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:
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>>Any OS but a Linux OS would be, well, not right.  I guess BSD or 
>>something would be OK but not a M$ OS.
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>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.
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>>Can we add Slackware, it's a Minnesota grown distribution (just learned 
>>that) it would be good to promote something so close to home.
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>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.
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>>Rick Meyerhoff wrote:
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>>>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.
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>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.
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>>>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.
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>Linux!!
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