The installfast was great fun for the 10 or so people who showed up. We had five installs: two ubuntu, two gentoo, and one Fedora Core 4. We also managed to get a new member involved (welcome, Matt). Hoozh took a bunch of photos and posted them online.

Things got a little tricky midway through when the Internet connection went down due to a failure from K-State’s internet provider. Luckily, between CDs and local mirrors, most were able to give their “new” distros a decent test drive.

At one point, attendees got a sneak peek at the CIS server room so our CIS members could show off their “primo” cabling job.

All in all the installfest was pretty good for our first one because in-person contact is a nice change from e-mail and IRC. It was also good to see at least one new face. Let’s hope the next one will draw an even bigger crowd and we can try a greater variety of distros (anybody cowboy enough for slackware around here?).

Linux is all about choice, and there is a huge number of distros to be tried out there. That’s what an InstallFest is for: trying out new things and getting abetter look at your choices. See you next time!

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