[vox-outreach] [demo][farmer market] OpenCD Copies

[Alex Mandel]

Jim George wrote:
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 02:59 pm, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> For the upcoming Free Software Day tabling at the Farmer's Market I was
>> preparing some CDs for distribution.
>> This email is so we can try to coordinate/distribute the burning effort:
>>
>> What to Burn| Platform| How Many| % |Link:
>> OpenCD v3.1     x86       ?      50% http://www.theopencd.org/download
>> FreeSmug   Mac PPC/Intel  ?      20%  http://www.freesmug.org/fscd/
>> KubuntuLive6.06 x86       ?      20% http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
>> KubuntuLive6.06 PPC       ?      10% http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php
>> Knoppix                   ?       ?  http://www.knoppix.org/
>>
>> So the estimates here make it easy to divide up 10 discs into
>> 5,2,2,1 respectively.
>> The Live x86 number may seem a little low but that's because the OpenCD
>> has a Live Ubuntu 5.10 on it.
>>
>> Let me know what you guys think, who can burn how many and how many
>> total we should burn.
>> I'm offering to burn 10 discs for sure.
>> I've got torrents running on all of these right now, so I'll start
>> burning tonight.
> 
> We (me and Tim) have a total of 30 knoppix 5 cd's.  
> 
> I have d/l iso of theopencd, burned and tested.  Stable.  Dig this...it's also 
> a live ubuntu cd!!!  This is sooo bitchin.  I will burn 25 on QUALITY cd's 
> (last time I did this they were cheap cd's and caused people's pcs to lock 
> up!).
> 
> How bout some freesmug cd?  Never heard of them but would like to see it.  Is 
> it a live cd?
> 
> Didn't we receive some Kubuntu/ubuntu cd's that were shipped?  
> 
> One very important thing.  Lugod member Tim Riley  and I found that booting a 
> knoppix cd into a system that has wifi will cause it to crash.  Not only did 
> it do this to my custom pc but my daghters dell as well.  I have googled and 
> found that this is a known problem.  Some sites state that boot option 
> knoppix failsafe will eliviate this but it doesn't.  I also tried knoppix 
> noapm nodhcp acpi=off  and that almost worked but it failed to load agp pkg 
> for eth1 (my wifi).  Need a solution.
> 
> I have a couple of other live disks as well like mepis, kate, and something 
> else that has escaped my memory for the time being.
> 
> Give me some feedback as to what I should do/burn/whathaveyou.
> 
> I still need literature, table(s), chairs, and other cd's that are now 
> available.  I believe Ryan has table and chairs.  Bill correct me if I am 
> wrong.  Does he also have literature or does that need to be printed as well?  
> I will email him directly and ask if I can set up a pick up time.
> 
> Jim

Ok, I'll burn 10 Freesmug and 5 Kubuntu PPC Live discs.
Unfortunately freesmug does not appear to have a live disc on it.
Also note that the OpenCD has an older version of Ubuntu. Check that you 
have OpenCD 3.1, 3.0 has 2 versions old of Ubuntu.
Speaking of which, that's the problem with the Official Ubuntu Discs we 
have they are Hoary 4.10, 2 years old version at this point, 6.06 the 
latest is 3 versions newer.

As for literature, if someone sends me the files they want printed I 
have a high speed duplex laser and can run off some stuff (I've got a 
box of 30% recycled paper and need an excuse to use it.)
We should probably have a page on each of the discs we give out so 
people know whats on them.

Hmm, I've run knoppix 5 on my laptop but never tried the wifi - I always 
use it for fixing things never just using the machine. I'll test it out, 
and compare to the latest Kubuntu Live.

Another cool disc I've been playing with is Helix. Maybe you want a few 
copies of that. It's a forensic/data recovery disc with a windows 
executable and a custom knoppix based live CD all about security, file 
recovery etc. It's supposed to be good for cleaning a windows machine 
while it's being infected or attacked.

Alex