[GLLUG] Re: CD-burning box: suggestions needed!

[tk3000 at comcast.net]

Yeah, I also believe that a distro like Slackware in its last instantiation; now 10.1 should be present, since it is a very traditional distro and a reference for what linux is all about; and since I have the isos I could provid a cd. Maybe another distro to be considered is the auditor (contains all kind of stuff to do penetration test, audit and crack wifi networks; such as aircrack, void, etc).  auditor's website: http://new.remote-exploit.org/index.php/Main_Page. 

Regards,
Pedro Wald


> After seeing the whole thing in action last night, I think it's a 
> winner.  I think Penguicon attendees will use it, as well as patrons of 
> the Gone Wired Cafe, as long as they know about it.
> 
> As a Slackware <http://www.slackware.com/getslack/> and Mandrake (now 
> Mandriva <http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3>) user, I was a 
> little disappointed they haven't been included in the available ISO 
> list, but I was hesitant to say anything because, if everyone nominated 
> their favorite distro, the list would become overwhelming.  [Not 
> everyone has shown similar restraint.  :)]  Plus, the fact that I have 
> only dial-up Internet access precludes me from downloading any ISOs to 
> provide for the box.  (All but the last of the links I've included are 
> for distro downloads.)  However, one distro I think should be included 
> is the free version of Xandros 
> <http://www.xandros.com/products/home/desktopoc/dsk_oc_download.html>.  
> It's touted as an easy-to-use distro designed to make switching from MS 
> products easier than it is with most distros, so it would be ideal for 
> targetting Linux newcomers.  I also think we should include some distros 
> that are designed to run well on older hardware, such as Vector Linux 
> <http://www.vectorlinux.com/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=12&page_id=4&PHPSESSID=40d
> 990a42e833de862a69c9ebef636ff>.  
> Further, I suggest we try to have the ten or fifteen most popular 
> distros included, perhaps using Distrowatch 
> <http://www.distrowatch.com/> as the arbiter of popularity since I'm not 
> aware of any other metric.
> 
> Another idea I'd like to suggest is a CD of software that is in common 
> use, gets updated frequently, and/or is a huge download.  I'm thinking 
> of things like the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thundebird, 
> the Java SDK and run-time environment, the Linux kernel source, and 
> media player codecs that frequently don't come with distros.  I'm sure 
> there are other worthy candidates, too.  I realize the Open CD includes 
> some of this, so I don't mean to suggest duplicate or another set of 
> programs.  I mean things that people might want that wouldn't ordinarily 
> fill a CD, all together on one CD for administrative simplicity, rather 
> than having a menu choice for each of these items.  Maybe Matt would 
> even consent to putting his CD-burning Perl script on it, as I suspect 
> others would want to set up similar rigs for other shows.
> 
>                               Chick
> 
> Matt Graham wrote:
> 
> >OK, lots of suggestions received about the CDs we should have available 
> >to burn.  The list now looks like this:
> >
> >Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD [*]
> >Fedora Core (all 4 CDs)
> >SuSE (all 4 or 5 CDs)
> >Debian install CD
> >The Open CD (open-source software for Windows) [*]
> >Ubuntu
> >Knoppix
> >Knoppix CeBIT
> >FreeBSD
> >OpenBSD network installation CD
> >The Ultimate Boot CD [*]
> >IPCop
> >m0n0wall
> >LAS Linux
> >P.H.L.A.K  (Professional Hackers Linux Assault Kit)
> >
> >...that's 22 ISO images by my count.  I have copies of the ones with [*] 
> >marked by them on my laptop's hard disk right now, so nobody needs to 
> >bring those.  The others... well, hope somebody has them or can 
> >download them!  We can of course start with a few images and add more 
> >later; it's trivial to put an "every 10 minutes, check to see if mtime 
> >on config file is newer than it was at script startup; if so, reload 
> >config file" into the script.  
> >  
> >
> 
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