[YLUG] Installfest preparations

Harry Mills mail at hjmills.co.uk
Thu Oct 25 17:34:53 BST 2007


Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 22 Oct 07, Zoe Stephenson (zrs1 at york.ac.uk) wrote:
>> - Other distros/OSs/apps - I know there are people here who are more
>> familiar with other distros, would be neat to have some idea of who can
>> bring what (it's rare that a random machine won't work with ubuntu, but
>> if it's going to happen it's likely to happen at the installday).
>> Similarly, if we could diversify and demonstrate Free software on OSX
>> and that Windows thingy, that might be useful to the visitors.  Anyone
>> willing to show off other stuff?  Inferno?  PC-BSD?  Haiku?  I'd love
>> to see some of these things in action and the installfest seems like a
>> good place to do this.
>  
> I'll burn a few x86 64 bit cds (Ubuntu & Debian) for the install day,
> and a handfull or so of The OpenCD (open source software for windows).
> 
> PC-BSD if I can find one, I've checked openbsd but their iso is a 3 meg
> boot floppy for network installation, so probably no use.
> 
> If anyone has a DVD burner and some reasonable gaming hardware (that
> they can take to the install day) then the live-linux games DVD might be
> interesting for a demo - http://live.linux-gamers.net/
> 
> any other special requests? 
> 
> 
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I can do the gaming DVD but I don't think I can get there till midday 
saturday. I am happy to burn the DVD for anybody who wants a copy.

I am also going to make a KDM theme when I get a chance if I can to 
match the GDM theme.

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Regards,

Harry Mills <mail at hjmills.co.uk>
http://hjmills.co.uk



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