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Good point. I should admit at this point I'm not concerned for the newbies so much as myself :( I havent used apt-get in a long time. Maybe I'll wear some glasses and fake facial hair and pretend to be a newbie... --mat On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 07:40, John Hebert wrote: > We discussed it earlier and decided upon Debian. The automated dependency= =20 > resolution was the main reason. Most of the machines brought to past=20 > install fests were low powered; 486s, Pentiums, etc. Distros like RedHat=20 > and Mandrake are more suited to higher powered machines. >=20 > We are open to other distros. I'll bring most of the CD Library so we'll=20 > have lots of distros to pick from. >=20 > John Hebert >=20 > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:31:39 -0500, Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED] t>=20 > wrote: >=20 > > For academic purposes it is free indefinately. For Commercial purposes= , > > there is a trial period. I have a copy burnt (played around with it a > > little bit). I am going to try to make it to the install fest, and if = I > > can, I will definately bring it. > > > > So Debian installs for the newbies? hmm... Why not something like > > Redhat or the other more userfriendly distros? > > > > --mat > > > > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 21:56, John Hebert wrote: > >> On 13 Jul 2003 15:45:35 -0500, Lt. Kernel individual=20 > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > I'm not at the level of guru yet, but I've sure installed enough > > Linux > >> > Distros to help out at the install fest. Playing with new OS's is my > >> > hobby, so I have a pretty good selection. Which ones do you think > > would > >> > be good to offer at the install fest? Here's a list of what I have: > >> > > >> > FreeBSD > >> > QNX > >> > Gentoo (although I haven't installed it on a HD yet) > >> > JAMD Linu (my favorite) > >> > Mandrake 8.1 > >> > Yellow Dog (for any mac users) > >> > Bonzai (based on Debian) > >> > NetBSD (both x86 and SPARC versions) > >> > LNX-BBC (live cd for recovery or experienced users) > >> > >> I think we were planning to do Debian installs, although that's not > > carved > >> in stone. > >> > >> Is QNX free? > > >=20 >=20 --=-jZKPZvguZ+kVsDJ/1LeD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/ErZPadbUG229XJoRApY+AKDE6cFs2YUkaZhmjvXCnJbgK/qovgCgyEHk eXjwObPgLLRHR7IheO2anyw= =N1ri -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-jZKPZvguZ+kVsDJ/1LeD--
