[Preston] April meeting

[Georgina]

Hi

Strangely enough, Ubuntu is the distro that offers us the most up-to-date
access technology.  However, installing with orca is very difficult and
there's no support for speakup.  Therefore, providing a sighted person
installs Ubuntu otherwise it's not much use to blind linux users.

I do like to build my own kernel tailored to the hardware anyway, the stock
kernels tend to be rather bloated and don't always provide for my needs.
For example, Fedora 7 2.6.21 kernel have not included AX25 support.
However, the debian sarge kernel 2.6.18 does have the amateur radio support.
But not support for my audio which is required for some of the AX25 support.

Regards
-----Original Message-----
From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Stephen Johnson
Sent: 31 March 2008 17:20
To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
Cc: guy at member.fsf.org
Subject: RE: [Preston] April meeting


im running nvidia chipset and gpu on a amd64 pit machine and it runs out of
the box fine on Ubuntu


On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:14 +0100, Georgina wrote:
> Hi Guy and all
> 
> I wouldn't want to get in the way of a man and his beer! <smiles>  But 
> I don't have any ideas of a specific topic for demonstration.  
> However, I wondered if you could have a workshop type session?  
> Without any guarantees, well only to brake it! <giggles>
> 
> I've just built a computer and I can't build a kernel for it.  I've 
> got Fedora 8 and debian installed.  We could time the booting time 
> between the two distros and if we can crack the kernel issue, we can 
> time that boot time.  My problem is that the board has a Nvidia 
> chipset.  I've never had an issue with arch=i386 Via chipsets but this 
> arch=AMD64 Nvidia is driving me crazy.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gena
> -----Original Message-----
> From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Guy Heatley
> Sent: 31 March 2008 16:12
> To: Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group
> Subject: [Preston] April meeting
> 
> 
> Tomorrow is the 1st Tuesday of the month, and I'm afraid I've had no
> time to prepare a new topic for discussion!
> If no-one has anything up their sleeve maybe we could just go to the 
> Greyfriar for a few beers?
> I've been pretty busy in the last few weeks, unfortunately...
> 
> Here are some links concerning things we discussed at the last 
> meeting:-
> 
> Encrypting data with the device mapper and LUKS. 
> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=EncryptedDeviceUsingL
> UKS
> http://feraga.com/node/51
>
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-disk-encryption-with-dm-crypt-luks-and-
> debian 
> 
> 
> Writing UDEV rules for hot-pluggable devices. 
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
> 
> Cheers!