[ILUG-Social] Re: chilli - tonight

[Ken Guest]

It's online at http://linux.ie/downloads/

k.

On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 13:16, Niall Walsh wrote:
> I've noticed Niall's name on the BBC site and guessed he was mainatining 
> this.   Is there any way to contribute to what he is doing with it?   
> The main tree is accessable (though the last time I tried I didn't get 
> it working) but some things (say ISP setups) are Ireland specific (as 
> would keyboard layouts, locales, bookmarks maybe etc. etc.) and I have 
> never even seen an ILUG BBC so I don't know what is being done to ILUG 
> it!   Is there a site for it?   With the way the upstream is working it 
> might be hard to release the ILUG version as a patch so I can appreciate 
> the space and bandwidth it would take for a site, but I am sure we 
> can/could/should do something (sourceforge?).   An ILUG BBC is one of 
> the best ways to promote Linux in Ireland (anyone can use it, insert CD 
> and reboot, trivial-net-setup, mozilla) and I would love to help out 
> (but work means _commitment_ is a no-no, I can just hack in my spare 
> time if it ever exists).
> 
> Excuse my ignorance if all this has been discussed before or if the ILUG 
> version is online somewhere already.
> 
> Niall
> 
> 
> Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:52:24PM +0000, Niall Walsh came forth with:
> >
> >>Can anyone explain where the ILUG BBC comes from?   Does one person (I 
> >>can guess who) take the (no longer Linuxcare) source and then make some 
> >>mods?   If so is there any way to colaborate on the "making it ILUG" 
> >>part of the experience?
> >>
> >>Just for curiosity (as it is recorded in the ILUG archives) I was the 
> >>person who while working for Corel downloaded the Linuxcare BCC source 
> >>and gave it to someone from the ILUG (my fellow Niall perhaps, someone 
> >>in the same building anyway) who then went on to question what I had 
> >>given him because it didn't match the binary from Linuxcare!   What I 
> >>gave him was the Linuxcare source as distributed on their site 
> >>unmodified and Corel had no involvement in the whole thing.
> >>
> >you gave it to me, and I gave it to Niall O'Broin, who is the maintainer
> >now.
> >
> >L.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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