Sometime in June, we'll install them likely. It's still a way away.
I think the intervening period until then is good for more planning, demonstration
planning and setup, and other things. Larry said he was working on a demoday mailing
list so we can focus more on planning without filling up peoples' mailboxes who don't
want to be so involved. ;) I know I've got some systems I want to finish setting up
to bring. This may take some time yet.
This saturday perhaps those of us that show up at the seminar at commsource can
discuss breifly some demoday issues and progress. Things such as advertising,
infrastructure, coordinators/coordination, mailing list, fliers, demos(computers),
demos(speakers), topics, focus and/or target audience for the demoday [ideally this is
decided prior to advertising]
ie A demoday theme such as:
installfest oriented,
'linux is better than butter and can be used on more things',
power of unix in general,
integrate linux into your corporate network [either with or without superiors'
knowledge; read: samba, firewall, nids, email filter, dns, dhcp, and the sysadmin's
computer..],
or the Awe technique ['What can you do with linux?' Everything, because we are doing
it with every system here: games, ${all things listed above}, desktop-user stuff,
penetration testing, scientific applications...] (If you haven't guessed already, I
vote for something like this. What better way to open someone's eyes than all the
way? And what better way to get the whole Lug involved? I may know somethings about
networking, someone else knows some things about gaming, others know about scientific
applications. Coming together to polish off linux and make it shine! How many people
view linux as something symbolized as 'C:\>'? , or even worse '#' ? (remember the
first time you saw these two prompts, and tried to command them, or even understand
them) I think it's important to show people a finished product, [ie a fully
configured gaming system] for something inspiring to work towards. Otherwise they may
become discouraged: 'that free operating system is free for a r!
eason...' No, it's not free because it doesn't work. It does work, and here's the
pudding of our proof!)
...Just to name a few topics of discussion off the top of my head. ;)
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:43:29PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:45:13PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> > Anyone need practice installing linux?
> >
> > We'll have a cram-install fest, setting up a bunch of machines at once probably a
>week before the show. If not, I'm fine doing it myself. But if someone would like
>the practice, let me know.
> >
>
> I find some joy in installing open source OSes. When and where?
>
> > > Now. I'm having trouble finding 4 to 6 gig drives for these dual boot machines.
> (They just don't make 'em that small anymore)
> > >
>
> I got a new (er, unused, it had 1996 as the build date) 1.2G from Stan a
> couple months back for a pretty fair price. Did you check the Goodwill
> on Coburg Rd. They have a fair selection of /junk/. a 1G /usr should
> hold more than enough software ... do you really need 4-6G? To me, one
> of the cooler aspects of linux is that it will run, and run well,
> on /junk/. I recently installed Debian unstable with ReiserFS on a
> 486dx laptop. It fsckin' rocks, and is actually quite stable. It even
> built it's own 2.4.3 kernel :)
>
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