Minutes 2003-10-24

Location

New Horizons at 5:30 pm

Agenda

Topic: Mandrake 9.2 demonstration Speakers: pez4brian

Minutes

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

• dependency 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?

Book

Linux Server Hacks book was raffled

LAN Party

Started at 6:30 pm

Games

• Quake III