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Subject : Re: LUG: installfest on 22 Apr

From : "Heather Heinz" <aileens@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:23:27 -0400

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I should have plenty of Ubuntu install disks. Printed ones, at that!

Heather

On 4/10/06, Wolfman < wolfman.ncsu2000@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:
Perhaps Ubuntu would be a good distro to use?  Who knows: maybe I
could even help install that!

On 4/10/06, Jonathan Smith < smithj@gentoo.[redacted] > wrote:
> For this install fest, I hope to use PxE/tftp to save on the trouble of
> burning install media. However, to do this, I will need to know which
> distros folks would like installed. I already have rPath Linux 1.0.1 and
> Foresight Linux 0.9.4.mr2, as well as my personal favorites Orleans
> GNU/Linux 1.1.5 and Gentoo Linux 2006.0 and the popular favorite Ubuntu.
> However, I realize some of you guys like other distros, so I'm going to
> be taking requests for ISOs to download and set up for PxE boot.
>
> Also, if your computer is too old to network boot, and you'd like
> something installed, let me know and I'll try to secure some physical
> media for use.
>
> Also note that I am going to *highly* discourage use of FC5. I realize
> that some of you might take this to be my supposedly anti-redhat stance,
> but I have received a high number of support questions from friends
> using FC5 which basically boiled down to the fedora "project" screwing
> things up. There are much better distros out there, guys (if you need
> redhat based, check out CentOS).
>
> -smithj, keeper of teh shiny (mine... all mine)
>



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