So , Mandriva 2008.1 is officially out, and the torrents are starting to pick up steam. The way it works for me, is i join the club, the Mandriva club, that is a free account, and register as an early seeder. There are about 150 or so of us, who would get an e-mail notification with access information to the torrents of the free and the powerpack a few days (3-5) before the official release, this would allow us to pick the torrents up, and seed them, and be ready when the initial deluge happens :-) Now for the powerpack, you would have to pay, and it is a separate access, but the idea is the same. The powerpack has a set of commercial applications, including a CAD program (just caught my eye) and other goddies bundled, and you do get 2 releases in a year, so by joining the club, you basically get a good 50% off the commercial product. I can demo both the free and the powerpack Mandriva variants, provided i can get a reasonably fast rig. My test rig is a 550 Mhz P3 and it takes too long to install on that one ...
The other distro i was talking about was silTaz, a mini distro. http://www.slitaz.org/en/ As far as i can say, this is the smallest linux i have seen. Yet the functionality and the package management does not reflect that, with full online repositories and very comperhensive set of packages. All compiled to be small in size... Here is a release blurb from their website: " 22 Mar 2008 - SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 release The SliTaz contributors team are proud to announce the publication of SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0. This is the first stable release after 2 years of hard work. The system is distributed as a bootable LiveCD of 24.8 MB providing a fully featured desktop environment and a generous selection of multi-use applications. SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 uses the Linux Kernel 2.6.24.2, providing Firefox 2.0.0.12, Rsync 3.0.0, Gparted 0.3.5 and sound support with Alsa 1.0.16. The distribution lets you listen to music, surf the Web, edit a video studio and much more with the 448 available packages that can be easily installed with our own package manager Tazpkg. The LiveCD lets you create a custom distro or a LiveUSB device in one single command. Security updates are provided by the project and popular packages like Firefox will also get upgraded for functionality. You can get SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 from the Web site download page. Read the Release Notes for more detailed information on this stable version." So you see, after 2 years of good work, they released 1.0 on March this year. And i can say, it is great work, with the iso at 24 Megs , it is about half the size of DSL, and dsl is not even close to the flexibility of silTaz. Cheers Szemir Ps.: Both Fedora and Ubuntu are expected to release before the end of this month, so , given the availability of new releases at this time, we can even do a series of 2-3 presentations demoing the new Linux distributions ... pPs.: Yesterday i have received 2 computers and a monitor from an ex employer, they are both p3 computer at 550 and 430 Mhz respectively, and reasonable amount of ram in both. Good HDD and reasonable graphics adapters. I am in the process of cleaning them up. So the elderly housing project can have a starting point somewhere. We will need about 18 computers (with monitors + kbd + mouse) + the networking stuff to get the baby off the ground. The meeting was brought foreword, that is why i did not mention it. We will have to schedule a special meeting regarding this subject when we have some guidelines and designated resources to do the project. On April 8, 2008 17:05, Cameron wrote: > bogi wrote: > > The release date is the tenth, i have all the images at the moment on > > torrent, when it is released, everyone will have a well seeded torrent > > set to go with, but needless to say, if anyone is intrested in a copy, i > > will burn one .. The repositories are not active yet, But the Mandriva > > looks and feels awesome, with lots of new stuff under the skin, like > > pulse audio , new packages, new php new apache, new kernel , i could go > > on, but you get the idea. There is also a new app to handle the legacy > > plugins for old multimedia playback from Fluendo ... > > Lat night the install wend smoothly on an old test rig ... and worked > > without any visible errors or bugs. > > Good to hear! Send me any of the appropriate information for the > torrent feed & I will post them to the site. > > Also, maybe you could do a review of the new mandriva & we can add that > to the CLUG site as well...something sort of along the lines of what you > see in Linux Format or similar. And seeing as you mentioned multimedia, > one of the presentations we want to do is on multimedia (ripping, > etc....I can provide you more details off-list). WOuld you be willing > to take up that challenge..time provided? You could of course use your > distro of choice...LOL > > Hmm I wonder what that one would be? > > And lastly, I would love to hear more about that seniors home projects > you were mentioing the other day. If you can get me some details > tonight I can include it in teh agenda for the exec meeting tomorrow. > If we can get someone out to that meeting, we can see what level of > involvement we might be able to get. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
