Just to offer some Newbie input, I recently installed Simply Mepis 3 on two 
computers and I really like it so far. Being that it is a live CD that can be 
easily loaded onto the hard drive might make it a good choice to have on hand 
at the Installfest. 
 Stu

On Sunday 20 March 2005 00:10, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> I second the Beatrix nomination. I looked at Beatrix recently and found
> it to be a nice little distro well suited to someone sticking a toe in
> the Linux water.
>
> -mj-
>
> Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> > It might be nice to include BeatriX(http://www.watsky.net/) as well.
> > It's a pocket-CD sized Ubuntu variant cut down for use on limited
> > hardware, or by non-technical users.  Full Linux kernel, but only a
> > small selection of applications, and no active servers. It's nice for
> > "just get me a simple system I can use" requests, and it works well to
> > see if Ubuntu will work on a system prior to doing an install (boots
> > faster than the Ubuntu Live-CD).
> >
> > Might also be good to include the SLAX Live-CD along with Slakware,
> > since it's a very useful way to see if slackware will work well on a
> > system (and get some of the hardware detected) without taking the time
> > for an install...
> >
> > I'd say definitely include Debian (testing and stable), even though the
> > CD set is huge, just to have the packages available locally (aptitude
> > and apt-get can use the CD's as sources for any of the Debian based
> > distros if needed)
> > I understand the uncertainty on Gentoo.  I'd say just have the Universal
> > Live CD for x86, AMD64, and PPC.  I don't see much point in using Gentoo
> > if you're not going to do a ground-up build of the system.  I'd also say
> > that any Gentoo install should require advance notice, to ensure there
> > is sufficient expertise available to get the system build process
> > started (it's pretty unlikely it'll be finished in one day) before the
> > installfest ends.
> >
> > For the 64-bit versions, be sure to note whether it's IA64(Itanium) or
> > x86_64(AMD), since the two are incompatible.
> >
> > Just some thoughts...
> > ==Joseph++
> >
> > P.S. Thanks, Dennis, for offering to create this kind of resource, it's
> > a lot of work to keep up with this many distributions, and we appreciate
> > it.
> >
> > Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> >>I'm putting together a "Distro Silo" to bring to the PLUG and ASULUG
> >> InstallFests loaded with the following distros.  My criteria for
> >> including a distros is 1) There are PLUG members active on the list that
> >> can support it 2) A good user community exists (either represented on
> >> LinusQuestions or on the distro's website) 3) It's not a beta version or
> >> limited time evaluation version 4) Security updates are available on a
> >> regular basis. 5) There is a free download version (I know I've included
> >> a couple that don't meet this requirement).
> >>
> >>I'm listing a few intersting Live-CDs because they are fun to play with,
> >> not because they make a good install cadidate.  Distros shown in
> >> parenthesis I'm undecided about.  Where possible I'll include PPC,
> >> 64-bit and DVD versions.
> >>
> >>Am I missing anything that you feel *must* be on the list?
> >>
> >>There's the list so far:
> >>
> >>MandrakeLinux
> >>Fedora
> >>Ubuntu
> >>Mepis
> >>SuSE
> >>(Debian)
> >>KNOPPIX
> >>(Gentoo)
> >>Slackware :-)
> >>DamnSmallLinux
> >>Xandros
> >>FreeBSD
> >>(Vector)
> >>SLAX
> >>CentOS
> >>Libranet
> >>PuppyLinux
> >>Yellow Dog
> >>IPCOP
> >>Morphix
> >>RubberChickenLinux - New, very flexible distro.  Look for it the first of
> >> next month! ;-) NetBSD
> >>SystemRescueCD
> >>SmartBootManager
> >>ScanModem
> >>OpenCD
> >>LT Modem Driver
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