[Menai-LUG] Freeduc demo linux

[Kevin Donnelly]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 2:09 pm, Mr R G Shepherd wrote:
> i have a copy of the demonstration linux distribution freeduc - based on
> knoppix. from LXF36.
>
> it is quite good as a demonstration tool to show people what linux is
> without installing anything...it's only drawback is that it is slow.!!
> (running entirely from CD)
> having said that it wasn't too bad on a 32MB 400Mhz UMAX laptop AND my
> patience is very easily destroyed by things like this...
> it's hardware detection is very good (it recognised my usb wireless
> trackball no probs and ran on a laptop as well)

Yes, this is pretty impressive.  On the copy I tried, some of the apps didn't 
seem to work, but the tkCircuit thing, TuxPaint and the Chinese dictionary 
were really good.  Did you try mounting dirs from your hard drive, and if so, 
what results did you get?

Kevin