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On Sunday 08 July 2007 20:29, james kilty wrote: > I wanted to keep it simple. Whilst showing a few distros might be good, > giving a narrow choice would make the first session easy and more > reliable, hence my preference for Ubuntu 7.04 Live DVD. I personally > prefer to offer what I have experience of, and will try Fedora soon and > the latest OpenSuse. I have found Knoppix Live CD excellent. > Much as I love Knoppix - I carry it as part of my PC repair suite whenever I am called to fix yet another Windows problem - it is a little bit OTT perhaps for the beginner maybe. The Ubuntu family are what I use personally, so I would tend to go for those, but I can appreciate there are other equally good live disks out there. PCLinuxOS was mentioned - and that is available on this months LXF - as is Fedora. One thing I did find good with PCLinuxOS is that it does use (albeit slightly rebadged) the old Mandrake control panel stuff which is always good. The best option for which live CD to use is to pick whatever the demonstrator is used to. Familiarity with the system helps when explaining/demonstrating the product. James, I don't know if you have seen the Ubuntu-UK mailing list, but they are working on leaflets for distributing at such events as this. Of course, they are Ubuntu specific in the main, but most of the stuff is general. It can be found on the wiki for the ubuntu-uk group at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets specifically, the Hadenough leaflet. Although not really quite finished, they are worth a look for possible future use or maybe as an idea for some more generic leaflets for handing out perhaps? Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html