[ale] Alternate OS InstallFest

[Venkat Swaminathan]

I have a suggestion for an event. You could have people
put up stalls/booths/tables with their personal experiences 
with Linux e.g. like the talk we had the other day about 
the LRP. Peopl could either bring their own machines or put 
up a poster session which details on how they went about 
getting a particular activity done with Linux.

A few topics I can come up with off the top of my head are

 -  Large disks with Linux (common FAQ)
 -  How to set up a home network using Linux (using either
    single or multiple machines -- firewalls, IPmasq, etc.)
 -  Samba, or Linux-Windows coexistence at home or at work
 -  Kernel patching and compilation

Yes, all the above are FAQs and are probably addressed by 
reading a dozen documents. However, the above event will serve
to bring the wannabes and the been-theres together.

-venkat


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam [mailto:vaidhy at loonys.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:09 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Alternate OS InstallFest
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
>   I have picked up the organizational responsibilites for the 
> InstallFest at @LANta.con scheduled on Mar 31 evening to Apr 
> 2 forenoon. The major bulk of InstallFest is going to be on 
> Apr 1 (Saturday). If there is anyone who can spare their time 
> on that day, please let me know. The following is to give an 
> idea of what to expect:
> 
>   The OS I am planning to include are five distros of Linux 
> (Debian, RedHat, SuSe, Corel and Slack) , FreeBSD, NetBSD and 
> if someone has it, demo version of Be and probably GNU/HURD 
> for those hardcore guys. If any of you has any expericence in 
> installing any/some/all of these OS and would like to give a 
> helping hand, please mail me. 
> 
>   OTOH, if you want any of these installed on your machines, 
> please mark Apr 1 off and come over to @LANta.CON with your machines. 
> 
> For everyone, a short list of planned events are :
> 24 hr gaming (Quake II/III, Unreal tournament, Tribe)
> Rootwarez (Try to haqck into a installed server and/or into 
> other's machine)
> Anime/ Movie for the duration of the conference
> Set of panels on different topics (not all of them related to 
> computers)
> and a bunch of fun games. 
> 
> Any other ideas are welcome,
> 
> Regards,
> Vaidhy
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