[linuxola] Linuxola Meeting Revamp-IT

[Theo Schmidt]

The Linuxola Meeting last Friday 11th August was an especially 
interesting one because we met at the new location of Revamp-IT in 
Zürich and enjoyed their hospitality (thanks guys!), including an 
attractive table near large windows opening onto a tree-lined street 
with seats for everybody, fruit and drinks, a working LTSP (Debian 
Testing), and 3m high towers of computers for "atmosphere" (some part of 
the Linuxola store)! Several guests came, and welcome to Ruben who has 
just newly subscribed to this mailing list. Special guest Gideon 
unfortunately could not make it, but others were able to tell of his work.

This isn't meant to replace the minutes ("Protokoll"), but I would just 
like to comment on the Openlab CD Amadeus got from Philip? in Namibia 
(http://www.getopenlab.com). I just tried it out yesterday and it is 
really good. It starts as a Live CD and is based on Slackware and KDE. 
The Hardware detection is very good, about like Knoppix, in one respect 
better in that it found the correct settings for 1280x1024 pixels by 
itself. Quite fast (much faster than Kubutu-LiveCD and maybe even faster 
than Knoppix) even in LiveCD-mode and really well thought out. There is 
a hard-disk installer as well, which I didn't try. Certainly for 
English-speakers and owners of US-keyboards it is a good distribution to 
use straight from CD. Interesting how Africa is leading the world in 
usability for slim Linux distributions.

Theo Schmidt