[Lancaster] Re: Install Fest

[Ken Hough]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:17:37PM +0100, Kristof Van Laerhoven wrote:
> 
>>Ken Hough wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Kristof Van Laerhoven wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>- if everyone brings the installation discs of distros they have 
>>>>experience with (anyone covering Gentoo?) we should be fine,
>>>
>>>Is Gentoo really appropriate for this event? We won't have time to 
>>>compile a complete installation, so what would it offer as binaries?
>>
>>I know, I know, I wasn't serious of course.. having said that, it 
>>*would* be interesting to see someone installing it - for us foreigners 
>>it might be like watching a game of cricket unfold  ;)

No! It would be much more interesting than cricket, unless it was the 
'Poms' bashing the 'Aussies'.

> 
> 
> Actually, I've done several desktops using a Gentoo Stage 3 install - so
> your entire base system comes precompiled and you just use emerge to install
> additional software. It functions quite similarly to $BSD + ports/pkgsrc at
> that point, and is rather nice - and was the inspiration behind our in-house
> Slack + pkgsrc distro (codename PkgSlack). PkgSlack is rather slimmer, though
> - <200Mb for a base install.
> 
> One that *is* well worth considering is VectorLinux, a desktop-oriented
> Slack-derived distro whose latest release has gorgeous KDE and Gnome desktops
> and a mostly-working preview of the new e17 Enlightenment release.
> 

Hang on a minute! We're doing installations for supposedly 'newbies'. 
Shouldn't we stick to mainstream user friendly distros so that they can 
more easily find help after we have gone?


Ken Hough