[Cialug] Installfest thought

[Theron Conrey]

Further thought:

Understanding what you are stating Mr. D. Advocate, I agree that we 
stick with just that. Linux.  The FSF is crucial to free software i.e. 
Linux.  I agree that we focus on installing Linux, however if we are 
going to give a presentation about "Open Source" it's right to discuss 
and explain what it (Linux) consists of.  I don't think that there's 
another soul in the group that would want to release a plauge of BSDs or 
non-free Solaris on the general IA populace.  (ok maybe just a little 
bit)  The question needs to be what distros are we going to have 
available.  I think that we got a good start on this during the last(?) 
mtg and we talked about.

1. SUSE
2. Fedora
3. Ubuntu
others?

I'm not suggesting that we open a baskin-robbins (heh heh) but we ought 
to get some different types of distros from around the community and 
make them available.  

Theron



Kenneth Ristau wrote:

>Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> >>From cialug.org front page:
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>>Who are we?
>>A Group of Free *nix Enthusiasts that live in Central Iowa. 
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>OK, point taken. *wipes egg from face*
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>But to make a counterpoint, how many non-linux-kernel distros will we
>offer to install at the Install Fest?  *BSD, Minix, Solaris?
>Personally, I would not feel comfortable installing any of those, but
>other's in the group might.
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>Please don't take me wrong here.  I'm just playing Devil's Advocate in
>order to get our limits defined.  I agree that the FSF and Open Source
>Initiative are crucial elements of the Free *nix movement, but I want to
>suggest that we focus on what an Install Fest is all about -- installing
>Linux.
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>I agree it is a good idea to have a meeting of all Install Fest
>interested parties (at Taki's perhaps?).  This is starting to gain
>enough momentum to warrant an Install Fest Committee.
>
>later,
>kristau
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