Hello all-
We, Orange County Linux Users Group, had to hold our demo early, on Sat.
the 11th, because the president of PC Club (where we did our demo)
suggested it. He said we would get better traffic on Saturday than Sunday.
Here is the equipment we had:
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-AMD K6/2-350, 192 MB RAM, 50x CD, 24x4x2 CDR, with 2 swappable HDs:
1)Mandrake 6.0 kernel 2.2.9-mdk -KDE and Gnome
2)Caldera Open Linux 2.2 kernel 2.2.5 -KDE and Gnome
-Pentium 200MMX, 64 meg RAM
1)RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36-3 -KDE
-486/50 Laptop, 20MB RAM
1)Win95- Used for VNC demo with Linux (similar to PC Anywhere)
-AMD K6/2-350, 32M RAM, 32X CD-ROM
1)SuSE Linux 6.1- WindowMaker and Gnome
-Pentium 233MMX, 64M RAM, 32x CD
1)RedHat 6.0, kernel 2.2.5-15 - Enlightenment and Gnome
We networked all of these together, and demonstrated how Linux and Windows
can cooperate.
We also had 2 Macs we wanted to put Yellowdog or LinuxPPC on, but none of
us had the Mac distros, which was a bummer. We tried getting them to work
on the LAN, but didn't work.
-iMac G3-333, Lime
-PowerMac G3-400, Apple Studio Flat Panel disp., Teal
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Here is what we ran:
StarOffice 5.1, Emacs, X11Amp, Netscape with LinuxBerg CD (we didn't have
access to Net), VNC - connected to 486/Win95, Myth II Demo, LinuxDoom,
Quake3Test, others
We had a total of 5 volunteers, 3 of us were OCLUG members and fairly
experienced, one is a "new recruit", with good deal of technical knowledge
(brought the Macs), and one is my friend who is also learning the "ways of
the force". We were at PC Club in Anaheim, California, from 10am-5pm. The
morning hours had pretty good traffic, we talked to several people. The
afternoon hours were pretty slow. A couple people may stop by our next
meeting, so that is good.
Mostly people wanted to see how it works, see if they can do the same stuff
that they do in Windows.
Some asked if they can use their Windows stuff in Linux, some asked if
there are any good games available, etc.
We didn't really hand out any of the sponsor stuff, there wasn't that much
traffic. A few people liked those bumper stickers. We didn't want to just
hand out distro CDs though.
We will distribute the "goods" at our next couple of meetings.
We will probably still be getting more stuff from the sponsors throughout
the week, because it still runs thru the 18th, and for many companies,
there is only maybe one person doing the mailing for some 130 LUGs
worldwide. Whatever else we get will be given out or raffled off at our
meetings, with the volunteers getting first pick.
All in all, we learned a few things, such as:
-pick a place with better traffic flow
-give more advance notice to place of demo
-advertise more, perhaps a blurb in local papers
-be prepared... bring every distro CD you have, you never know
If anyone has questions regarding our demo, please feel free to post them.
Thanks-
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Matt M
LinuxKnight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Orange County Linux Users Group: www.oclug.org
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