RE: Fwd: ITEC Oct 26-27 Overland Park Convention Center
Knoppix 4.0 is due to be released. I checked yesterday and it was not on the mirrors in the US yet. We could also do some damnsmalllinux and Mepis disks. I have at least 2 PCs that can burn at home. Tell me your pleasure. Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. ---Occam -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Chris Bier Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:33 PM To: KCLUG (E-mail) Subject: Re: Fwd: ITEC Oct 26-27 Overland Park Convention Center -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Luke-Jr wrote:
I have several Ubuntu CD's I can donate to the cause. I asked them to only send me one, but they ended up sending me 10-15; I didn't count exactly.
I also have Ubuntu CD packets-- about 10 of each of PowerPC, x86, and x86_64... let me know if there's expectation of needing them
We generally hand out a few hundred Live CDs that we burn. Feel free to donate any current Live CDs. In the past, we've handed out Knoppix and the win32 Open Software CD. Chris
On 8/17/05, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
Knoppix 4.0 is due to be released. I checked yesterday and it was not on the mirrors in the US yet. We could also do some damnsmalllinux and Mepis disks. I have at least 2 PCs that can burn at home. Tell me your pleasure.
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. ---Occam
How does anyone feel about some of the up-and-comers, like BeatrIX (www.watsky.net), or Puppy (www.puppylinux.org)? Ubuntu Lite is a project I've been watching (and posting to the Google Group some) and they seem to be starting something nice for low-end machines, but they certainly aren't at a point of handing it out randomly yet. Bea and Puppy do nice LiveCDs, and have support for HD installs. Bea is known to support WINE/Crossover Office for that Winders hankering... And both are designed for mini or credit card CDs. I think the "cute" factor can entice some people as freebies to try out. Bea has Beatrix the cat as the mascot, and Puppy has Puppy the chihuahua as the mascot.
--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/17/05, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
Knoppix 4.0 is due to be released. I checked yesterday and it was not on the mirrors in the US yet.
I've downloaded the KNOPPIX 4.0 DVD, German edition, it works decently enough except that the keyboard mapping is some weird DVORAK-like layout. Finding the "equals" sign was very difficult.
We could also do some damnsmalllinux and Mepis disks. I have at least 2 PCs that can burn at home. Tell me your pleasure.
How does anyone feel about some of the up-and-comers, like BeatrIX (www.watsky.net), or Puppy (www.puppylinux.org)? Ubuntu Lite is a project I've been watching (and posting to the Google Group some) and they seem to be starting something nice for low-end machines, but they certainly aren't at a point of handing it out randomly yet.
Bea and Puppy do nice LiveCDs, and have support for HD installs. Bea is known to support WINE/Crossover Office for that Winders hankering... And both are designed for mini or credit card CDs. I think the "cute" factor can entice some people as freebies to try out.
Bea has Beatrix the cat as the mascot, and Puppy has Puppy the chihuahua as the mascot.
I've tried the BeaTRIX LiveCD, its cute and is feature-packed. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
--- Jon Pruente <jdpruente@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/17/05, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
Knoppix 4.0 is due to be released. I checked yesterday and it was not on the mirrors in the US yet. We could also do some damnsmalllinux and Mepis disks. I have at least 2 PCs that can burn at home. Tell me your pleasure.
How does anyone feel about some of the up-and-comers, like BeatrIX (www.watsky.net), or Puppy (www.puppylinux.org)? Ubuntu Lite is a project I've been watching (and posting to the Google Group some) and they seem to be starting something nice for low-end machines, but they certainly aren't at a point of handing it out randomly yet.
I had an idea about using eMovix to really show off the capabilities of Linux. Bascially, we hand out eMovix LiveCDs which have some public domain or home creation video on it, showing off that Linux really has a wide variety of uses. For those who don't know, eMovix is a LiveCD which crams itself into a small chunk of the LiveCD, letting you put a video or videos on the CD, which are then played by the LiveCD eMovix video software. I was thinking it would be a decent way to showcase Linux capabilities and at the same time show off, say, a videotaped KCLUG meeting or even some form of video helpdesk. An example might be a video presentation of how easy it is to use a KNOPPIX LiveCD. Or we could hand out public-domain copies of "Night Of The Living Dead" (from http://www.archive.org/). I mention this movie merely because it is public domain and also well-known. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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