[Wiltshire] Library presentation was Meeting tomorrow

[Sharon]

Hi,

I am new to Wiltshire LUG and fairly new to Linux ... I don't do 
anything very much command line. As a newbie I have tried a few 
different Distro's. At the moment I really like Linux Mint as it is user 
friendly for a novice such as myself. I am at present using Ubuntu but I 
am considering changing back to Linux Mint. The one thing I do like 
about Linux is I can try it from the Live CD to get a feel for the 
different versions without loading them onto my hard drive. Then if I 
like it I can load it. This as someone new to Linux is a very 
unthreatening way of trying Linux. At present I actually have Linux on 
an external hard drive and have my computer set up to boot to the 
external hard drive first. If the hard drive is turned off then it goes 
to the internal hard drive and windows boots up. This gives me a really 
mobile system and doesn't affect the main drive that my partner plays 
his windows games on. I have dual booted with windows in the past and 
found it an easy process all I needed to know was to have Windows loaded 
first before Linux, and linux loaded grub and did it all for me. I found 
with Mandriva and Linux Mint that it guided me through the process quite 
easily. As a newbie I found that I needed to use a Linux version that 
would be quite intuitive to use after windows and for me it was 
initially Simply Mepis (the only Linux version I found at the time that 
would work with the wireless router I had, straight out of the box). 
Mandriva was the next which after I changed the router was straight 
forward to set up. I tried Ubuntu and had problems so went to Linux Mint 
which was also quite intuitive and found everything, so was easier than 
windows. No drivers to mess about with.

With all this in mind will you be using live CD's on the day, and will 
you have different versions or are you going for gnu as was mentioned 
earlier? What date are you planning to hold this event because if I'm 
not working I would love to pop in.

Sorry if this is a bit long winded.

Sharon

David Corking wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Fletcher wrote:
>
>   
>> In these dark days of widespread Windows virus infections, how smart would the
>> average Joe Public be to accept a CD from a complete stranger and start
>> installing programs from it onto his PC?
>>     
>
> I think Canonical will post LUGs a bundle of factory-pressed Ubuntu
> CDs (DVDs?) to give away, if you ask nicely.
>
> I bet Red Hat and Novell might too.  Don't know about Mozilla or Sun.
>
> Also worth asking Linux Format (Future Publishing, Bath) if they are
> willing to donate a bundle of magazines to the people of Swindon.
>
> If you choose to instead to invite people to experience The GIMP,
> OpenOffice.org and so forth on their Windows and Mac OS X machines,
> then it will not be too daunting for them to download it **if** they
> have a home broadband connection.  (If not, you may perpetuate the
> digital divide.)
>
> For those without broadband, there it seems almost unavoidable to
> pre-print some CD-Rs with nice labels, and have a pile of
> non-biodegradable coasters at the end of the day.  Unless .. you take
> orders (charge 20 p a disc) and arrange for customers to come back to
> the library to collect their software.
>
> Just some thoughts, as I doubt I will be able to participate.
>
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