Lets look at adding Cygwin, for 2 reasons For people who want to know about Linux and get a feel for what it is. For remote management of other systems. Sam. Scot Jenkins wrote: >Sam MacDonald wrote: > > >>Any OS but a Linux OS would be, well, not right. I guess BSD or >>something would be OK but not a M$ OS. >> >> > >agreed, must be some form of Linux OS on the distro server. After all >this is the Linux Users group and not some other OS user group. > > > >>Can we add Slackware, it's a Minnesota grown distribution (just learned >>that) it would be good to promote something so close to home. >> >> > >Slackware and Knoppix should be included on the general purpose list. >Knoppix is great for it's hardware detection and it's great for folks >who want to try Linux without installing it on their hard drive. I like >the idea of the smaller/lightweight distros for slower machines. >Although I think you can get Debian and Slackware on low end machines >pretty easily. > > > >>Rick Meyerhoff wrote: >> >> >> >>>IMHO we should start with about 5 - 10 distros. The main general >>>purpose ones and also some for old/slow machines since there are >>>always several people who come to installfests with old machines. I'll >>>stick my neck out and suggest these as a start: >>> >>>general purpose: >>>Red Hat >>>SuSE >>>Mandrake >>>Debian >>> >>>light weight: >>>Damn Small Linux >>>Morphix >>> >>>The distro server needs to be set up to: >>> >>>1. periodically retrieve the latest ISO images, mirrors, >>>updates, whatever for the distros. >>> >>>2. run without a monitor, keyboard, mouse. It has to boot and >>>be ready to telnet in to. >>> >>> > >you will probably want serial console and a laptop to access the box >in order to do initial network setup when first setting up the distro >box at an installfest. Generally there are enough folks with laptops >and/or keyboards/monitors that once could be borrowed for a few minutes >to do the initial network config on the distro box. Myself, I'd much >prefer serial console to carrying a monitor around. > > > >>>3. be fairly secure. User's only need read access and be >>>able to use the CD drive(s). >>> >>>4. do DNS for the fest. At least I think this would be a good idea. >>> >>>What OS should be running on the distro server? I'm tempted to >>>say XP but that would not even be funny. Ironic maybe but not funny. >>> >>> > >Linux!! > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list