Nick Rout wrote: > What distros are we going to promote? > > Are we going to have a selection of burned cdroms, or do it on demand > while people wait? > > Are we going to use the official download cd's for a particular distro, > or patch the cd's with the latest updates? for example redhat 7.3 > already has a number of updates which are security based. > > We don't really want to send people away with known security holes do > we.... > > Nick > >
Security will be an issue if anyone wants a firewall or server box, but for home machines I wouldn't worry too much. I think we should have mandrake, as it's good for beginners, and redhat because if any students come they'll probably want that (it's in the labs at uni) - and also it's the most well known, so some people will tend to want it because they've heard of it. I will bring a debian potato CD, in case anyone wants it, but I won't be trying to push it for inexperienced users. Other than that... well it depends what people will bring I guess. If you can bring a different distro, let me know (and write a bit about it if ya like) and I'll add it to the distro page. [I'll be away for a couple days though, so you might not hear back from me until the 13th or so...] Cheers, Gareth.
