30 now)
>  >
>  > When I was 9 going on 10 back in 1987 I can remember my Dad bringing
>  > home a Apple Mac with the black and white screen.  The computer was so
>  > amazing so advance for the time.  That when my love for computers
>  > started...
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Toby
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > ------------------------------
>  >
>  > Message: 2
>  > Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:26:49 +0100
>  > From: Wayland Sothcott <wayland at sothcott.co.uk>
>  > Subject: Re: [Colchester] Wayland
>  > To: Colchester Linux User Group Mailing List
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>  > Message-ID: <482094D9.2090504 at sothcott.co.uk>
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>  > Toby Whaymand wrote:
>  > > Thanks for your e-mail it was very interesting.  I can remember the days
>  > > when 56K was a lot of memory more so to the home user (I'm 30 now)
>  > >
>  > > When I was 9 going on 10 back in 1987 I can remember my Dad bringing
>  > > home a Apple Mac with the black and white screen.  The computer was so
>  > > amazing so advance for the time.  That when my love for computers
>  > > started...
>  > >
>  > > Thanks
>  > >
>  > > Toby
>  > >
>  > >
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>  > In 1979 I visited Queen Mary Collage London. They had a couple of
>  > amazing computers, Xerox PARC machines. These were from the Palo Alto
>  > Research Center in California. The first implementation of Windows Icon
>  > Mouse Point interface WIMP. They were very similar to Apple Mac. They
>  > demonstrated a card game in the user interface. This was amazing to see
>  > the future of computers. I think it was another 5 years before the Atari
>  > ST and Amega not until 1988 before OS/2 presentation Manager and
>  > Windows. My first Windows computer in 1989 had 3MB of RAM and it was
>  > crap on OS/2 and Windows where as I had been using GEM in 1985 on the
>  > Atari ST and the Apricot.
>  >  It was 1992 before Windows caught up with the first Apple Mac.
>  >
>  > Compared to those early graphical machines Windows Vista is a big
>  > disappointment given it's size and development time. True that Windows
>  > was totally useless until version 3.0 but that had a lot to do with RAM,
>  > if you had 8Meg RAM it was OK. Now you need 2GB and your OK. Apple are
>  > far more innovative and their computers far easier for users. However
>  > because their hardware and software is strictly controlled they are less
>  > friendly for hackers and third party developers. With the OS/X running
>  > on Intel Apple have loosened their grip on their OS.
>  >
>  > I wonder if our LUG should do a distro?
>  >
>  >
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