[linuxola] Linuxola Meeting Revamp-IT

[Amadeus Wittwer]

Hello Theo

...more terminalserver stuff for testing ;-)
http://www.slixs.at/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=63

peace + be wild  amadeus


Am Sonntag, 13. August 2006 10:46 schrieb 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
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