[Gllug] Installfest Facilities

[James]

Chris I agree with you fully , im quite new to linux (old to unix) but am
finding my feet fast , I have a hell of a time fixing simple thigs as there
is just to much info out there and a lot of it is on a level a few notch's
higher than my level. I would benifit from this as would many others, Im
blest with a best friend who knows most of his linux like the back of his
hand, he always points me to the right guide abut sometimes its hard to
comprehend.
Im quite new to this mailing list but have now sorted instalation on to my
lappy think pad thanks to you lot...
Some one keep me informed about these meetings , i would like to attend.
Regards
james

p.s check out my wifi post , yep im stuck again:)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bell [mailto:chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk]
Sent: 21 February 2005 00:03
To: Dean Wilson; Greater London Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Installfest Facilities


On Sun 20 Feb, Dean Wilson wrote:
>
> Something that never came up in my earlier thread about GLLUG attendance
> was installfest facilities. This leads to a question for the newer
> members of the list.
>
> Would the lack of facilities to install / get help installing a machine
> stop you from attending a GLLUG meet?
>
> My view is that installfests are not as important as they once were, the
> distros are a lot easier to install, the docs (and available books) are
> better and with lists like this one you can solicit help pretty easily.
> I'm not exactly the audience installfests are aimed at though so I'm
> open to other viewpoints.
>
>   Dean

   If Linux takes off in the way we hope there will be many more newcomers,
asking many more basic questions. There are plenty of guides, in fact so
much documentation that many new users are unable to see the wood for the
trees, and in the past some have been put off by the response to their
questions. I feel that they can benefit from configuration help and advice,
and watching an installation, even if they do not bring their own hardware,
while many would be put off by the amount of searching required to discover
the correct book that contains the simple answer required.


--
Chris Bell



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