[64studio-devel] thank you

[Daniel James]

Hi Terri,

> We now have both the 64 and 32 bit distros on our lil internal server,
> plus the amd-64 and 32 bit Debian mirrors.

Sounds good - please let me know how your students get on with the distro.

> We are going to put together an "essential extras" CD for the students
> over the summer.

That'll be the southern hemisphere summer then? :-)

> It will probably include instructions about studio 64
> (do you want any advertising on the install page

It would be good to provide a link to http://64studio.com so that 
students can check the site for news, updates and the like. We were 
planning to work on some install instructions ourselves for the 1.0 
release - if you would like to send us your draft, we could work 
together on that document.

> I have permission from SUN to give my students JStudio without the
> students having to join SUN's Developers Network.
> 
> We'll set the CD up to install kdewebdev, umbrello, "bc", and Eclipse,
> as well as supplying JStudio (which has the java sdk and Tomcat as part
> of the install), and BlueJ (with netbeans?).
> 
> All these installed troublefree, and run perfectly fine on my machine
> here, once I hd install "bc".
> 
> What do you suggest we take out of the existing CD to make room whilst
> keeping the Studio 64 patches and fixes?

I'd put the extra packages on a second CD, which students can easily 
install by using Synaptic to add the second CD as a package source. If 
you create your own version of the 64 Studio installer CD then you'll 
create a whole load of unnecessary maintenance work for yourselves.

> And the sound is now working beautifully on my machine ... absolutely
> painless, thank you!

No problem! Those Audiophile 24/96 PCI cards 'just work', and they are 
very reasonably priced now too.

Cheers!

Daniel