Meeting updates...

[Colin McGregor]

"Franco Saliola" <saliola-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:03 PM
wrote:

Hey, the new Debian should be out in time for the installfest!

Hopefully, yes, I remember when they were talking (fairly seriously) about a
September release date for Sarge. Now they are talking in terms of end of
May, lets hope. Then we can start swearing about how long Etch (which will
be the successor to Sarge) is taking to come out :-) .

Colin.

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On 5/4/05, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> "James Knott" <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:51 PM
>
> > Colin McGregor wrote:
> > > This is in follow-up to the Executive Working meeting last evening...
> > >
> > > One of the points that was emphasised at the meeting was (for legal
> reasons
> > > (i.e. avoid conflict with the Toledo Linux User Group)) that we away
> from
> > > TLUG to GTALUG (i.e. Greater Toronto Area Linux User Group).
> > >
> > > Spoke to the folks at Centennial College about doing an install fest
at
> > > Centennial and they are VERY interested. The idea being that we would
> > > announce a place/time where you could bring your PC and get help with
> doing
> > > a Linux install. I was asked if we wanted to do this in say September
> since
> > > things are fairly quiet right now, and my answer was that I would like
> to do
> > > an install fest at a quiet time so we could see where problems crop
up,
> this
> > > way come September we would be much better prepared to deal with
issues
> with
> > > a large group. In other words I was suggesting two Centennial install
> fests.
> > > I was told they are reworking their network and so will not be able to
> this
> > > before about the end of May. Still, Centennial is on board for GTALUG
> > > install fests starting in June.
> >
> > Are you planning on going to the internet for the install?  If not, how
> > much network do you need?
>
> There is a joke about how one of the fastest data transfer systems is a
> person on a bicycle with a knapsack filled with tapes, the only catch
being
> that latency is a @#$%. My take on this would be to have:
>
> - A server with a CD-ROM burner and ISO images of several popular
> distributions (i.e. Fedora, Debian, Suse, Slackware, etc., etc.). This way
> we can do a local network install and/or burn CD(s) on the spot as
required.
>
> - Just a stack of CD-ROMs with copies of several different distributions
> (and multiple copies of some of the most popular distributions).
>
> Regardless, we do NOT want several folks sucking down the full
distributions
> over the net. We do want the option of people being able to apply the
latest
> security patch(es) to their box(es) via the net... Likewise we want the
> option of being able to look up information about how to deal with bizarre
> hardware over the net.
>
> Colin.
>
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