Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

(I'd have recommended making 9.1 Personal the simple default, installing one-on-one by CD, unless people requested full kits.)



Pros + cons. It will be faster. However, part of the benefit of Linux, and SuSE (and some other distros) is to get a complete workable desktop system with one installation. This includes office software, i.e. OO.

Yes, that needs to be in. But it can still be sourced after a 9.1 Personal install.

Depends what peoples' hardware is like. I run KDE + OO adequately on a
P3-450 512MB RAM, but installation would take 1h. That's mimum spec
IMHO. SuSE and/or Linux won't turn obsolete hardware into a flash
office machine.

No specs submitted as yet, so none have had to be rejected.

Re install network: what hardware do we need? Where from? (I could
bring some UTP, an 8port 100M switch and a power board).

I thought about this too post-post (;-) When you said harddrive install, did you mean opening each box to attach one temporarily? - Slow & guaranteed to introduce faults & more delays, if servicing a group, imho. Setting up a server (I thought you meant) is also unnecessary fuss, when everyone has a CD player (hopefully bootable) now. I just assumed you meant a networked harddrive, which we can easily make work, and a bottleneck.

Still, we'll follow your project lead for this occasion. Let's wait & see if any installs are requested, then supply efficiently.

Do we have a VGA projector for the demonstration part?

Zane helped us out last time. Anyone else equipped in that department?
What resolution will you require Volker?

What fine points of the demonstration are people expecting? Or shall I
just pick some?

That's precisely what we are expecting - the best bits, drawn from experience.

Volker

Rik

PS thanks Phil for the DVD offer - contact me offlist if you want to send one here.




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