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[Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LX Saturday June 4, 2016
- Subject: [Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LX Saturday June 4, 2016
- From: gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 10:35:36 -0400
Boston Linux Installfest LX When: Saturday June 4, 2016, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 2 Amherst St, Cambridge Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51. http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions. In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install. Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB creators. COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine. Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web pages for hardware compatibility. Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros. Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu distributions: * Fedora - https://getfedora.org/ (Fedora 23 Live DVD/USB and fedora 24 beta) * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 16.04 LTS DVD/USB) * other distros can be downloaded at the Installfest We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and USBs. Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the distros. LiveCD images required under 1GB, full DVD images for Fedora require about 4GB, and OpenSuSE needs 8GB. I usually have some USBs prepared. We generally have both a Wired and Wireless network available. The wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT". In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 5.0.20. (http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are also some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows. Lunch is generously sponsored by Bluefin Technical Services, John Ross and Ron Thibeau Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator. -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: B7F14F2F Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce at blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce
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