[dundee] Meeting

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 09:16, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 03:11:15PM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote: 
> > Anyways getting back on topic. Some of the more interesting topics I
> > could talk about (as opposed to some of the more mundane, blurry eyed
> > ones) might be: 
> >History of Unix/Linux.	Contrary to popular belief, Linux didn't just
> > 			burst out of nowhere in 1998 ;)
> > and
> > 
> > Whats coming up in the 2.6 kernel.
> >
> Ah, very good idea indeed. Would be nice to start at the start in
> every sense. I think this should definitely go into the meeting.
> 
> I'm going to download some Linux ISO's to have a practice install with
> soon, so if anyone has any preference let me know soon. There's a
> little voice in the back of my head going "Show them Debian" but it
> might scare newbies off, will have a look at the new sarge installer
> just in case they've automated X and sound setup a little more.
> 

If your aiming this towards 'newbies' then I think I would have to
suggest one of, RedHat, Mandrake or SuSE.

For the more advanced user, Debian, Gentoo or Slackware

For the 'hacker', LFS ;)

 
> More ideas for topics are welcome, I'm sure we'll get around to you at
> another meeting if we don't manage this time (mwahahahahaa! What do
> you mean I left the internal mental dialogue on? Ooops *click*)(1).
> 
> Mark
> 
> (1) It's Saturday and I've been up since 6:30am. :) 
> 
> 

Ouch....


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Andrew Clayton