[wellylug] July City Meeting

[Michael Dittmer]

Hi All...

It was my PC that was serving the ISO images, and after I got X sorted
(thanks to everyone who helped), I was able to get Pure-FTPd working and
serving images. I was also playing MP3's of the CD's that I have.

The Linux distro that I was using to serve the images was Lycoris Desktop/LX
(Build 84 Beta). It is designed purely as a Linux Desktop distro (it's not
called Server/LX for a reason). There are no server tools / services built
into the OS. To get FTP working I had to install and configure Pure-FTPd
from scratch.

The distro comes as 3 CD's (1x Install, 1x Development Tools, 1x Source).
Unless you need to compile programs from source, only the first CD is
needed. Otherwise, all you really need to install is the first and 3rd CD's
(Install + DevTools). Desktop/LX can successfully be run on a 4GB hard-drive
with 128MB RAM, but I would recommend a 10GB Hard-Drive and 256MB RAM. Only
i586 CPU's and higher are supported, so don't try installing it on a i486.

I will be handing around a brochure next meeting, so please feel free to
grab a copy off me then.

Regards

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Klenner, Colin
Sent: 15 July 2003 08:21
To: 'wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz'
Subject: [wellylug] July City Meeting


There were about 25-30 people last night enjoying intense sessions around
particular problems.

A machine with images was available after some initial trials getting ftp
server going on Win98. At two machines copying images the disk was
thoroughly exercised (thrashed itself) keeping up. It would be interesting
to get the same going on a Linux machine and see the result.

CD's of OpenOffice 1.1 were available to all and many took a copy with them.
One of the workshops was on features of OO which included an in-depth
session on the database side. Apparently very interesting as there were 8-10
people crowded around the one computer.

After some trials I  am happy to have had the tape drive functional on my
machine using taper - an older tape utility. Others had various points of
interest, but I did not garner what these were, unfortunately - can someone
else tell us what was going on?

Various other discussions were taking place and I hope we can expect a
presentation on a trip to Sun HQ next month - as well as a session on PHP.

~~~
Colin Klenner


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