Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Alan Dayley so:
> Agreed. What happened to plugpresents.com? Do we still have that
> domain and can we still use it?
The person who owns it got a bad case of RL. Don't know if she could arrang=
e
for us to get it back.
I'd rather use the PLUG site anyway. Why drive people elsewhere. We have a
nice site, let's improve it and use it :).
> Why? Free Software is about choice, why should we remove it? Granted,
People would still be able to request what they want. Provided we can help
them with that, we would. I don't want to take away choice. I want to reduc=
e
confusion. Minimally, we need to try to get friends who show up together on
the same distro. Same thing for multiple boxen for one person.
> a newbie is not going to know what to choose. So, the PLUGger that is
What I'd like is for use to have a default that we suggest when the newbie
doesn't already have something in mind.
> helping the install will choose for them based on the PLUGger's
> preference. I would suggest that the preferred desktop of the distro
> that is installed should be the desktop chosen. Installing Red Hat, use
Hmmm, that sounds like a good idea. Hmmm, I think it is a good idea :).
I don't think we could agree on a single distro at this point, so that migh=
t
be the direction we need to go.
I'd still like to decide on one or the other. I think we'd probably end up
with KDE. I prefer GNOME and I'd prefer to promote GNOME, but I still think
KDE is probably the way to go. Maybe I should listen to Ted and start
promoting GNOPPIX :).
> To phrase my question another way: What benefit do we, the InstallFest
> operators, get by installing only one desktop? I don't see one, myself.
Limits the range of newbie questions. Most of us don't run into a lot of
things anymore because we've learned how to get around whatever issue it
might be, or we don't follow the docs, so we don't know they describe the
wrong thing, or we don't think about vocabulary issues, etc.
By having most of the newbies come from the same place we are more likely t=
o
have repeat questions that only need to be researched once.
Then we could add an InstallFest2003 FAQ :).
> Yes. It will need that. Content for this can be lifted from other
> sites and howtos that are readily available.
Yup. We need someone to do the lifting :).
> VERY IMPORTANT! A defrag can turn a less than 1 hour install into a 3+
> hour adventure in boredom.
Yup. This is something we've not emphasized before. It burned us. We need t=
o
make sure this is strongly emphasized on the site.
> I don't know about this one. I think mandrake and suse have tools to
> handle this but I have not used them. :^\
For ntfs? Cool. Can you find out what they are? Anyone have experience
resizing ntfs with Free Software?
Another option is to contact whoever it is that owns the commercial one and
ask about an unlimited boxen, one day license for using it. They would get
promotion as we'd tell people what we're using.
AZOTO, of course, doesn't promote this, but the InstallFest is a PLUG event=
,
so PLUG needs to decide how to handle that.
ciao,
der.hans
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