2003-10-24 (October 24th 2003)

Begin: 5:30 pm
Topic: Mandrake 9.2 demonstration
Speakers: pez4brian

Discussion: Started on the last install step of Mandrake 9.2

    Advantages

  • Graphical install
  • Network
  • Auto Detection and Expert Mode
  • Control Center
  • Hard Drake to show hardware
  • Samba and Apache Config tools
  • Boot graphics
  • splash screen with progress bar
  • How do you get rid of? Was the major question
  • Install of programs
  • dependancy checking for RPM installs
    Disadvantages

  • Mandrake specific RPM package naming
  • this makes it difficult to use third party RPM to satisfy dependencies
  • Questions: How to get rid of splash screen?

Other: Linux Server Hacks book was raffled

LAN Party: 6:30 pm
Games: Quake III