Goose and I were at the warehouse briefly Thursday evening. There are at least four Gateway boxes with similar hardware lined against a wall in the deman room. We think it would be better to install the distros for comparison on these machines during a normal deman session.
Here are the top 3 reasons why:
1. Keeps unnecessary equipment out of the lab.
2. Great intro to installing GnuLinuX for newbs and elicits
their feedback about desktops.
3. Keeps unnecessary equipment out of the lab.
Tom
At 02:52 PM 12/21/06, you wrote:
Mike: Do you have an iso of VL5.8 standard or deluxe? We have Ubuntu (Gnome) and Edubuntu on boxes at the lab. Goose put them together. Dale has a Kubuntu iso. If we bring in a few more boxes from the warehouse, we can install VL standard and deluxe and Kubuntu for side by side comparisons. Tom -----Original Message----- From: frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:frgeek-michiana-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cook Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:51 PM To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [frgeek-michiana] vl 5.8 fyi Vector Linux 5.8 Deluxe is shipping for $26.97 VL-5.8 standard is available for download. http://www.vectorlinux.com/ announcement: http://www.vectorlinux.com/article.php?sid=40 Version 5.8 (LATEST) a.. Kernel version 2.6.18.5 with popular sata, ide and scsi drivers. b.. Glibc-2.3.6 c.. Xorg-6.9.0 is the default X window system. d.. New graphical/text package management with Gslapt and slapt-get. e.. New VL-Hot program for automounting usb devices like pendrives and external drives. f.. Easy on your system resources, should run fine with a minimum of 128mb of ram g.. Reguires 1950 megs of disk space for full install (but you should have more available for additional programs and swap space) h.. Laptop support including pcmcia and apm. i.. Usb support via Udev j.. Most available Linux hardware drivers are included. DESKTOP FEATURES k.. XFCE4.3.99.2 window manager with additional plugins. More wm's available on the deluxe CD. l.. Fully customized KDE-3.5.5 available on the deluxe CD version. m.. Freerock Gnome 2.14.3 is included with deluxe version as a second CD n.. Internet ready with Firefox, Dillo, Gaim, Xchat and more. Mplayer, flash, acrobat reader and java all available on the deluxe CD. o.. Abiword a stand alone full featured word processor that imports exports MS word style documents. OpenOffice and Koffice available on the deluxe CD. p.. Xview and GQview for viewing, manipulating and editing graphics files q.. The Gimp a very sophisticated image creation program available on the deluxe CD r.. XMMS to play most music formats including CD's s.. A full compliment of GUI programs to handle email, file management, text editing, sound manipulation, file compression, desktop themes and more. CONSOLE FEATURES t.. Full development suite with most common libraries, compilers and related tools. u.. Gcc updated to version 3.3.6. v.. PPP setup wizard for easy connection to the net via your modem. Both pppsetup and wvdial available. Update chestnut dialer is now available also. w.. VI style text editors, mutt for email, lynx text web browsing, Midnight Commander file manager, ncftp, telnet, ping, finger and all the basic networking applications and daemons. x.. Vim, apache, mysql, Emacs, samba, screen all available on the deluxe CD version. y.. Added security with a built in firewall, port sentry, openssl and openssh.. z.. Enhanced USB support with udev aa.. The default file manager (midnight commander) will install uninstall all software packages including rpms, slps, debs, and tgz. mike ** This list is PUBLICLY archived. ** PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain. To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/ You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana ** This list is PUBLICLY archived. **PLEASE don't post personal or sensitive information unless you wish for it to be in the public domain.To post to the list send email to frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The archive is available at //www.freelists.org/archives/frgeek-michiana/You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at //www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana
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