comments and suggestions invited on this .. and you can expand the scope too .. giving out distros .. ummm .. dunno whether we can do that .. its a huge job .. but, as discussed at the last meeting .. it could be for the lucky draw winners .. 1 out of 20 or 50 or 100 visitors could be given a distro .. just thinking out aloud ..
..pk ----- Original Message ----- From: Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 2:11 AM Subject: [ilug-cal] a neat giveaway idea > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was just wondering - are there any plans to give away distro CD's at any of > the xhibitions? If so, why not include Knoppix - the main piont being that a > person can just boot of a Knoppix cd and have a fully functional Linux > system - with nothing installed to the harddrive. Its a painless way for a > user to try out the Linux experience. > > I tried it and it autodetected all my hardware (though I have pretty much > standard stuff), ran Mozilla & Gimp pretty well for a 'run from CD' app. > > Using this CD (and mentioning its main selling point) would let a lot more > people play with Linux than if only distro CD's were given out > > - -- > - ------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> > GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE > - ------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > Brain fried -- Core dumped > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9xDh9G7nmNJuHVu4RApzwAJ0XT+8dOT1uSCCxbnjI6HPmXIhyMQCg5fUj > /ZZ7xCRrWIz+3wJndNUxgW0= > =e9qP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
