[klug] An idea for Thursday

[peterd]

Oh,    ...you probably don't need to install the driver   ...how silly 
of me - I'm thinking windoze here   :-D


peterd wrote:

> I have a portable burner (Acer mini).  It'll only burn at 6x but 
> hopefully that should be fast enough for our purpose. Do you have an A 
> drive? - the driver is on a floppy.
>
> Live Distro - I'm interested in having a look at Kubuntu. I have the 
> latest (?) Knoppix (v3.9) - I'll bring that along.
>
> Peter
>
>
> klug.member.lancer at xoxy.net wrote:
>
>> Seems to me like we may have at least two newbies along visiting 
>> "just looking" as well as us not having a particular focus (or did I 
>> miss something?). Whatever we do on Thursday should be aimed at 
>> entertaining newbies and also the more experienced.
>>
>> Why don't we download some ISO's of all the various Live-CD 
>> distros... I'm thinking maybe the Games ones, the Educational ones, 
>> the latest Knoppix and the like. We could "showcase" the live CD's 
>> around the room by having them running on the boxes surrounding the 
>> class. I think newbies would be very interested by this and the more 
>> experienced would at least be curious as long as the live CD's cover 
>> a good variety.
>>
>> ...and then, if someone would be able to supply a box with a ripper, 
>> perhaps we could have a burning session where we copy the Live CDs by 
>> request? Maybe a "I'll give you two blank CD's for each one you burn 
>> for me me " or similar deal? This way, we could show the newbies 
>> about running boot disks and give them something they can immediately 
>> take away and play with as well.
>>
>> Just a floating idea. Do people agree / disagree? Any particular Live 
>> CD distros people are curious about seeing?
>>
>> Lancer.
>>
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