[ILUG] The Windows Expo thingy and distro wars

[Diarmaid O'Loughlin]

Would it not be a good idea to get on to RedHat and Mandrake etc. Tell
them what your up to and ask for some free promo CD's and material.

D.

On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, kevin.lyda at itg.ie proclamed :

> 
> would free cd's be of any help?  i'll burn cd's from now until windows
> expo *iff* i get some cd's to burn.  and to give it a challenge, i'll
> do it like so: bring me cd's and tell me what to put on them.  so
> if you love mandrake and want the world to use it, bring me some
> blanks and tell me to put mandrake on them.
> 
> free cd's aren't much help for newbies so i'll look into how to provide
> documentation with them.  if you bring in a distribution, let me know
> what the best documentation source for it is.  for instance redhat
> provides three 99+ page guides - one is an install guide.  it's in
> pdf format so it's easily printed.  there's a print shop around the
> corner from here so i'll look into their prices.
> 
> in addition, cover art would be nice, so i'll accept that as well
> for each distribution.  a pointer to the distro provider (and a note
> that it's not an official copy) as well as a pointer to linux.ie
> would be good.  i don't have a color printer, so you'd need work
> with black and white.
> 
> anway, would this be of use?  i think it's donnacha who is organising
> this so if he could let me know if he want's to unload cd's.  if the
> people interested in donating cd's could hold out until he says he's
> game, i'll post to the list when i get an ok.  someone who mailed
> me about the free redhat cd's said he had a source that could get
> me 100 cd's for 100 quid - i'll take him up and match the first
> 100 cd's i get requests for.
> 
> kevin
> 
> 
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D.
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