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[Nick Rhodes]

Can somoene get 100 words done by close of today ?

I could craft together a Windows error dialog tonight:

Windows XP has reached end of life.
Would you like Bradlug to help you:

[Install Linux]   [Cancel]


On 6 February 2014 09:04, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:

> I have my laptop set up with all the more lightweight alternative
> distros. So I could bring that to demonstrate.
>
> John
> --
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 10:46 +0000, David Carpenter 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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