[Lancaster] Install Fest (was: Software Freedom Day)

[mp]

hi,

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 19:39 +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Also on the LiveCD for Ubuntu. Worth having them, someone might feel 
> uncomfortable about completely re-installing the PC with Linux,

Concerning both straight-up-Ubuntu and Ubuntu-Live, it may be worth
thinking of Kubuntu:
http://www.kubuntu.org/~amu/kubuntu-5.04.5-i386-live.iso
(http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/hoary/)
This is *not* an attempt to get into religiouos flames about desktop
superiority, but simply because Ubuntu uses a rather grim shite-brown
version of Gnome, while Kubuntu has a more-like-windows-looking blue and
conventional desktop that is less likely to scare strangers to the free
software universe. The obvious alternative, if you have got Ubuntu from
shipit already is, of course:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

>  but I would 
> be satisfied to some degree by installing OpenOffice, FireFox, Thunderbird 
> and possibly the GIMP.

Another thing to think of when it comes to campus use (students/staff)
is that ISS uses Fedora (since they started with Red Hat) and therefore
offer (very limited) unofficially a bit of support ....

-mp
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