Whoops my kmail client was playing up last night have made some errata or added some missing text.
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 22:36, Zane Gilmore wrote: > I believe that Mahesh DaSilva was going to bring in all of his distro > collection. From what he's said it appears that he collects distros like > stamps :-) > > He has volunteered to bring in copies. > However, we can hopefully get an idea of what CDs we will need to burn by the > registrations that we will get from the web-site. > > > It seems that Mandrake and Redhat will probably be the Distros of choice. > I know that whoever I help will probably get Redhat for no other reason than > because that's the one I know the best and I therefore feel most comfortable > helping people with what I know. > > I know that there are a lot of "distro zealots" here and probably even some on > the installfest group so let's just give those people the distros we feel > most comfortable with. However this means that if you decide to help we > should probably make sure that your distro has enough copies burnt. > > If you want to edit the distros so that they have the security patches already added then this is possible but... > This sounds like a nightmare to me but if someone wants to... be my guest :-) > > Zane > > > On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:30, gjw49 wrote: > > 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. > -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 Fax 3642222
