[buug] Hello, I'm new.

[Bonkers the Evil Admin (Matt Bockman)]

Umm.. I can't make the install fest as I live in San Diego. What do you 
do at an installfest? I've got a DvD-RW (HP's) and lotsa blanks (err... 
I think I'm running out, time to go to Fry's)... I've got a 2.2 megabit 
connection (down) and I can download everything. What exactly is an 
installfest? I'm very interested now.

~Matt Bockman

Rick Moen wrote:

>Quoting Bonkers the Evil Admin (Matt Bockman) (bonkers at thetechbox.com):
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>>Wow... I like this mailing list. Well, would you think that BSD would be 
>>better then a Linux system for my circumstances? 
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>(1) _Mu._  http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/mu.html
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>(2) Why don't you get a pile of CD-ROMs of various *BSD and Linux
>systems that might be of interest, and try them out, one at a time, to
>see which one you like best?
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>If you come to the Linux Picnic this coming Saturday, I'll be running an
>installfest.  Among the things I'll bring along will be these CD sets
>(quoting http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros):
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>    * Apple Darwin (BSD) v. 1.4.1 for i386, v. 1.3.1 for PPC
>    * Borland Kylix Open Edition 2.0 for i386
>    * Conectiva Linux 8.0 (4 disks) for i386
>    * Corel Linux 1.2 AKA "second edition" for i386
>    * Corel WordPerfect 8.0 Download Personal Edition for i386 Linux
>    * CRUX 0.9.3 for i386
>    * Debian Official "woody" 3.0r0 for i386 (7 disks)
>    * Debian "woody" 3.0 w/Progeny Graphical Installer for i386
>    * Debian Official "potato" 2.2r3 for PPC (1 disk) and SPARC (3 disks)
>    * Debian Official "woody" 3.0r0 for DEC Alpha (7 disks)
>    * Debian Unofficial "woody" pre-3.0 2001-12-27 netinst for i386 and PPC
>    * DemoLinux 3.0 for i386
>    * EasyLinux 1.2 for i386 (2 disks)
>    * FreeBSD 4.6.1rc2 "stable" for i386
>    * FreeBSD 5.0 "current" 2001-08 snapshot (6 disks) for i386
>    * Gentoo Linux 1.2 for i686
>    * Knoppix 3.1 for i386
>    * Libranet 2.0 "essentials disk" for i386
>    * Linuxcare Bootable Toolbox 2.0 for i386
>    * Linux-Mandrake 8.2 (3 disks) for i586
>    * LinuxPPC "2000 / MacWorld CD" for PPC
>    * LNX-BBC 1.618 for i386
>    * Lunar Linux 20020503 for i386
>    * Lycoris Desktop/LX build 44 (3 disks) for i386
>    * MkLinux pre-R1 (2nd image) for PPC
>    * Microsoft NetShow 2.00 build 2.51 for i386 Linux
>    * NetBSD 1.5.2 for alpha, i386, macppc, pmax, sparc, vax, sparc64, sun3.
>    * NetBSD 1.5.2 for amiga, arc, arm32, atari, cobalt, hp300, hpcmips,
>      mac68k, mvme68k, news68k, next68k, pc532
>    * OpenBSD 3.0 (3 disks) for i386
>    * OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 for i386 Linux and pre-6.0 alpha build 641c
>      for PPC Linux
>    * Progeny 1.0 (2 disks) for i386
>    * Red Hat 7.3 (3 disks) and 7.1 & 7.2 (2 disks each) for i386
>    * Simply GNUStep Stage 2 pre1 for i386
>    * Slackware 8.1 for i386
>    * Stampede Linux 0.90 beta "happy valley" for i586
>    * Storm Linux 2.0.6 for i386
>    * Sorcerer GNU Linux 2002-05-17 for i386
>    * Source Mage 20020323 and 20020527beta for i386
>    * Sun Star Office 5.2 for i386 Linux
>    * SuSE Linux "evaluation" 7.0 for i386, 6.3 for PPC
>    * SuSE Linux "live evaluation" (demo disk) 8.0 for i386
>    * Turbo Linux Server 8.0 "viper" (2 disks) for i386
>    * Turbo Linux Workstation (English) 6.1 for i386
>    * Vermillion 7.1.1 (2 disks) and 6.2.4 for i386
>    * Yellow Dog 2.3 for PPC 
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>I'll even have a CDR burner.  Be sure to bring lots of blanks.
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>(If the above seems a little cranky, then understand that coming onto a
>mailing list full of a mixed *BSD / Linux / proprietary-Unix users and
>asking "What's the best Unix?" is difficult to distinguish from posting
>flamebait.)
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