<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Could I ask Littlehampton Gazette to print it?<br>Frank <br><br>This may come from a Dell with Crashbang, or from an Asus Eee PC series midget lap top with another Linux Distro, this time "Easy Peasy". A LUG member just supplied me with a Debian 5 disk, so you may receive my e-mails from that too. Sometimes I use a minimac. I can assure you that I no longer use XP and Vista is almost unknown to me. I find Linux OS's are all that I need! Linux is great!<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 10/5/09, Gavin Stevens <i><starshine@gavmusic.uklinux.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Gavin Stevens <starshine@gavmusic.uklinux.net><br>Subject: [Sussex] Open day outline<br>To: "Sussex LUG" <sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Sunday, 10 May, 2009, 1:19
AM<br><br><pre>Further to the discussion at the last moot, here is an outline for a possible<br>"Open Day" designed to attract both newcomers to computers & those<br>who are "Linux-curious" but need some idea of what Linux has to offer.<br><br>Attendees to arrive at 9:30 for 10:00 start.<br><br>Seminar 1: <br><br>1.1: Welcome - explain to those who are new to computers that Linux can offer<br>them a low-cost & user-friendly passage into home computing.<br><br>1.2: What is Linux & where does it come from? Simple overview of the<br>origins of the Linux kernel & the GNU OS - nothing too deep at this stage.<br>(A compare & contrast of Windows & Linux will follow).<br><br>1.3: Compare & contrast Windows & Linux. A "translator"<br>between Windows & Linux apps.(e.g: MS Office/OpenOffice.org; Image editing<br>etc.) Finish this section by contrasting the licences for Windows & Linux.<br>Informative but simple - doesn't
need to be an in depth analysis of the GNU<br>GPL or MS licence agreement.<br>This first seminar sets the scene for subsequent seminars of the day which will<br>deal with comparing & contrasting Windows & Linux apps for specific<br>tasks.<br><br>Seminar 2: Office applications: MS Office compared with OpenOffice.org for<br>essential office tasks (maybe also mention AbiWord & Gnumeric).<br><br>Seminar 3: Internet & E-mail applications: Should be fairly easy to compare<br>Firefox on Windows with Firefox on Linux or Seamonkey with Seamonkey. Oh, did I<br>forget Internet Explorer? Also, Outlook Express/Windows Mail compared to a Linux<br>standalone like Claws Mail.<br><br>Seminar 4: Image editing: Could be quite a popular one this, as most people<br>have at least a semi-regular need, in this age of digital photography, to edit<br>& print images. Compare a couple of Windows image editors with the GIMP<br>&/or Inkscape.<br><br>Seminar
5: Music listening & recording.<br><br>Seminar 6: OK, I like this Linux thing - how do I install it? Maybe do a real<br>installation of Ubuntu (which was agreed at the moot as a representative &<br>popular distro).<br><br>Notes: For all of the above, I would suggest only using a comparison with<br>Windows apps briefly, the main purpose being to promote & demonstrate the<br>Linux apps.<br><br>Also point out that there are Windows versions of most of the apps mentioned as<br>being for Linux. In fact most of them are equal in support for Windows &<br>Linux. Suggest that the Windows version of an app that you would use on Linux is<br>a good way to become familiar before installing Linux itself.<br><br>I could spend all night noting little ideas & thoughts that keep popping<br>into my head, but I will leave it there & offer the above as a rough<br>outline. Discussion, debate, other ideas & questions are most welcome
&<br>indeed essential if this project is going to become reality.<br><br>Gavin.<br><br>__ <br>Sussex mailing list<br>Sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>E-mail Address: sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Sussex LUG Website: http://www.sussex.lug.org.uk/<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sussex<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>