[Chester LUG] Install Fest

[Les Pritchard]

That's an excellent idea, a bit more permenant than a live cd.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>wrote:

> That's an excellent idea, a bit more permenant than a live cd.
>
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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:43 PM, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>
>>  On Friday 27 March 2009, Les Pritchard wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > The idea of running an Install Fest has been mentioned a couple of times
>> at
>> > the LUG (including last night).  I think it could be a great idea to
>> hold
>> > something where we can demo Linux to people and between us I'm sure we
>> have
>> > enough laptops running completely different versions / looks to please
>> most
>> > people!
>> >
>> > As I'm on the local BCS committee I've put forward the idea of them
>> > sponsoring (i.e. proving some food!) and promoting the event for us.  I
>> > suspect the University could be a good venue for this.  So could I get
>> some
>> > feedback from people who'd like to help out on the day and maybe do some
>> > demos?
>> >
>> > Talking about it at the social last night I wondered if it would be
>> worth
>> > hanging on for the latest Ubuntu to see if we could get some freebie
>> disks
>> > from them.
>> >
>> > Les
>>
>> Sorry I didn't make it last night, this sounds like a good idea, it may be
>> worth taking a copy of virtualbox on a USB so that people can try Linux on
>> their windows machines if they don't want to repartition etc.
>>
>>  Dave.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. David Holden.
>>
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