I still like DSL, it is one of few opportunities that you can say d*** legitimately, that alone is worth 25M.
bogi wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
