Will, Thanks again for offering to help out with the Mepis install demonstration.
You mentioned something that piqued my interest; that your company is using Linux in real work such as diagnostics, etc. I'm thinking of writing an article about Linux use in the real business world, and small PC vendors and PC shops would be a good place to take its pulse. Anybody else have stories about how small PC or IT related companies are using Linux and/or free software to make themselves more competitive? If you don't want to post on the list, contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, John Hebert --- will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm one of the other dudes. When and where do you > want to get together? > > I've got another machine we can try out that's even > less impressive than your > own, a 333 MHz PII. I installed Mepis on it two > weeks ago. It's been my > primary desktop since and I've been taking notes. > The install was the > easiest I've ever done, but updating was a little > more trouble. I'd love to > try it out on your much nicer box and test both > computers with the AV system > at Clickers. > > I've got screen shots of lots of practical things > with Mepis, trying to > follow the minutes we made back in November. I'll > have them up before the > class. What I have right now is the quick and dirty > review here: > > http://ensim.3esolutions.com/~hillnotes.org/brlug/sig.html > > There's plenty of annotating to do, but you can see > what I've been doing with > it. I'd like it to be a set of notes for the nebies > to be able to reference > for a while. > > One thing I need to try out still is kpackage as an > updater. I torture > tested the distro itself by using a CD that was two > revisions out of date, 10 > instead of 10_2, but I did it with dselect. It was > not something a newbie > would want to do, and it appeared to not work the > first time. It grabbed up > 527 MB worth of updates, representing some 800 > improved packages! It took > about 10 tries of install to get all the dependency > problems out of the way > and for it to work, but it did indeed work. Try > swapping out 800 programs, > including Office out on a M$ box, tee-hee. It took > all afternoon and I'm > afraid this is what will happen to the average > newbie, who will probably wait > a while before hitting the upgrade. I'd like to see > how kpackage handles > this. > > Note to Mepis people - it might be good to make a > little GUI on first install > that gets permission and frequency for chron job > apt-get update and apt-get > upgrade and the same popup GUI. > > Mepis Rocks. I've been turning people onto it at > work, MSCEs and Microsoft > Partners. Microsoft floods them with "information" > on how to push their > software over Linux and other free software, but the > quality of Knoppix, > Mepis and other free software is earning a place in > their arsenal of > solutions for customers. They already like Knoppix > as diagnostic software, > the easy install of Mepis is just what many were > looking for. It's going to > give them a something to push back against Dell and > their difficult to beat > sofware bundles. In the end, these guys are working > for their customers and > themselves, not Microsoft. The buzz is out there. > I hope our little class > pushes it further on. > > > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 13:33, you wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:03 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Need someone to fill > in for me at > > nextNewbiesmeeting; broken leg > > > > Early and smoke tests are my motto when I am the > dude that has to be in > > front of everyone. I'll run through it over the > weekend as well. When you > > know who that other person is going to be, I would > suggest that he/she and > > I get together over the weekend and let him/her > take my machine just to > > guarantee that it gets there even if I don't. The > construction schedule for > > this substation calls for testing of all of the > protective relays starting > > on Monday, so I may get tagged. Yes, my test > machine is well suited for > > these kinds of things and it can be made available > at anytime for such. > > Since I installed a drive bay in my main machine > too, I seldom turn the > > test machine on anymore unless I am also doing > something on the main box > > and don't want to shut it down. Is the plan to > have everyone bring in their > > machines and actually do an "InstallFest" on the > users machines using > > Mepis, or were you planning on just showing how to > do it? Do you have any > > kind of a lesson plan for the meeti! ng? Were you > planning on showing how > > to use the second Mepis CD and using apt-get, > Synaptic, and/or Kpackage? > > If you can't get someone to back me up, I should > be 100% available the > > following Monday. We are scheduled to bring this > substation on line on > > Thursday, March 18th and bring the plant back up > the same day so, baring > > any unforeseen problems, I should be back to my > regular schedule the > > following week. > > > > Ed Richards > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== John Hebert Official BRLUG Linux Curmudgeon Open Source Ankle Biter __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
