[wlug_org] NetBSD @ Installfest

[Brent Wood]

--- Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:

> hi installfest team,
> 
> 


Give it a go.... if we have problems we can try Linux. I don't really want to
discourage people from trying to use FOSS ....

Brent


> email from someone:
> 
> ----------------
> I was hoping to get some help installing NetBSD with KDE desktop at the
> installfest on Saturday. I'm a computer science student at Victoria Uni
> and have selected NetBSD/KDE as it mirrors the lab environment at the
> university maths department. I want to get some experience with *UNIX*
> and to be able to do coursework at home, so would also like to have a
> full complement of development/documentation tools such as C/C++
> libraries, Eclipse, Open Office, Latex, etc, so if you have any of these
> that would be great, and if you don't - no problem I can get them
> myself.
> 
> I have an Intel dual-core dell desktop (with Windows XP) and don't need
> to repartition my drive as I just happen to have a spare 40 gig drive. I
> would also like to be able to open either a windows session from UNIX or
> a UNIX session from windows (virtual desktop?) although this is not
> essential.
> 
> Well there's my wish list. Are you able to help? I am happy to download
> any distros etc and bring them on a disk if you don't have them
> available so let me know if that would be a help.
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> 
> Is anyone here happy to try installing NetBSD, or should we give it a
> miss, and try and get him to use Ubuntu? :-)
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Jethro Carr
> 
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> www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
> > 
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