[Wiltshire] Library presentation was Meeting tomorrow

[David Fletcher]

On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009, Sharon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> With all this in mind will you be using live CD's on the day, and will 
> you have different versions or are you going for gnu as was mentioned 
> earlier? What date are you planning to hold this event because if I'm 
> not working I would love to pop in.
> 
> Sorry if this is a bit long winded.
> 
> Sharon
> 

Not at all, it's great to see a new name here enjoying free software.

I've been running Kubuntu for the last couple of years, switching from Fedora. 
John L runs Ubuntu on his laptop (same basic distribution, with the other 
desktop).

But, I've been having a little play with Debian Lenny, running it as a virtual 
machine. I have to say that I feel very tempted, when I next upgrade, to 
install the 64 bit Debian. I very much like the network installation method, 
which fetches a whole set of up to date packages from the Debian repository 
as it installs them. You can also do loads of choices, such as server or 
desktop install, and choose whether to install KDE or Gnome, all from the 
same small ISO. I like it.

So, no, we won't be running live CDs I don't think, as we're relatively 
hardened long time users of Linux with everything installed directly on to 
the main hard drive. If we need to use anything else, such as XP, I think we 
tend to run them as virtual machines.

Dave



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