Linux World Canada Show, April 24-26, 2006

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Colin McGregor wrote:
> Ok, so the one item that seemed to strike a nerve on
> this list was giving away CDs at the Linux World
> Canada Show. With that in mind I will draft a
> "request" e-mail to send to various commercial
> distributions this weekend, with the following
> questions to be answered next:
> 
> - How many CDs should I be asking for, of what type,
> from each firm? Keeping in mind that they may not send
> all the CDs I ask for, and that it is a game (for me
> at least and some (many?) others) to collect as much
> stuff ("swag") as possible at a show (so we want more
> that what seems reasonable :-) ).
> 
> - Which firms should I be approaching, and can anyone
> offer contact names/addresses? My first take on firms
> would be:
> 
> - Canonical Ltd. - Ubuntu Badger (or higher)

Dapper is set for release April 20th. We're stuck in a Catch-22 situation where 
it looks kinda amateurish to be distributing copies of Badger and we won't have 
any copies of Dapper on hand.

> - RedHat - Fedora Core 4 (or higher)
> - Novell - SuSE 10 (or higher)
> - Xandros - Xandros
> - Mandriva - Discovery/Lx
> - Terra Soft Solutions - Yellow Dog 4.1 (or higher)
> 
> Now, the above list does not include two of my
> favourite distros, Debian and Knoppix, for
> non-commercial distributions like that we will have to
> rely on fans of the distribution in question to burn
> off several copies for the show.
> 
> What commercially backed distributions. have I missed
> in the above?

	Xen Source. No, it's not a Linux distro per se, but as the leading open source 
hypervisor out there, I don't think it should be neglected.

> 
> Colin McGregor
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