<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Can somoene get 100 words done by close of today ?<br><br></div>I could craft together a Windows error dialog tonight:<br><br>Windows XP has reached end of life. <br>Would you like Bradlug to help you:<br>
<br> [Install Linux] [Cancel]<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 February 2014 09:04, John R. Hudson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com" target="_blank">j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have my laptop set up with all the more lightweight alternative<br>
distros. So I could bring that to demonstrate.<br>
<br>
John<br>
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<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 10:46 +0000, David Carpenter wrote:<br>
> Do'h done it again...so..<br>
><br>
> These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so<br>
> they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:<br>
><br>
> 1) Present them with the problem - XP end of life - no internet<br>
> 2) Try/Demo a linux alternative and get feedback<br>
><br>
> From this we should be able to gather their pro's and con's and work<br>
> out where the difficulties in migration might lie.<br>
><br>
> My hope is that<br>
> a) some people will be genuinely interested in Linux any way<br>
> b) some people will be interested because they have XP at home<br>
> c) on the balance of things, there may be enough people that start to<br>
> be persuaded that Linux could be the way to go for the station as a<br>
> whole<br>
><br>
> I do think they have an opportunity to be the first station to run<br>
> entirely on free and open source software, and that this would bring<br>
> attention/funding/support (e.g. from Canonical perhaps?)<br>
><br>
> BTW BCB are not aware of these plans yet so it may not happen, but if<br>
> people are interested I'll put it to them later this week.<br>
> Cheers<br>
> David<br>
><br>
> On 5 February 2014 10:33, David Carpenter <<a href="mailto:david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk">david.carpenter@nornir.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Yeah, my pitch for the BCB days is this:<br>
> ><br>
> > These are days when volunteers are coming into the station anyway, so<br>
> > they are a ready made audience. what we want to do (IMHO) is:<br>
> ><br>
> > 1)<br>
> ><br>
> > On 4 February 2014 16:56, John R. Hudson <<a href="mailto:j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com">j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> One that I am doing is an Acer which always comes with two partitions;<br>
> >> so I'm doing a dual boot, leaving all the XP files where they are with<br>
> >> strict instructions not to use XP for the Internet. I am hoping that<br>
> >> this way everything can be imported to Linux; if not, I will do an<br>
> >> intermediate install of Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows and get them<br>
> >> to harvest everything and then save it for use on Linux. Will report<br>
> >> back on how it goes.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I still have a free version of Partition Magic which will copy the<br>
> >> user's folder and all its contents to a USB stick without the need to<br>
> >> resort to the command line for other cases.<br>
> >><br>
> >> John<br>
> >> --<br>
> >> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 15:54 +0000, David Spencer wrote:<br>
> >>> Yeah I'd be up for doing something!<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Someone I know is vaguely wondering what to do about XP, the concern<br>
> >>> being that they've paid for Photoshop and other stuff, and don't want<br>
> >>> to be taken to the cleaners all over again, so there is a bit of<br>
> >>> public awareness out there. I think what I would try would be Mint<br>
> >>> and Wine. (Thank goodness they didn't call it Linux Mistletoe). Big<br>
> >>> worries would be backups; carrying forward a decade of files spattered<br>
> >>> around the 'c drive' and so forth; and not losing web logins etc.<br>
> >>> Doing a nice job doesn't necessarily scale, and that's one of the<br>
> >>> worries of a public event. Some other concerns would be liability,<br>
> >>> flakey hardware, and how to look the other way when you find someone's<br>
> >>> stash of pr0nz.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> It would definitely be good fodder for both the radio and Linux Voice,<br>
> >>> which gets us out of most of the worries ;-)<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> We probably need a guinea pig.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Tarra<br>
> >>> -D.<br>
> >>><br>
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