[Gllug] BETT at Olympia

[Eddie]

We've taken the KNOPPIX disk and have had it tidied up a bit for the UK
market. If this is of help you are welcome to it.

Eddie

On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 00:33, Mick Farmer wrote:
> Dear UKUUG elders & GLLUGers,
> 
> First, let me declare my UKUUG interest, having served as
> its Chair for a number of years.
> 
> Second, the idea of a "schools/educational Linux CD" has
> been bounced around a number of user groups, including the
> UKUUG, for a number of years.  Personally, I can't see why
> we can't get a working Linux CD out there next week - if
> only we can agree on its contents - and there lies the rub.
> We have the various Linux distributions, but which one shall
> we promote?  Is there a "generic GNU/Linux model" available?
> 
> The so-called "UNIX wars" at the end of the last century
> enabled Microsoft to capture the desktop without a serious
> fight, because the various UNIX factions were fighting
> themselves (okay, I admit the UNIX desktop at that time was
> not that good :-).  Surely we must learn from this.  We now
> have OpenOffice.com and other "compatability tools" such as
> Wine.  Let's not let them take our schools and campuses
> without some form of decent resistance!
> 
> I seem to remember a talk from Linus about "world
> domination" a few years ago.  Why not go for it?  What have
> we got to lose?  The majority of us use Linux by choice
> anyway.  Let's go out and evangelise with bootable CDs and
> hand-holding just a phone call away - there are so many
> people in the GLLUG and UKUUG who understand Linux/UNUX
> backwards who would be willing to help.
> 
> Get a few educational system administrators saying in public
> that they've chosen Linux, and you'll start a movement
> that's unstopable!  Let's just do it. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mick               /"\                      
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