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<DIV><B><I>Brent Wood <pcreso@pcreso.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<P class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>We tossed around distros, & didn't want to confuse punters with too many<BR>choices, so we loooked at Mandriva/SuSE/Debian, with some LiveCD's as well.<BR>Trying to target distros which are suitable for first time users. If you want<BR>to give a presentation on Mepis/Gentoo that should be fine. Jamie B was gonna<BR>coordinate these (you there Jamie?). If you are happy installing Gentoo, that's<BR>fine.<BR><BR>Please bear in mind that offering to install also implies you are offering some<BR>level of post install support, at least via the LUG list, if the user needs a<BR>hand.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Brent <BR><BR>Thanks Brent,</P>
<P class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Mepis is a live CD style Debian based distro, good for noobs and hardware testing. I'll put a Gentoo presentation/demo together with a handout but probably not do a 'stand up' at the install fest.</P>
<P class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I'm totally happy to offer follow up support for any installs I do, as well as offering commercial support to small/medium businesses.</P>
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