[Bradford] Fwd:20 free print subscriptions

[Brian A]

I found this PDF that has some Linux software in it.
http://tinyurl.com/o3w2usl

Brian


On 5 February 2014 10:46, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>wrote:

> Do'h done it again...so..
>
> These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so
> they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:
>
> 1) Present them with the problem - XP end of life - no internet
> 2) Try/Demo a linux alternative and get feedback
>
> From this we should be able to gather their pro's and con's and work
> out where the difficulties in migration might lie.
>
> My hope is that
> a) some people will be genuinely interested in Linux any way
> b) some people will be interested because they have XP at home
> c) on the balance of things, there may be enough people that start to
> be persuaded that Linux could be the way to go for the station as a
> whole
>
> I do think they have an opportunity to be the first station to run
> entirely on free and open source software, and that this would bring
> attention/funding/support (e.g. from Canonical perhaps?)
>
> BTW BCB are not aware of these plans yet so it may not happen, but if
> people are interested I'll put it to them later this week.
> Cheers
> David
>
> On 5 February 2014 10:33, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Yeah, my pitch for the BCB days is this:
> >
> > These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so
> > they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:
> >
> > 1)
> >
> > On 4 February 2014 16:56, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >> One that I am doing is an Acer which always comes with two partitions;
> >> so I'm doing a dual boot, leaving all the XP files where they are with
> >> strict instructions not to use XP for the Internet. I am hoping that
> >> this way everything can be imported to Linux; if not, I will do an
> >> intermediate install of Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows and get them
> >> to harvest everything and then save it for use on Linux. Will report
> >> back on how it goes.
> >>
> >> I still have a free version of Partition Magic which will copy the
> >> user's folder and all its contents to a USB stick without the need to
> >> resort to the command line for other cases.
> >>
> >> John
> >> --
> >> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 15:54 +0000, David Spencer 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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