[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe
Hi Guyz Thanks for the feedback...yes I will be setting up printing and I downloaded a copy of mint from TAFE...I did as well look at E Live as it was in the same article that I read in APC Mag...I'll be starting my try outs later in the week. No I've yet to do research on the hardware and if it'll work with Linux, my approach was to put the distro's on flash drives and try it out and see what happens. What do you suggest Mike? Yours in Wellness John Nielsen CEO BAMedia Wellness Marketing and Event Management ABN 32 710 132 20 bammeb...@gmail.com + 61 (0) 449 065 729 (Vodafone Cell Phone) ICQ 70972773 Skype fuzzy8561 Excellence in Service Provision www.awareconnections.com On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:34, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.comwrote: Hi John, Linuxmint is dead simple. All the additional bits and pieces are installed at, well, install. I think all the major 'nix's are easy to use and install, it's really just multimedia and other bits that some people have trouble with. Mint makes this a non-issue, as do Mepis and others (names not readily available to my mind this early in the morning). Regards, Patrick John wrote: Subject: [SLUG] Newbie alert and Community Net cafe Hi all First of all I need recommendations on what would be good and simple to use for the average end user, I've been looking at http://www.linuxmint.com/ and and then https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntuhas been recommended by a friend of mine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe
Thanks for the info Patrick, It's the first time i've heard of a distro asking for a donation too, though $10 really isn't that much I had mixed feelings about the approach too. That said, I guess it's a good way to get some contribution from people, I always intend on giving donations to the projects I use but more often than not i just never get around to it. (I hope that the simple merchandise I do buy goes to the project somehow though) John that's a good idea to get it booting on a USB, You could trying reading stuff here http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ or unetbootin to get that happening. I guess the main things you've got to worry about are going to be VGA cards and printers. Maybe webcams too I don't know. These days if you do your research in advance and buy the right product then lots of this stuff can be simply plug and play - I know my Logitech webcam was but my Brother printer sure as hell wasn't! On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:26 AM, John Nielsen bammeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guyz Thanks for the feedback...yes I will be setting up printing and I downloaded a copy of mint from TAFE...I did as well look at E Live as it was in the same article that I read in APC Mag...I'll be starting my try outs later in the week. No I've yet to do research on the hardware and if it'll work with Linux, my approach was to put the distro's on flash drives and try it out and see what happens. What do you suggest Mike? Yours in Wellness John Nielsen CEO BAMedia Wellness Marketing and Event Management ABN 32 710 132 20 bammeb...@gmail.com + 61 (0) 449 065 729 (Vodafone Cell Phone) ICQ 70972773 Skype fuzzy8561 Excellence in Service Provision www.awareconnections.com On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 08:34, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.comwrote: Hi John, Linuxmint is dead simple. All the additional bits and pieces are installed at, well, install. I think all the major 'nix's are easy to use and install, it's really just multimedia and other bits that some people have trouble with. Mint makes this a non-issue, as do Mepis and others (names not readily available to my mind this early in the morning). Regards, Patrick John wrote: Subject: [SLUG] Newbie alert and Community Net cafe Hi all First of all I need recommendations on what would be good and simple to use for the average end user, I've been looking at http://www.linuxmint.com/ and and then https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntuhas been recommended by a friend of mine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe
Hi John, Linuxmint is dead simple. All the additional bits and pieces are installed at, well, install. I think all the major 'nix's are easy to use and install, it's really just multimedia and other bits that some people have trouble with. Mint makes this a non-issue, as do Mepis and others (names not readily available to my mind this early in the morning). Regards, Patrick John wrote: Subject: [SLUG] Newbie alert and Community Net cafe Hi all First of all I need recommendations on what would be good and simple to use for the average end user, I've been looking at http://www.linuxmint.com/and and then https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu has been recommended by a friend of mine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe
I was curious about Mike's comment that his friend had to pay to download the elive distro so had a look at the site: http://www.elivecd.org/Download/Stable It states the following: *** Why request a donation ? Elive is free and made with pleasure for your pleasure, but free does not mean no cost . I spend all my time developing Elive. It is my choice. Your choice is whether or not downloading Elive is worth a donation. You decide the value Elive has for you. What do you obtain ? You maintain the future of Elive and you also receive faster downloads. No Money: If you can't possible to donate for Download Elive, we propose you those solutions: The better option is to use our invitation codes system You can try Elive from a development version. Note: For the next stable release, it is planned to allow the download totally free. Instead of pay for the download you should pay just for the installation. This means that the live mode is entirely free and you should pay only if you want to install Elive in your hard disk. *** They have another option which they are calling 'Invitation': What is an invitation code ? * The invitation code is a simple way to invite everybody to download the stable version of Elive Gem (note that there are no invitation codes for the bonus disks) * A code works only one time Where can I get a code ? If a friend gives you a code, you can use it directly to download the stable version of Elive. But if you don't have a code, there are different ways to obtain it: * Give us the name of some linux magazines in your country and especially the contact email added, send it to us and we give you 3 codes for every contact, more info about this in this news article * Write an article about Elive on any website you like, we give you at least 6 codes for this, depending of the importance of the website and how good the article is (if it is a big or well known website with a lot of visitors) we can give up to 30 codes !! * Moreover, for each of your codes shared on a Linux message-board, mailing list, or forum, we will grant you 2 new ones!!! (please provide a link for verification) * If you need Elive for using in educational environments please contact us from the institutional email of your teacher, and we will be more than happy to provide you with as many free codes as you need. That's all ? Yes, when you have what you need simply contact us at To use the codes you simply put (or paste) it in the invitations page It's an interesting approach. It would appear you can pay less than $15 - the minimum is 10 (of your currency). I can understand why they believe they need money to continue. I'm just not certain how they manage to distinguish their service distinctly enough to cause people to want to pay them. The market is limited I would think given you can get some great distros for free. I wish them the best - though I haven't tried their distro and am not likely to pay for one which is not apparently better than the one I currently use. Regards, Patrick 2009/11/14 Mike Andy beatbreake...@gmail.com I know a novice user who was using Mint and was pretty happy with how it all just worked for him. There's no loss just trying the live CD and seeing how you like it at face value. I don't remember why but he ended up changing to Elive http://www.elivecd.org/ It uses LXDE. It's debian based and probably works very much like *buntu, he said it was easier to install and configure and even more stuff just worked out of the box. You have to pay something like $15 for the download though. It's just another option I guess. Have you done any research to make sure that your hardware will work fine with Linux? No doubt you'll have to set up printing if it's going to be in an internet cafe. On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:34 AM, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Linuxmint is dead simple. All the additional bits and pieces are installed at, well, install. I think all the major 'nix's are easy to use and install, it's really just multimedia and other bits that some people have trouble with. Mint makes this a non-issue, as do Mepis and others (names not readily available to my mind this early in the morning). Regards, Patrick John wrote: Subject: [SLUG] Newbie alert and Community Net cafe Hi all First of all I need recommendations on what would be good and simple to use for the average end user, I've been looking at http://www.linuxmint.com/and and then https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu has been recommended by a friend of mine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -
[SLUG] Re: Newbie
At 16 Apr 2002 09:42:50 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: According to the notes recently on slug wine does not support directx so it probably will not support games very well. wine does directx fine (can even use DGA). it does not do direct3d (but i think the (commercial/kind-of-proprietry/interestingly-licensed) winex stuff might?). directsound works (at least i get sound out of directx games fine). directplay doesn't. with wine, its really a matter of whether someone with enough knowledge and persistance has tried your program before. there is so many win32 system calls (and other related system dlls), that the functions are implemented as needed. eg: total anhiliation and star craft run perfectly fine - i had to do a ~3 line patch to get heroes of might and magic 3 to run. the rule of thumb with wine compatibility is: just try it and see. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
