Jan topics?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Jan 3 22:56:24 MST 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:05 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008, at 4:27 PM, DarkElf109 wrote:
> 
> > n the alternative platforms note, Mac users can use Fink [0] and
> > DarwinPorts [1] to get binary and/or compiled open source programs. If
> > there's interest, I could probably do a short demo on them at the  
> > West side
> > meeting (no guarantees for East side). It probably won't be more  
> > than 15 or
> > 20 minutes, since it's not a terribly deep topic, but it's good for  
> > people
> > who don't know it's there.
> 
> Why not a presentation on Open Firmware, EFI and elilo? There is more  
> stuff there and it is something people must understand at least  
> somewhat to run linux on their Macs.
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be sure to cover how to upgrade to Leopard because you can't use
BootCamp any longer if you are using Tiger...planned obsolescence, what
a concept. 

Craig



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