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On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 22:18 +0100, Mark Jose wrote: > 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. I gave a copy to a friend who lost his data! > > > > 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 context was what I had tried. > 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. Indeed and they reviewed and compared several. U came out top on their criteria though others were close. > 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. Perzackly. > 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. Thanks I'll have a look. > 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? We seem to be working towards a suite of resource modules. > james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- 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