[HLUG] PC's and Distro's

[Sarah Chard]

points accepted -  and we are ubuntu heavy but that I suppose reflects
what alot if us are using - not really planning to bring my eee as it's
a work machine unless totally necessary! - might try mandriva at some
point :)
Mint on the other laptop then
no vinux but have the info to hand

matt will need to really check his system runs smoothly on the kit you
can come up with - nothing worse than having something to demo and it
keeps breaking - 

-- 
Sarah

SFD event - 18 Sept 2010 - 
http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is


On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 12:10 +0100, info at lifespacedesign.co.uk wrote:
> 
> On 04 September 2010 at 12:31 Sarah Chard <sarah at streetentertainers.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > just checked and we will have
> > rob - 1 x laptop ubuntu 10.04
> > paul 1 x laptop windows 7 - cross platform floss apps
> > Julian - ?? don't know what he is bringing 
> That'll be Ubuntu then...
> 
> > Matt - edubuntu
> > pete - your 2 machines with ?? 
> A year's worth of LXF DVD's, possibly 50 plus different distro's. I still favour
> PCLinuxOS as an install demo as it's only a CD, so it's quick.
> The free LXF mags we have include a DVD with OpenSuse 11.3 and Mandriva 2010
> Spring ( and tiny core Linux).
> 
> plus my laptop with mint/vinux if it can> take both - if it cannot we will have
> to put vinux on one of your boxes 
> Nope, the point of VINUX is the user interface, including braille output
> devices. We can just point general interest at the vinux website and the RNCB.
> After Wednesday we should be able to talk in an informed way to any potential
> users that drop in. Tony has offered a load of Vinux install CD's, and it is
> worth us having some, as you never know!
>  
> 
> > as this is now a priority and keep the laptop as mint
> > I have an eee I can bring running ubuntu netbook version 10.04 if it is
> > needed (but we are ubuntu heavy!) 
> Fancy putting Mandriva 2010 on it instead? The whole distro runs fine on this
> Acer Aspireone. I have an external DVD drive for loading.
> 
> >
> > is this a large enough cross section of distro's? bearing in mind our
> > publicity up to this point. We have now committed to demo'ing vinux, 
> Nope, the demo is on wednesday for the press. Tony cannot make it for ISFD.
> Demo'ing vinux in any relevant way needs all the peripherals to be present and
> well configured as well as an experienced user to handle FAQ's.
>  
> 
> > I have kubuntu discs as well as ubuntu server discs as giveaways -
> > Matts idea is good but I am aware that we don't want to move too far
> > from our original plan which was based on the premis that most people
> > will be interested in the cross platform software and will not have
> > great technical knowledge. 
> Matts plan (if I understand it correctly) goes to the heart of cheap and simple
> educational roll out (client/server style), I think we make the effort to enable
> him to demo it so we can impress any education IT admins or teachers/managers.
> 
> So we show them what linux is and talk about> it using the cross platform OS
> software as a starting point -
> >
> > --
> > Sarah
> >
> > SFD event - 18 Sept 2010 -
> > http://piratepad.net/n7Tuzn49Is
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 11:09 +0100, info at lifespacedesign.co.uk wrote:
> > > In view of recent developments with terminal/server networks and
> > > booting from
> > > USB drives I am inclined to drop one of the two demo machines in
> > > favour of
> > > prioritising a box for you to demo network and usb boot/installs.
> >
> >
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