[YLUG] Installfest preparations

Zoe Stephenson zrs1 at york.ac.uk
Fri Oct 26 16:31:13 BST 2007


On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:08:38PM +0100, 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.

I mean _PC-BSD_:

  http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/21/11/

Apparently Haiku don't have isos, just HDD / vmware images:

  http://haiku-os.org/downloads

I'll see if there's time to do some OSX stuff this weekend.

-- 
 -- zoe



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