Re: [edlug] Talk Thurday 1st March at Hollyrood

[Andrew Ramage <nrsc16850@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Surely you mean 1st April ?  (Sorry for picking nits, but I thought I 
had missed the meeting when I first saw your message.)

Bob Kerr wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On Thursday 1st march at the Hollyrood Tavern I hope to give a small 
> demonstration of Fedora Core 2 beta running on a WD Raptor (Sata) then 
> the same machine running on a normal IDE drive. This will be a very 
> short demonstration for those that are interested in seeing the speed 
> difference between the two. I know there are lots of other important 
> performance related issues but I thought this would be of interest.
>
> The machine I will be using will have a DVD and a CD which will both 
> be bootable. I will then leave some copies of some live CD's such as 
> Morphix, Mandrake Move, E-learnix, Dam small linux , Dynabolic, 
> Freeduc and if someone can bring in the DVD from Linux format a couple 
> of months ago then the Sun Java Desktop. I intend to let people play 
> with the machine rather than me giving any formal talk on live CD's.
>
> The demonstration will be held at 8PM. I will also be hosting a 10min 
> (gardeners Question time) slot as suggested by Andrew Smith so that if 
> anyone has any questions about  Linux then we can steer the questions 
> to those that can answer them.
>
> I would also like to say that I thought the idea of using used CD 
> labels as name tags(also by Andrew) was a good idea for name badges, I 
> hope someone will bring in some old labels and pens.
>
> At 7pm at the same location (Hollyrood not Hollywood as I mistakenly 
> typed the last time : ) ) I would like to hold a discussion on 
> Advocacy and forming  a subgroup of EDLUG that deals with this issue.
>
> Many thanks to Gordon for  bringing in his projector to last months 
> meeting for the demonstration of Knoppix it made a big difference and 
> was very much appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Bob
>
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