[Charlug] Re: install fest

[Bob Evans]

Installfest might be the wrong term.

Let's call it - Linux Day....




On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dennis L. Clark <boomfish at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Evans wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:30 PM,  <jbarn at bigstring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bob, just discovered your linux group. I'm very new  to linux and
>>> interested in finding out
>>> more about the install fest this Sat. How many users do you expect to show
>>> up and what
>>> distros will be installed?  I haven't yet joined the group but I am
>>> interested.
>>>
> I'm also curious as to who we expect to attend this install fest.
> Persons interested in Linux who want help on getting started? Or Linux
> geeks who want to show off to each other and get into arguments on which
> distribution is the best?
>
> Seriously, is there a real need for install fests any more? There are
> plenty of live CD distributions these days where you can just burn a
> CD-R ISO, pop the disk in the drive, boot, and you're running Linux.
> Install fests made more sense a decade ago when live CD's weren't
> available and non-geeks needed help repartitioning their hard drives for
> dual-boot without losing their old OS.
>
> As for me, I may be able to use some help installing Gentoo on my
> Kurobox, and perhaps Ångström on my iPAQ (although I have installed
> Familiar on an iPAQ before), but I suspect I am in the minority in
> needing that kind of help...
>
>
>



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