Re: Redhat/SuSE was Re: [Fsfe-uk] Upcoming Exhibitions

[Martin WHEELER]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Simon Waters wrote:

> In terms of freebies - are Knoppix CD's a starter

I hope so -- it's certainly what I personally would advise.
(Have a look at Debian Edu and Debian Med also.)

I take Knoppix CD(s) with me everwhere I go -- and usually end up
blowing quite a few minds.

As a 'for instance' -- last weekend I was in PC World Taunton; and
created a near riot by testing every PC in sight with the Knoppix CD.
The salesmen were *well* impressed.  So much so that I ended up making a
copy for them, there and then, on one of the shop machines, and leaving
it with them to show prospective clients that their machines *will* run
Linux, no probs.
(Running the ascii demo 'bb' is a good one.  They love it.  It's flashy.
it's whizzy, it's flash ascii, and you can demonstrate running aumix on
another tty console to play with the sound settings.  Then back to KDE
under X on Ctrl/Alt/F5 so they don't suffer withdrawal symptoms from a
windowing environment.)

Note: those machines which won't boot from the CD straight off (e.g
certain Toshiba laptops) will respond to 'knoppix noscsi' at the boot
prompt.


>  at a recent meeting one of our LUG members
> booted an (untested) laptop straight into a nice modern Linux
> distro, with good hardware detection. Very impressive

Absolutely.

> Assuming the experience is typical of Knoppix

It is.

> definitely introduces the "right kind of GNU/Linux".

Couldn't agree more.
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