[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions

[Nick Rhodes]

If the hardware has the resources, an alternative to wine is a good old
virtual machine.
I don't think we should have a public event for doing actual
up/down/side-grades from XP (as well as the reasons Dave mentioned its time
consuming), but a public event to provide advise and help, demos IMHO would
be better where we can provide an offer of adhoc support via mailing
list/website/hangouts/IRC etc


On 4 February 2014 15:54, David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Yeah I'd be up for doing something!
>
> Someone I know is vaguely wondering what to do about XP, the concern
> being that they've paid for Photoshop and other stuff, and don't want
> to be taken to the cleaners all over again, so there is a bit of
> public awareness out there.  I think what I would try would be Mint
> and Wine.  (Thank goodness they didn't call it Linux Mistletoe).  Big
> worries would be backups; carrying forward a decade of files spattered
> around the 'c drive' and so forth; and not losing web logins etc.
> Doing a nice job doesn't necessarily scale, and that's one of the
> worries of a public event.  Some other concerns would be liability,
> flakey hardware, and how to look the other way when you find someone's
> stash of pr0nz.
>
> It would definitely be good fodder for both the radio and Linux Voice,
> which gets us out of most of the worries ;-)
>
> We probably need a guinea pig.
>
> Tarra
> -D.
>
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