I thought I might revive this thread to mention that Fedora 8 is scheduled to be released on November 8th, the second day of ITEC. If you're still looking for software to hand out, Fedora 8 will be freshly 'released' that morning at 9AM central time. If you brought a laptop and a spindle of DVD-Rs, you'd have a chance to start burning as the doors open (assuming they have a big connection there).
On 9/28/07, Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/28/07, cragos@gmail.com cragos@gmail.com wrote:
FLOSS for Windows: TheOpenCD: It was a nice package, but the big stuff was already on the Ubuntu LiveCDs. At least as recently as the last LTS build, they were shipping with Windows installers for OOo, Firefox, and one other app (Thunderbird or GAIM?). In Edgy Eft, they were shipping with AbiWord, GAIM, Thunderbird, Firefox, and the Gimp.
For most people that aren't ready to install Linux yet, that's a pretty good sampling of FLOSS. I've always liked having something for them, and the fact that Ubuntu works 3 different ways (Windows FLOSS, Live Linux, Installed Linux) all on one CD has made it my fave since they first
It might be best to do a sheet of printed material with URLs of various resources, but we might as well just put that on kclug.org so it's clickable.
Gotta remember to get some more blank business cards....
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On 10/24/07, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
I thought I might revive this thread to mention that Fedora 8 is scheduled to be released on November 8th, the second day of ITEC. If you're still looking for software to hand out, Fedora 8 will be freshly 'released' that morning at 9AM central time. If you brought a laptop and a spindle of DVD-Rs, you'd have a chance to start burning as the doors open (assuming they have a big connection there).
Experience shows that when we have more than one thing to give out, everyone wants one of each. That's not so bad when it's a distro plus an OpenCD or equivalent, but DVDs are a bit more expensive. And unless the Fedora DVD can also work as a "live" disk, I don't think we should be giving them out. Anything that requires them to jump in with both feet won't be well received.
That's why I'm hoping that Ubuntu will supply us a couple hundred CDs. How's that order coming along?
If anyone has a working bootable USB keychain image, we'll be able to make those for people who bring their own media. If it's true that other exhibitors are giving those away, we can grab up some and pre-record them, and trade them out for blanks people bring us.
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