[wellylug] Installfest flyers

richard bacon dickieb68 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 6 19:05:31 NZST 2005


--- richard bacon <dickieb68 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:08 -0700, Brent Wood
> wrote:
> > > > So I'm surprised at the recommended specs.  Do
> > the newbie distros
> > > > provide any option to limit what gets
> installed?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes they do. But you are still typically having
> a
> > fair bit of bloat there...
> > > like Gnome or KDE centric, etc, and going
> through
> > a list of of a 1000 or so
> > > packages to omit what someone thinks you need is
> a
> > pain.
> > > 
> > > I prefer installindg a distro of the hardware
> > vintage. No, you won't get a
> > > current setup, but the hardware won't support
> that
> > anyway. Use a distro
> > > designed to work on that hardware as a full
> > install. Prob better for the user
> > > as well.
> > > They can't have any false hopes from trying the
> > latest & greatest either :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Then we better have some CD's with older versions
> > lying around.
> > 
> > I have Mandrake 9.0. Shall I bring this, and
> install
> > it for the
> > needy? ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>
> > 
> > www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com
> > 
> >
>
www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
> > 
> 
> A knoppix light or similar might be a better choice,
> the base apps will be up to date.
> 
> Richard

e.g.
http://www.morphix.org
check out the 0.5 pre4 light

Richard

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