ITEC Planning [Was: Free Fedora CDs]

[Jack]

--- Jason Clinton wrote:

> On Friday 07 October 2005 01:25 pm, Jack wrote:
> > 50 Mandriva, 100 Ubuntu, and 50 Fedora, 50 SuSE.
> They
> > should all be user friendly enough. Unless someone
> > tells me not to burn any.
> 
> Well if you're going to burn different ones anyway,
> just make sure they are 
> Live CD's. The SuSE installer is 4 discs, for
> instance.
> 
Well, I'll burn whatever anyone thinks is a good idea.
Since I haven't heard from anyone one what will be at
the booth, I figured we should have something. Not
much reason in having a booth if we don't have any
distros to hand out. I know we'll wind up with
something. But it's better to have some idea before
hand and it's better that we don't have to have
whoever is manning the booth to have to burn CDs the
whole time. I figured if I burnt a variety at least
they could be demo'ed. I could burn some installer
DVDs, too. Undoubtedly if I burn more than 1 distro
we'll eventually run out of at least one of the
distros, but that's the nature of the beast. I think
it would probably be easy enough to make some usable
installer cds also, but like you said it'd take more
than 1 disc per. I think It would be safe to say that
most distros will do a decent install with only the
discs 1 and 2. But I'd have to verify that. Hence it
would be better to give live CDs or DVDs.

I'm downloading Kubuntu now. I prefer the KDE desktop
to Gnome, but haven't tried Gnome in a while. Any
discussion?
Also the Kubuntu uses a single install CD. I have both
the install and the live versions. I'll try them out,
here and play with some of the others. Do we know who
is going to be manning the booth and when? Is there a
sign up sheet or something? Normally I don't miond the
chaos that is KCLUG, but it's a bit self-defeating at
times like this. Oh well.

Brian JD