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Re: [LUG] saturday

 

Paul Sutton wrote:
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> Hi
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> I have one of the dads from the under 7's possibly coming on saturday,
> is someone able to perhaps bring a laptop with a recent distribution on
> it,  to demo please.  If you're coming of course.
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>   
Assuming my laptop is still working by the weekend I can bring it along 
to demoonstrate Ubuntu (hard drive has been playing up).
> Not bothered too much about compiz while it looks nice it does require
> propriatary (sorry can't spell it) drivers sometimes, unless you can
> demo some of the more useful features such as thumbnails while task
> switching,  or perhaps the group / tab thing that seems to be useful.
>
> Multiple desktops are also nice to demo, which is not compiz anyway.
>   
No problem, my machine won't run Compiz very well, I think it's a 
problem with the Intel driver, but hey I can demonstrate Ubuntu itself 
(I'll try and remember to bring a CD along to demonstrate booting from CD).

Rob



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