[LUG] Freeduc & the forthcomming meeting

["Brough, Tom" <Tom.Brough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I must say having had a chance to look at the Freeduc CD supplied by Linux
Format a couple of months ago I was very impressed. The only niggle I had
was that it would not work with one of my machines that had a network card
in it. It seemed to configure the network card and then try to ( I assume)
use DHCP to get an IP address after a while it gave up and droped the card
from the network (connection light went out on hub) but then refused to
continue to boot.

I would be very happy to rip off (burn) some copies of Freeduc to bring to
the meeting, however I noticed on the Freeduc / OFSET website that they
think there is an issue with the fact that they do not supply source as
specified under the terms of the GPL agreement. This apparently didn't stop
Linux Format from putting it on their front cover a couple of months back.

Do you think it would be ok / useful to do this  (I was thinking of burning
approx 10 copies) ?

The other issue I have is my sucessful burn ratio is about 50:50. Has anyone
else had problems with ViaStar blank CD's ( I can't complain they where a
Chrismas Present !). This is even after bringing my burn speed down to 4.

Tom.

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