I suggest we (not that I'm going to be able to do much) consider
starting with the type of hardware that washes up on the beach. I am
playing with these PC SiS 530 MB / AMD K6/2 450 MHz combo's. I have 4
of these all-in-whatever systems: video, audio, PS2, USB, etc. There
must be a zillion of these floating around.
I could be a good test monkey: Ubuntu 5.1 doesn't load on these, but
maybe DSL will. Certainly it comes up as a Live CD. I am working on
getting Lilypond and Rosegarden, and/or Blender, working on these low
end systems. Now, if you had these programs working under DSL on a
cheap box, you could win over some Luddites. I know you have to hold
you nose when working with this "fine" equipment.
I would ask CRRC what they are getting a lot of and you might ask them
to consider a free pickup service for commercial entities. I am finding
way to much stuff in the trash!!! With todays R-G discussion of VISTA
system requirements there will be a lot more junk in the pile.
Mike Cherba wrote:
Bob,
when I said Distro, What I was really thinking was a DSL install setup
which has some customer graphice to put CRRC logos in and has some extra
packages preinstalled. The whole thing would be set up to be a
nobrainer to install. Not really a new distro. I guess I meant sort of
DSL+custom logo+some other extra stuff.
-Mike
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:55 -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
Ben Barrett wrote:
I really like the idea of helping CRRC with a custom distro and/or linux
training.
Training, yes, definitely.
Custom distro, I'm not convinced. How are we, in our spare time,
going to produce something better than the many groups who're already
doing this full time? How are we, in our spare time, going to provide
timely security patches 20 times a week like Debian, Redhat, Gentoo,
and the other majors do?
If CRRC had local customization needs -- a CRRC logo on the login
screen or Eugene Metro WiFi preconfigured or something, I'd
understand. But I'm not seeing it otherwise.
We can also add value by helping CRRC select from the 369
distributions available* or streamline the install process
with a local package cache.
* distrowatch.com -- active distributions, 6/6/2006
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