[buug] CABAL installfest, tomorrow (Sat. Sept 28)

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Sep 27 07:39:56 PDT 2002


_This_ Saturday, 10-4, CABAL and BALUG will have another Linux / BSD
installfest at the Robert Austin Show inside the Oakland Convention
Center.  Join us as event staff, and you can get into the RobAusCo
(which is a big indoor fleamarket for new hardware/software goods).
Details: http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/  (Write me off-list
if you want to help staff our table.)

You don't have to need help.  You're welcome to just come and hang out,
and chat.

_Or_ you can come to the regular 4th-Saturday CABAL meeting afterwards,
starting 6 PM in Menlo Park (http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/).  We'll
probably run the BBQ, as usual.  CABAL meetings are relaxed and
comfortable compared to the RobAusCo computer shows, and you're _still_
welcome to bring your machines along and work on them or install your
choice of Linux/BSD distributions on them.



I always bring along my large collection of Linux and BSD
CD-ROMs, which people are welcome to duplicate using _their_ blank
CDRs on my CD burner.  The full list of available offerings is at
http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros

Here are some recent additions.  (Sorry, RH 8.0 doesn't become available
until Monday morning.)

o  Linux-Mandrake 9.0 (3 disks) -- most-popular desktop distro.

o  Lycoris Desktop/LX beta (build 51) -- another popular desktop 
   distribution.  2 disks, not including CD#2 = source code.

o  Libranet 2.7 beta (2 disks) -- my TOP recommendations for a desktop
   system:  A Debian 3.0 variant w/easy installer, graphical admin
   tools, the whole candy store of desktop apps, Real Player / Flash 
   plug-ins, etc.  Latest GNOME & KDE, Opera 6.0, etc.  Extensive 
   hardware autodetection (sound, USB, printers...).  This beta is no i
   longer available on the Net:  They want you to buy the 2.7 
   release-version boxed set. 

o  CRUX 0.94 -- Lightweight, 686-optimised distribution w/BSD init
   and a BSD-style "ports" system for updating/adding software.  
   http://www.crux.nu/

o  Vermillion 7.1.1 and 7.3.1 alpha9 (3 disks, each) -- Michael 
   Jennings is continuing to maintain what used to be called 
   Red Hat with VA Linux Enhancements (RH-VALE).  It's best understood
   as RH with much improved quality control and better hardware support.
   Often, Vermillion/RH-VALE will install on systems that hang RH.
   (Vermillion "alpha" versions tend to be very reliable.)
 
o  Borland Kylix 3.0 Open Edition -- This is Borland's Delphi (Object Pascal)
   and C++ kit, ported to Linux.  Licence of the Open Edition permits 
   creation of only GPLed code.  If you want to issue proprietary 
   binaries, you'll have to buy the full Kylix boxed set.  Clever, eh?

o  SOT Office 2002 -- Variant form of OpenOffice.org from SOT Finnish 
   Software Engineering Ltd., adding improved spelling checker and 
   hyphenation dictionaries, templates, enhanced on-line help, and PDF 
   manual.  Also available in a boxed set with commercial support.


The UnitedLinux beta3 images are out (3 disks, disk 3 being source code
only), but ftp sites are so hammered that I'm very unlikely to finish 
getting them by tomorrow.  Which is a pity because it sounds
interesting.  Reportedly, it most closely resembles SuSE 8.1, including
use of YaST2.


'Hope to see you on Saturday!

-- 
Cheers,            There are only 10 types of people in this world -- 
Rick Moen          those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't.
rick at linuxmafia.com



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