On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Nat Tuck wrote:
<schnipp, schnapp>
> Q: What's the best distro? (Alt. What's your favorite distro?)
> A: Slackware, but you wouldn't like it. I suggest Mandrake,
> RedHat, SuSE, or Caldera OpenLinux - Debian's good too if you
> like a stable, well tested system and don't mind older
> software versions.
Uh, what Rick said :)
I run it on one of my PPC boxen (not macs, so can't really personally use
the Yellow Dog distro they sent us, but it's one of our prizes), and have
been very impressed with it. Once Corel puts the front end install thingy
on it, Debian's gonna kick everybody's ass :). I found a bug in mirror's
install and the fix was pushed through a few days later with
autonotification to me that the bug was fixed. In fact the longest step so
far has been getting me to report the bugs I found :). One was an install
requirement for mirror, the other is either a bash or a bug bug on PPC.
Our Debian guy is doing his first installs in 5 years because he's working
on the install mechanism for PPC. And from what he tells me, his system
isn't out of date.
> Q: Can't I download it free off the 'net?
> A: Yup, It'll take about a week though. Don't pick up the phone
> or something, you'll have to start over. The easier way is to
> buy a box at CompUSA, or get a CD online from LSL for $3.
>
> We did manage to get through the demo with only 2 people who really
> knew how to use Linux, but it was a little hard when we had like 15
> people waiting.
>
> A raffle proved to be impossible to do, so we just straight out sold
> the things we weren't handing out for the standard retail price. This
> payed for the space. (A raffle would have been hard because verry few
> of the people who showed up were technically competent enough to know
> what to do with a full version of SuSE for example, and also getting
> the prize to the winner would have been difficult at best)
We ran it the same way as we do our meetings. We gave out carnival tickets
and occasionally (generally on the hour) drew a couple. You had to be
present to win, then you could take your pick from the prize stash.
Granted, this upped the odds for the volunteers since we were there the
whole time :). I think vols got 10-20%. (I won a SuSE t-shirt :).
We also had lots of things that were just free for the taking, e.g.
stickers, the SuSE demo CDs and a whole bunch of demo CDs for some
development package.
ciao,
der.hans
> We didn't manage to hand out even half of the SuSE CDs, but they'll get
> handed out at LUG meetings or whatever no problem.
>
> We couldn't quite figure out what the Applix SHELF CDs were good for,
> but a lot of the people who came in took a copy, so...
>
> All in all it was a successful demo. Cape Ann Linux Users' Group now
> consists of 3 active members, as opposed to the two members when I woke
> up this morning. (We actually had 6 people helping out at the demo, but
> four of them had minimal Linux experiance so could basically just make
> sure that people didn't walk out with random things, etc...)
>
> -Nat Tuck (CALUG)
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