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

[David Mayerlen]

 Buy her a Mac. Only half joking. One must recognize that OSX is not Linux
but shares the same wonderful base of software from the "free software
world". Apple's next big move should be to distribute a Linux ... but I
guess they are really an MP3 player company now.

 Knoppix is great but doesn't always work ... at least I can't get it to
work on the two machines I have tried it on. One is a lovely IBM Thinkpad
and I just haven't had a spare couple of days to debug it. Can't wait
until I do get it working however. I'm very jealous of my friends that
have it working...

 What I'm really saying is test out the Knoppix on the computer. Try
living with it yourself for a bit.

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Jim Ruxton 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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