[Leaplist] Re: hamcation setup etc.

[Danny W. Burdick]

Looks like I'm in the same boat over here on the East Coast
I'm guest speaker this month for the Indian River Amateur Radio Club
(made up of most of the engineers for the Space Center)

The  asked for a guest speaker on Linux
I intend to take enough copies for everyone attending
that would be at least 50

I am a distro nut
downloading and trying everything that has ever been on Distrowatch daily

I am going to recommend the kubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386 release for these 
reasons

An absolutely overwhelming noob support infrastructure vastly 
outnumbering anything else out there

It's preeeetttttyyyyy.....kde

Basically based on debian although I don't like the fact that the 
*buntu's are not pure enough debian to do
and apt-get upgrade distro ......LOL

The mepis and mint are both waaay more fun and have all the codecs stuff 
under control...but they are both
done by (one man).....possibly stranding you!!!

I'm relying on that Ham (let me get my fingers in there mentality) and 
the massive availability of support both
online and at the bookstores to see those noobs thru hard times..

If I had a little more time, I would gin up the last Leap kde ham 
distro...but no time just like you guys....
I speak this Thursday night at 7pm...

Maybe someone could catch me up to speed on what's needed to do this and 
I'll assist in the next release.....

see ya all at Hamcation.....

got Linux ?

burdicda
ke4ozd

>
>> I'm sorry to say that my efforts to create a ham radio ISO have 
>> fallen upon
>> the rocks. I meant to work on it last week and the weekend, but work 
>> exploded
>> and I spent days and night supporting that instead of having time to 
>> work on
>> the image.
>
> what? where are your priorities, man? what did they do, PAY you to 
> support their people instead of the ham radio linux stuff?
>
>> With that said, I think any modern distribution or two will work.
>>
>> So how about this:
>> 100 Kubuntu latest version.
>> http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
>> kubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso is the one we want.
>
> or is there any difference? i know david billsbrough has a stack of 
> CDs and is waiting to be told what to burn- maybe he should download 
> both and try them, and see which one he thinks is better- not just for 
> ham radio stuff, but with a decent set of "normal" programs as well. i 
> would do it myself but i'm pretty much booked solid this week.
>
> so let's do that- david, download both of them and try them, and 
> whichever one you think is a better distro in terms of ham radio and 
> "normal" programs, burn 100 of that.
>
>
>> 50 Linux Mint.
>> 4.0 Beta Main Edition (I'm pulling this down right now)
>>
>> 50 OpenDisk
>> http://theopendisc.com
>
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