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Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving?
trustedserf writes "This year I am including a bootable Live Linux CD in many of my Christmas cards. As I'll be making the copies myself I may even change the default desktop background to something personal, or Christmasy before running it off on cheap CD-Rs. The objective is to show people the easiest possible route to using a linux desktop so that they will be: A) Aware and B) Pleasantly surprised. About Christmas they may also have more time to try it out too. Naturally, I'm thinking of Gnoppix, but there are other options.. I use KDE, so I have to decide between it and Gnome. Bearing in mind my objectives, what distro would you choose. Also, importantly, is it possible any of them will damage their hardware (monitors with incorrect refresh etc.) I would be *very* unhappy if that happened. How many of them would fail to boot, leaving a bad impression? Which way would you go about it for maximum "WOW"."
Now I can see why you have no friends.
windows-xp-professional-with-keygen.iso
I'd skip the Linux live CD and give a charitable donation to The Human Fund instead. It's much more meaningful.
Christmux.
Nothing says, 'I'm cheap' on Christmas like giving out burned CD's of free OS's! I bet you gave out bootable floppies of FreeDOS before you got a burner!
I'm jumping on the "this is dumb" bandwagon.
Give them something useful like Firefox. Leave a note:
1) Install
2) Use for 7 days
3) Send me a thank you card for saving you
Giving a CD full of free data is rather passe, IMHO
It is? So was once popular but now it's out of fashion? Really, I must not have picked up on that trend.
Or maybe you're using words that you don't know how to define! Always bad form, even for Slashdot. Hell, especially for Slashdot!
If I'm on your christmas list, just fill it with pr0n intstead -- then the knoppix-feature of not touching the hard drive is pretty useful; so parents don't see the stuff in my browser history.
just put a message on the first boot screen that says they must send copies of the Live CD to 7 friends and family within one week or they'll have bad luck... like Timmy Tomelson in Desmodo, Nebrasksa who didn't believe the curse and was sued by the RIAA, for illegally downloading copies of John Tesh at the Red Rocks or Bostuli Smith of New Townslope, New Hampshire whose liquid cooled beowulf cluster sprung a leak destroying his systems, and rendering his attempt to compile a complete Gentoo distributin in record time (less than 3 weeks) an utter failure.
I'm hoping this will make it into the drafts of GPL 3.
The RFC, the server, or the client?
If one of my friends would use the Winter Solstice and Saturnalia to evangelize *anything*, they'd be spending the night in the manger... ;-)
Oh well, what the hell...
I got an AOL 9 disk for christmas last year from my cousin. Needless to say he's getting a present from my cat's litterbox this year.
Which way would you go about it for maximum "WOW"."
Buy them a Mac
About 11 years ago, I got so sick of my relatives getting me clothes for Christmas that I declared that if anyone every got me clothes again, I'd reward when with an NRA membership next Christmas.
I have a family full of Democrats, I never got clothes from them again.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
As a Democrat who hunts...
Can I have your address? I have a lovely cardigan that you *must* see.
It subtley indicates that the sender knows something about Linux and wants other people to as well. If that's your idea of subtle, I would...oh never mind. Just give a stuffed penguin instead. If you want people to learn something from your gift...that's too much pressure to be putting on a friend for Christmas. It's like handing out copies of The Writings of Malcolm X as stocking stuffers.
"Hey Bob...did ya try out the new CD? Pretty cool desktop, huh?"
"Ummm...no. I, um...uhhhh,...."
"WHY NOT?"
"I don't know....Windows is just so much easier. I couldn't figure out how to make Linux recognize my flash drive, and Windows just detects it automatically, and...."
"WINDOWS?!?! Flash drive! That's so EASY! You should have CALLED ME!"
The only way I could get any of my in-laws to run it would be to send it to them in a fake email that says they need to run it to secure their bank account password.
if you want some MAMEing, just give them coal.
COAL you fools, stuff their filthy stockings with COAL!
Yeah free old games! You know AOL mails me a cd full of free games every month, so it must be a great idea.
Life in Orange County
Fuck yeah she's a l33+ h4XoR! Biotch totally 0wnz0r3d my damn box last April fools. I'll get her good next year, packing her off to a home. See who's laughing.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
I'm guessing his name is Albert Orville Lewis, and he always signs his cards with his initials: AOL. Man I've been getting this guy's CDs for YEARS.