I agree, I would like to give them an option. I think JAMD is best for newbies. It's RH 9 with apt-get... You get the best of both worlds.
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 23:31, Mat Branyon wrote: > For academic purposes it is free indefinately. For Commercial purposes, > there is a trial period. I have a copy burnt (played around with it a > little bit). I am going to try to make it to the install fest, and if I > can, I will definately bring it. > > So Debian installs for the newbies? hmm... Why not something like > Redhat or the other more userfriendly distros? > > --mat > > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 21:56, John Hebert wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2003 15:45:35 -0500, Lt. Kernel individual > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm not at the level of guru yet, but I've sure installed enough Linux > > > Distros to help out at the install fest. Playing with new OS's is my > > > hobby, so I have a pretty good selection. Which ones do you think would > > > be good to offer at the install fest? Here's a list of what I have: > > > > > > FreeBSD > > > QNX > > > Gentoo (although I haven't installed it on a HD yet) > > > JAMD Linu (my favorite) > > > Mandrake 8.1 > > > Yellow Dog (for any mac users) > > > Bonzai (based on Debian) > > > NetBSD (both x86 and SPARC versions) > > > LNX-BBC (live cd for recovery or experienced users) > > > > I think we were planning to do Debian installs, although that's not carved > > in stone. > > > > Is QNX free?
