On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:47, you wrote: > Wish I could attend. As I'd love to push Mandrake (A distro aimed at the > desktop in a Uni how strange!) But work awaits blast! > Any one else going please push for Mandrake or another "desktop" aimed > Distro (NOT lindows!). Indeed!! I've just had a very nasty experience with it. We replaced it with Mdk-9.1 ( .2 is not ready yet )
I'll be going to listen unless I'm actually asked to speak. Mandrake has the benefit of having a very easy install, but unfortunatly, imho, the QA on the distro as a whole is not up to scratch to replace M$ in a large institution. I'd probably suggest one of the commercially supported Debian descendents. Gentoo is not really ready for that sort of situation, because it is changing all the time. Wonderful for a geek to play with or a very small network in a closely controlled situation. Give them another year or so and it will be "the Linux of Choice". > Chad > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:46, you wrote: > > There seems to be enough interest to go ahead so > > I have booked A5 > > > > > > So that's A5 Fri 2pm 28 Nov (:-/) > > For a discussion of Linux Distribution support on campus. > > > > If you want to argue for a distro please come with the information > > required to support an *informed* debate. > > (you will be required to leave flame throwers at the door :-) > > > > Regards, > > Zane > > > > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 05:52, Zane Gilmore wrote: > > > Carrying on from an earlier discussion. > > > > > > It looks like we may need to have a discussion on what distributions we > > > want to maintain/support copies-of on campus. > > > > > > With what Redhat has done we will probably not want to buy their > > > support licences for everyone. > > > > > > Will Fedora be acceptable? > > > If not - what will replace it? > > > Do we want more distributions maintained? > > > If we do - which ones? > > > > > > So a meeting at 2pm on Friday 28 Dec. > > > Please reply off-list if you want to come so I can see whether it's > > > worth arranging a venue. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
