On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:06 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: > > > The first was incredibly successful > > > The third, which was run just a few weeks ago, was apparently > > a raging success as well > > I was at one and three. Both were great. The third one, held a few > weekends ago, was the best install fest I've ever been part of. Ashley > and SCLUG [1] are doing great things down there.
NULL pointer dereferencing footnote. Core dumped. > While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been > a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think > about. The thing about the SCLUG installfests is that they are very, very targeted -- everybody gets the same installation (no "hey, what random distribution do you want on your machine?") for a specific purpose (providing a lab-equivalent install). Quite interesting to examine the different purpose and hence the different outcomes that seem to result. > -- > "We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans" > -- John Howard, telling fibs on September 27th, 2002 He wasn't telling fibs -- he doesn't click his heels. - Matt -- "All I care about [a linux distro] is it detect my hardware (non-Debian strengths), and teach me to fish instead of just giving me a smelly old fish (most people 'xcept Debian), and I guess don't just give me a fish biology textbook (gentoo)." -- Tom (in d-devel) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
