My first distro was Mandrake 7.1, and my favorite thing about it when I installed it was that it came with an older version of PartitionMagic, so I didn't have to have a panic attack when it came to partitioning. We might think about including something like that with the checkout cd's. (I don't know of too many M$ users who would be comfortable using fips.)
Whatchoo said,
"der.hans" <
PLUGd@LuftHans.com>:
> Am 09. Jul, 2002 schwätzte Matt Alexander so:
>
> > Dennis' library idea got me thinking about how sweet it would be to mail
> > OpenOffice and Linux CDs to random people, just like AOL does. ;-) Heh...
> > maybe we could get a list of Maricopa County employees to send CDs to...
> > :-) :-) :-)
>
> That would be great, but mucho expensive considering our budget.
>
> > We'd also want to include info on PLUG, of course. Hmm... we need a
> > marketing department.
>
> You're hired! :)
>
> Actually, putting the two ideas together seems like a good idea. We should
> contact RedHat and some other vendors about making their dists available for
> checkout from the libraries. I will step up to be the vendor for debian :).
>
> We should also contact Sun about OpenOffice or StarOffice for m$ CDs for the
> libraries. Is there a mac port of either?
>
> We could make CDs with OO, Gimp and a host of other Free Software packages
> available for m$ OSen available at the library. If we do that, we should
> work with the m$ user groups in town for them to help provide support. This
> could be a great collaborative project. Anybody work with the m$ and apple
> user groups?
>
> We could make the ISO available for other groups around the planet. Let's
> also not forget all the school libraries.
>
> We should also be trying to get the libraries to move to LTSP for their
> computer workstations. They need virus protected boxen that people can't
> much with. I'd think we could put together a solit LTSP-based kiosk system.
> I know of a few places where we can test the concept and prove it works.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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