Standardizing the install-fest (WAS Re: Meeting Notes for 20030116)

[Jonathan Nicol]

ftp://redhat.cac.washington.edu

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Cliff wrote:

> FWIW, the campus sports a local RH mirror making iso downloads and/or
> ftp installs (espicially on campus ethernet) quite painless.  Then there
> is just one rpm install from xmms.org and you're set for mp3's (don't
> forget to download sndconfig for those isa sound cards).
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> Cliff
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> Eric O. Dean wrote:
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> >> > Why are RH and GUI evil? Just curious.
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> >>GUIs are fine if your machine has the oomph to support it.
> >>If you're trying to eke out battery life on a 4 yr old 32MB laptop
> >>during a plane flight, then working straight from a set of virtual
> >>consoles looks a whole lot more reasonable.
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> >Thanks for the clarification.
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> >Per an install-fest, I'm a newbie (I just installed (evil) RH 8.0) but would
> >be willing/like to help out some other way if needed.
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> >Eric Dean, Program Coordinator
> >School of Social Work, Continuing Education
> >University of Washington
> >(206) 543-1122,     Fax (206) 543-2184
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