We’re approximately 3 weeks away from the Corsair Hackers Reboot. On my end I have so much in the pool. Yup, I know I’ll be hopping around with almost every team that will be cheering for FOSS that day, however, I’ve chosen to dedicate most of my time to the Demo and Talks sections. For the latter I’m yet to come up with some interesting topics. As for the demo, ahaaan … It’s being arranged full-fledged. I’m assuring that no wish shall remain un-fulfilled that day. In my software repository, the following distributions will be made available:
- Arch Linux
- CentOS (32Bit & 64Bit)
- Debian 7.4 (64Bit Full DVD set)
- elementary OS (32Bit & 64Bit)
- Fedora 20 (GNOME, 32Bit & 64Bit)
- Gentoo (32Bit & 64Bit)
- Kali Linux (32Bit & 64Bit)
- Linux Mint (Cinnamon, Mate, Debian Edition, 32Bit & 64Bit)
- Mageia 4 (Full, 64Bit)
- Manjaro Linux (XFCE, OpenBox, 32Bit & 64Bit)
- openSUSE 13.1 (Full, 32Bit & 64Bit)
- PCLinuxOS (KDE, 64Bit)
- Slackware 14.1 (32 Bit & 64Bit)
- Slax 7.0 (32Bit & 64Bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop/Server 12.04/13.10 (32Bit & 64Bit)
I can’t guarantee that all the distributions will be running/demo’ed on physical machines but they will nevertheless be freely available to all. You may copy it, burn it & try on your own laptop. We may of course help you in case there are any hiccups booting it up. CD/DVD burning on our end might be difficult, so I’ll suggest folks to bring a pendrive instead if you want a Live Linux. As for those who wish to have their machine Tux’ed (ahaan, that sounds like a nice name for a Linux powered machine), we will handle the installation part. We have set up an Installfest Team dedicated at installing Linux distros (of your choice). We do have a backup mechanism to ensure that your data are safe, however we cannot take full responsibility if something goes wrong. So, if you’re bringing your machine for a Linux installation, you could do a backup on your end too.
Any other operating system apart from Linux? Yup, indeed, for the more geekies I’m bringing Minix, Debian Hurd, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Computer Science students might be interested to have a look at Minix, an open source operating system by Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum. Minix was in fact the inspirational platform for Linus Torvalds to start coding the Linux kernel back in the early 90’s.
Hurd on the other hand is the iconic operating system by the Free Software Foundation. GNU Hurd was expected to be the kernel for the free GNU Operating System. However, development & design of the microkernel has been slow and Linux on the other hand prospered. Linux therefore became the prime choice of kernel.
BSD needs no introduction here. :-)
###What about Windows users?
Since the event is about promoting FOSS in general, we’re not limiting ourself to operating systems. Our software repository will contain free & open source applications for Microsoft Windows as well. So far my pool has the latest versions of Firefox, Chromium Browser, FileZilla, FreeCAD, GIMP, Inkscape, Notepad++, VirtualBox, VLC, LibreOffice, Abiword, ClamWin, Audacity, GanttPV, GnuCash, X-Chat and NASA World Wind.
I’m all set for an awesome FOSS party on Saturday 19th April 2014. Are you?