On Fri 22 Feb 2008 15:59:44 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Would the community be able to give approval to spend approx $40 for
the retail purchase of a suitable USB card from DSE Ltd.?
Some such action would be truely needed. USB 1.1 is about useless.
USB PCI cards can be had for $20
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Sorry, forgot to mention that the room is open on Saturday afternoon,
but I will not be there.
I guess I will try it tomorrow then and see how many dvd's I can burn :-)
Should I leave images of the stuff below somewhere?
Cheers,
Raffael
On 2/22/08, Christopher
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Sorry, forgot to mention that the room is open on Saturday afternoon,
but I will not be there.
I guess I will try it tomorrow then and see how many dvd's I can burn :-)
Please note that Afternoon is defined as between
On Fri, February 22, 2008 11:43 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Sorry, forgot to mention that the room is open on Saturday afternoon,
but I will not be there.
I guess I will try it tomorrow then and see how many dvd's
Thanks so much!
On 2/23/08, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, February 22, 2008 11:43 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Sorry, forgot to mention that the room is open on Saturday afternoon,
but I will not be
Hey there,
I was wondering how much gigs all the Linux distros in the archive take
up. Just round about...
On the 26th/27th there are the clubs days at the university of
canterbury and we are starting a Free Culture Club.
It would be great if we could offer a freedom toaster, so that people
Hello clug,
I received a 100gig HD with a firewire interface. Does Forfar listen to
that? Otherwise mini USB (to USB) might work, but I don't have a
suitable cable.
I also have:
OpenDisc 7.10 (www.theopendisc.com)
Project Gutenberg Best 600 Books (August 2003 Collection)
Project Gutenberg Science
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello clug,
I received a 100gig HD with a firewire interface. Does Forfar listen to
that?
The Archive is on the machine known as Caledonian which runs Linux.
It's not exactly a speed-hog at the best of times achieving approx 3
Mb/Sec at most when
I've got a spare firewire pci card. I'm sure I found one when I was looking for
an USB card ( only got those that need a header on the mobo ).
As an alternative to DSE, what's the spec of the mobo? Maybe I've got a newer
spare...
Steve
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:59:44 +1300
Christopher Sawtell
Well,
at some point I would like to get a hold of the/some distros. So that we
can give them away on Tuesday/Wednesday at Uni. Do you think we can work
something out? I also have another external HD case, or I could try to
get the HD out of the case...
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 2/22/08,
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I also have:
OpenDisc 7.10 (www.theopendisc.com)
We would be very interested in this one.
I'll make a copy or two and pass them to Raffael.
It's actually an extended version for Linux.conf.au
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well,
at some point I would like to get a hold of the/some distros. So that we
can give them away on Tuesday/Wednesday at Uni. Do you think we can work
something out? I also have another external HD case, or I could try to
get the HD out of the
Sorry, forgot to mention that the room is open on Saturday afternoon,
but I will not be there.
On 2/22/08, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well,
at some point I would like to get a hold of the/some distros. So that we
can give them
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Many, many thanks to the generous person ( Roger? ) for the Knoppix
DVD which arrived in my letter box yesterday.
Yep - I'm fortunate at work to have a plan where if I download more
than 2GB in a day, the next day throttles back to 64kbps, so starting
something
Not that I can think of just off the top of my head, but I will most
definitely keep your generous offer in mind. There are bound to be new
releases which we should put into the archive.
Thanks again.
On 12/20/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Many, many
Many, many thanks to the generous person ( Roger? ) for the Knoppix
DVD which arrived in my letter box yesterday.
Re: the USB-2 card.
I'd very much like to get this set up before the February meeting,
which is something of an 'Outreach Occasion'. I'd like us to be able
to send new members home
Haven't tried this, but it looks like an interesting project.
Damn Vulnerable Linux - The most vulnerable and exploitable operating
system ever.
https://www.damnvulnerablelinux.org/
I have a DVD burnt - md5sum of the downloaded file checked - I'll
endeavour to deliver to St. Albans just as soon as an opportunity
presents itself. I'm uncertain if I can attend the quiz night tomorrow.
Cheers
Roger
Roger Searle wrote:
ok - perhaps i can offer to get the knoppix dvd -
It has gone through my mind to suggest that we should buy a USB-2.x one.
I bought one for myself from DSE a few seeks ago, it cost me $39.98.
$25 at tastech.co.nz, $2.50 (I think) shipping or pickup
I'll donate one if one isn't found otherwise. For any practical purpose
involving storage USB 1
$15 iirc from CDL, but I've gone a perfectly good on here.
I'll try and sort it out over the weekend :)
Cheers Don
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
It has gone through my mind to suggest that we should buy a USB-2.x one.
I bought one for myself from DSE a few seeks ago, it cost me $39.98.
$25 at
Today, I have added:-
49524736 ipcop-1.4.18-install-cd.i386.iso
4530497536 SabayonLinux-x86-3.4f.iso
To the archive on the machine called 'caledonean' at the St. Albans
Neighbourhood Centre.
We also have most of the Ubuntu-7.10 distros. See the listing URL
below for full details.
We would
Am happy to get the CentOS ISOs over the next week or so, I should be
able to deliver them to the Centre Tuesday next week.
Is there the facility to bring down an external hard drive and hook up
to a USB port?
Cheers,
Roger
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Today, I have added:-
49524736
I need the 32/64 bit CentOS 5.1 isos, so I'll get them downloaded over the
weekend.
Steve
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:35:33 +1300
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today, I have added:-
49524736 ipcop-1.4.18-install-cd.i386.iso
4530497536 SabayonLinux-x86-3.4f.iso
To the
ok - perhaps i can offer to get the knoppix dvd - unless anyone else
already has it i can start that tonight?
Roger
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I need the 32/64 bit CentOS 5.1 isos, so I'll get them downloaded over the
weekend.
Steve
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:35:33 +1300
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL
On 12/5/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am happy to get the CentOS ISOs over the next week or so, I should be
able to deliver them to the Centre Tuesday next week.
Thank you so much. Remember that there is no meeting in the Centre,
because we are going to the pub to start off the
I've certainly got a firewire card, and I *think* I've got an usb card lying
around. Any use??
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:07:38 +1300
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/5/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am happy to get the CentOS ISOs over the next week or so, I should
The USB one would be very useful. Many thanks.
I dont think firewire is anything like as common as USB-2.x.
So I'm not sure as to the usefullness of firewire.
On 12/5/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've certainly got a firewire card, and I *think* I've got an usb card lying
around.
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:07, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
It has gone through my mind to suggest that we should buy a USB-2.x one.
I bought one for myself from DSE a few seeks ago, it cost me $39.98.
I have been reminded that people who have wholesaler accounts can get
things cheaper.
Volunteer?
On Wed, December 5, 2007 11:33 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
The USB one would be very useful. Many thanks.
I dont think firewire is anything like as common as USB-2.x.
So I'm not sure as to the usefullness of firewire.
Its way better for sustained throughput than USB2, but not as common on
Not sure why this has gone offlist so I'll post my reply back to the list..
Yes but the point is most open source developers don't need a winmodem so
why would they get involved in development for them?
People develop what interests them or what their employers/sponsors pay
them to develop. As
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:41 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
Not sure why this has gone offlist so I'll post my reply back to the list..
Yes but the point is most open source developers don't need a winmodem so
why would they get involved in development for them?
People develop what interests them
Please could you remove your Reply-To: line when posting to the list
because, by default, it stops messages in reply to you going to the
list.
On 11/30/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:41 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
Not sure why this has gone offlist so I'll post my
Laptops will have to have modems in them until wifi / adsl / cable
internet connections are as ubiquitous as the dear old POTS.
On 11/30/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How much longer are we going to see new laptops produced with modems in
them?
I don't think it's worth a programers
How much longer are we going to see new laptops produced with modems in
them?
I don't think it's worth a programers time to make a modem work.
I think focus should be on getting broadband available and affordable.
Cheers Don
Chris wrote:
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 13:41 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
When all you have is an Ethernet port, everything looks like a broadband
connection
Except that a phone circuit doesn't. And despite your desire for
broadband being available and affordable it both isn't and isn't. Phone
lines, on the other hand, are ubiquitous.
It is quite possible that
Isn't it a lovely world, from England to NZ
thank you Andrew you have my point.
By the way, and I hope not too far off topic.
The XP partition on the same lappy, does bork at the use of a USB modem
running through the usb to serial interface.
It can be configured to use that modem, but despite
Hi Christopher,
I notice you mention winmodems in this post.
Have you had any sucess with these?
In a moment of madness i tried a Linuxant driver, which continually
failed. There Techs fianlly admited that there are modulation issues
with the linuxant drivers, with the result that i am using a
--
Sent from my T-Mobile Sidekick®
I added PC-BSD-1.4.1 yesterday.
This is the simplest install ever!
_BUT_ FreeBSD and descendants, of which PC-BSD is one, have the
disadvantage that there is no native FlashPlayer-9 for them, and
Google says that Adobe seems to be completely mute on the subject.
Somebody is reported to have
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I added PC-BSD-1.4.1 yesterday.
This is the simplest install ever!
_BUT_ FreeBSD and descendants, of which PC-BSD is one, have the
disadvantage that there is no native FlashPlayer-9 for them, and
Google says that Adobe seems to be completely mute on the subject.
is one of the reasons I run
it on my bittorrent machine. Certain sites insist on the latest stable
rtorrent, and freebsd was the only distro I could find that tracked it
well enough.
Hi
Flash is an issue for BSD. For PC-BSD, there are a number of install
files for various versions of Firefox that get around this. Firefox and
Flash 9 under Linux emulation and Firefox and Flash 9 for windows preset
up under wine (ugly interface but). For the rest, yep, ports and
packages
On Nov 21, 2007 1:37 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a small charge for the cost of the media.
How much is this *small *charge??
Is that for DVD's and/or CD's if need be, or is this a different charge?
David Linton
The Linux archive is a non-commercial joint exercise by the St Albans
Neighbourhood Resouce Centre and the CLUG. The cutting of the disks
and the charging for them is done by the St Albans Neighbourhood
Resouce Centre side, I'm sorry but I don't know exactly what they
charge. I believe it's a
Greets folks.
Please find attached the file listing of the Linux/Unix archive.
The archive is now ready for customers.
I would be very grateful if some kind soul could lend us a Knoppix DVD.
I lent it to somebody and it has never been returned.
Best times to get files is Tuesday and Saturday
On Nov 21, 2007 1:37 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please find attached the file listing of the Linux/Unix archive.
Is An-Inconvenient-Truth-2006-DVD-rip.divx.avi released under a
license that allows redistribution in this form?
I do not know. Thanks for noticing that. I'll remove it.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 13:37, you wrote:
Greets folks.
Please find attached the file listing of the Linux/Unix archive.
The archive is now ready for customers.
I would be very grateful if some kind soul could lend us a Knoppix DVD.
I lent it to somebody and it has never been
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Carter wrote:
What is needed is a If you have this situation, use one of these guide.
Absolutely correct.
So what are the situations?
Old / low spec box to act as...
* thin client.
* router / firewall
Secure distro
John Carter wrote:
Any other ideas?
Hacker tool distro
as...
* thin client.
* router / firewall
Secure distro to act as webserver. (At this point someone will start
muttering about little red daemonsbring it on!)
Dark room server distro.
Embedded distros.
Kiddies toy box.
LiveCD's (Knoppix mempis...)
Programmer's Dream distro
.
Absolutely correct.
So what are the situations?
Old / low spec box to act as...
* thin client.
* router / firewall
Secure distro to act as webserver. (At this point someone will start
muttering about little red daemonsbring it on!)
Dark room server distro
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:42:51 +1200
Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could use a few scientific distros. I'm wondering what it would take to
get
some moderately well-heeled individual to finance a PS2 or PS3 Beowulf,
Sorry, finger slipped. I've got a PS1. can we start with
Some recent posts have prompted me to ask should we have a distro war?
I am sure that many of us are unaware of the pros and cons of other
distros and wondered if we should dedicate some time to showing off our
favourite distros at CLUG meetings.
A couple of thoughts come to mind.
We could
On 8/23/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some recent posts have prompted me to ask should we have a distro war?
I am sure that many of us are unaware of the pros and cons of other
distros and wondered if we should dedicate some time to showing off our
favourite distros at CLUG
On 23/08/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What say others?
There's little point in having a distro war when ubuntu is clearly the best :-)
Cheers,
Carl.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:52:11 +1200
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/23/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some recent posts have prompted me to ask should we have a distro war?
I am sure that many of us are unaware of the pros and cons of other
distros
Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:52:11 +1200
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/23/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some recent posts have prompted me to ask should we have a distro war?
I am sure that many of us are unaware of the pros and cons
On 8/23/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:52:11 +1200
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/23/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some recent posts have prompted me to ask should we have a distro war?
I am sure that many of us
Have you got a LiveCD to hand?
Well that could be another idea - a grunty PC and Live CD's.
I have Mepis 6.5 and 7Beta1 and Sabayon
A distro war will not achieve anything, a demo of distro specific
functions may.
Maybe distro war was a bad choice of phrase but I do agree with what
Barry and Steve have said, that is, the interesting bits will be the
differences not the similarities.
For example, I might show off Mepis
Time would probably solve my problems with Ubuntu, but 1st impressions
affect subsequent choices for all of us.
Which is why I proposed the idea.
We recently had quite a long thread about sharing folders using Samba.
I my current distro of choice, immediately after a default installation
Being a Greenie..
One must answer 'No [more wars]!' to
Distro war - should we have one?
That said, accommodation is prepared - 30x P4-2.6GHz/512MB for LiveCD
demos - and a post-Cathedral, Bazaar-like format envisaged (ESR), for
this year's Software Freedom Day: 15-16 Sept in South Chch
That is, if we can all agree to live and let live - every distro
available to us. Let this be an exercise in cooperation, where each distro
/ *nix advocate can be given equal chance to shine - and to back
each other up - in our collective work.
Hear hear! I am grateful that I have a choice
using Samba.
I my current distro of choice, immediately after a default installation,
without any extra packages being downloaded or installed and no config
files being edited, one can right click on a folder, follow one's nose and
share the folder. That would possibly be a typical comparison we
On Thu, August 23, 2007 2:00 pm, Andrew Errington wrote:
That is, if we can all agree to live and let live - every distro
available to us. Let this be an exercise in cooperation, where each
distro
/ *nix advocate can be given equal chance to shine - and to back
each other up - in our
On Thu, August 23, 2007 3:15 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
snip
I think there's also a philosophical question here as well, especially
with your example. My feeling is that samba = sharing = more than one
person accessing the information = you should invest time into
Steve Holdoway wrote:
snip
I think there's also a philosophical question here as well, especially with
your example. My feeling is that samba = sharing = more than one person
accessing the information = you should invest time into understanding exactly
what you're doing because you're not the
A distro war like all wars is totally pointless. It just creates misery,
chaos and confusion. Surely choosing an operating system comes down to
deciding what you want to do and then deciding what is the best tool to
accomplish what you want to do given your resources and abilities. I
chose Open
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Robert Fisher wrote:
We could have a standard list of topics/questions to apply to each distro.
http://distrowatch.com/ has the answers to that.
In a sense a distro war isn't what you need.
For example, I certainly would _not_ recommend Ubuntu to someone at
the end
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Carter wrote:
What is needed is a If you have this situation, use one of these guide.
Absolutely correct.
So what are the situations?
good/bad network access
plays all media types - mp3, wmv, avi, etc (out of the box)
graphics acceleration(out of the box)
Robert Fisher wrote:
I have a friend who has just installed Mepis 6.5 on his main computer (dual
boot with Windows)
He has an old box which he would like to use as a file server and we wondered
what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron 750 with
128Mb ram.
I thought
On Sunday 22 April 2007 8:09 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
He has an old box which he would like to use as a file server and we
wondered what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron
750 with 128Mb ram.
ubuntu server.
Thanks - downloading now
On Sun 22 Apr 2007 19:48:01 NZST +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
He has an old box which he would like to use as a file server and we wondered
what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron 750 with
128Mb ram.
I have exactly the same hardware and run openSUSE 10.2 on that quite
he would like to use as a file server and we wondered
what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron 750 with
128Mb ram.
I thought about Gentoo but it might take a while with those low specs.
Rob
Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a friend who has just installed Mepis 6.5 on his main computer
(dual
boot with Windows)
He has an old box which he would like to use as a file server and we
wondered
what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron 750 with
128Mb ram
On Sunday 22 April 2007 9:26 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
To get the similarity bonus, perhaps your friend should try Mepis on the
Duron?
I initially tried that but it would not install without more Ram.
Rob
On Sunday 22 April 2007 10:50 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote:
If all he wants is a file server, then freenas is worth a look.
http://www.freenas.org
Thanks. I think we will give that a try too.
to set up a more serverish
distro. I think it good that a server should be happy to run without a GUI,
something Mepis didn't wanna do. Also, Mepis 3.4 was too demanding for my
POS, and mepis 6.0 is even more so.
I ended up installing debian-etch on a separate box that arrived at about
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:48:01 Robert Fisher wrote:
I have a friend who has just installed Mepis 6.5 on his main computer (dual
boot with Windows)
He has an old box which he would like to use as a file server and we
wondered what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron
what recommendations people might have for a Distro for a Duron
750 with 128Mb ram.
I thought about Gentoo but it might take a while with those low specs.
Three points,
Servers usually don't have a graphical environment to build, so no X-11 or
KDE/GNOME/etc to compile.
I'm sure you know
On Tue 17 Apr 2007 09:17:45 NZST +1200, Mike Pearce wrote:
Options please - No Distro wars!
Would like to hear from those that have it up and running
and pros and cons etc.
My requirements are simple.
KDE + Kontact + Firefox
I've had zero 64bit-related trouble with openSUSE for over
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 09:17, Mike Pearce wrote:
Options please - No Distro wars!
Would like to hear from those that have it up and running
and pros and cons etc.
My requirements are simple.
KDE + Kontact + Firefox
I have be running Debian on my AMD64 box for the last year and a half
Mike Pearce wrote:
Options please - No Distro wars!
Would like to hear from those that have it up and running
and pros and cons etc.
My requirements are simple.
KDE + Kontact + Firefox
This is basically my email/web browsing machine
Must be able to pull my full Kmail mailboxes and all
On Wed, April 18, 2007 6:27 am, Roger Searle wrote:
I'll be seriously considering (if I
reinstall) a 32bit installation if flash is still unsupported in 64bit.
There are plenty of websites that are pointless without it. It is a
shame that my decision about 32/64 bit is based on this. Time
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Tue 17 Apr 2007 09:17:45 NZST +1200, Mike Pearce wrote:
Options please - No Distro wars!
Would like to hear from those that have it up and running
and pros and cons etc.
..although the KDE prominance has been reduced for
Novell-political reasons. The next
Options please - No Distro wars!
Would like to hear from those that have it up and running
and pros and cons etc.
My requirements are simple.
KDE + Kontact + Firefox
This is basically my email/web browsing machine
Must be able to pull my full Kmail mailboxes and all other
settings from
at
installing a 32 bit os instead.
Steve.
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:17:45 +1200
Mike Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Options please - No Distro wars!
Would like to hear from those that have it up and running
and pros and cons etc.
My requirements are simple.
KDE + Kontact + Firefox
Mike Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Options please - No Distro wars!
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Steve Holdoway wrote:
If you're not needing the extra memory access capabilities, I'd still look at
installing a 32 bit os instead.
I tend to agree.
The reason is best explained with two
Christopher D Maher wrote:
What is the best distro for an introduction to Linux? All I want to
do is be able to play and have something that doesn't use much
hardware ie no big graphical requirements (though I do want a GUI) and
something very very light on ram.
CM.
My recommendation
Christopher D Maher wrote:
What is the best distro for an introduction to Linux? All I want to
do is be able to play and have something that doesn't use much
hardware ie no big graphical requirements (though I do want a GUI) and
something very very light on ram.
CM.
This is a list
Extreamly useful!
I'm printing it out, do you mind if I publish it in a few places?
Cheers Don
Stephen Irons wrote:
Christopher D Maher wrote:
What is the best distro for an introduction to Linux? All I want to
do is be able to play and have something that doesn't use much
hardware ie
Don Gould wrote:
Extreamly useful!
I'm printing it out, do you mind if I publish it in a few places?
Cheers Don
You can use it in part or whole, but please attribute it to Stephen
Irons, not to Tait Electronics; they are my opinions.
And you could remove the guff below; it gets added
Hi Don,
You forgot drm
Maurice - who has be trapped by lookout oops, outlook and delphi
Do you wish to play movies and music that you have purchased on your
computer?
Vista - no if billy thinks you have stolen it or you use a program that
someone may be able to make a copy
Linux - tba
Do you
Don Gould wrote:
Chris, do you want to add this to the list of topics people would be
interested in hearing about?
Anyone on list actually using it?
Cheers Don
Hey,
I've been lurking on the list for some time, it's the highest-output LUG
list in NZ I've been subscribed to so far.
I used
What is the best distro for an introduction to Linux? All I want to
do is be able to play and have something that doesn't use much
hardware ie no big graphical requirements (though I do want a GUI) and
something very very light on ram.
CM.
On 05/03/07, Derek Smithies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007, Christopher D Maher wrote:
What is the best distro for an introduction to Linux? All I want to
do is be able to play and have something that doesn't use much
hardware ie no big graphical requirements (though I do want a GUI) and
something very very light on ram.
http
On Friday 09 March 2007 11:06 pm, Christopher D Maher wrote:
What is the best distro for an introduction to Linux? All I want to
do is be able to play and have something that doesn't use much
hardware ie no big graphical requirements (though I do want a GUI) and
something very very light
I'm making some progress.
Below are details of my progress for those who are interested.
I am not presenting any questions. If you choose to share your own
trials and tribulations please do, but don't feel that I'm waiting on
help, I'm not, I still have more work I need to do first, such as
Kerry Mayes wrote:
Now I just need it to
find something interesting to do!
That was my point with the what is the endgame? question :-)
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