[TLUG-ANNOUNCE]: TLUG - Tue Dec 14, 7:30pm

[Colin McGregor]

Knoppix's great strength is in temporary/short term solutions to problems.
Yes, Knoppix does support saving information to USB memory keys, and/or hard
drives, but not without a (little) bit of jumping through hoops. My
inclination would be in a case like yours to go with a more conventional
install, be it Fedora, Debian, Suse, or ..... then for updates just use the
conventional package management tools (read the likes of apt-get can be your
friend...).

Colin McGregor

"Jim Ruxton" <cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> on Monday, December 13, 2004 11:58 PM
wrote:

> I'd love to see this but will be out of town. It brings up something I've
> been thinking of however. I'm getting my Mom a computer finally and was
> wondering what to put on it. I don't want her to have to deal with
viruses,
> Windose etc. so was thinking of just loading the machine with a Knoppix
CD.
> Does this make sense versus putting a full Linux install on the harddrive?
I
> assume there is a way she could save her email and weblinks to a hard
drive.
> This way whenever I see her I could just bring the latest Knoppix CD.
> Any advice?
> Jim
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> From: "Drew Sullivan" <drew-ccvjzJVizCz5OPYHOmv4JA at public.gmane.org>
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> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:19 PM
> Subject: [TLUG-ANNOUNCE]: TLUG - Tue Dec 14, 7:30pm
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>
> > Date:    Dec 14, 2004
> > Time: 7:30pm
> > Speaker: Colin McGregor
> > Topic:   The Temporary Internet Lounge
> >
> > Details:
> > Colin McGregor will talk about the issues associated with setting
> > up a temporary Internet lounge using Knoppix Linux. A central part
> > of this talk will be customising Knoppix to fit the needs of such
> > a lounge. This talk will be illustrated with examples drawn from
> > Colin McGregor's experiences successfully setting up such a lounge
> > of 28 machines at the 2003 World Science Fiction Convention. The
> > basis of this talk will be an article he wrote for Linux Journal
> > (which is due to appear in the February 2005 issue (and which
> > should be on newstands starting the first week of January)).
> >
> > Colin McGregor is a system administrator with over 5 years experience
> > in a number of commercial and not-for-profit ISPs.
> >
> >
> > For directions, see http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/
> >
> > Location:  Galbraith Building, U of T
> > Room:      GB244
> >
> > Please note, we are back in our old room.
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