[Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXXII reminder, tomorrow Saturday October 24, 2026 Umass Boston

[announce at lists.blu.org (John Abreau via Announce)]

It's actually our 75th InstallFest, not our 72nd.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 7:42?PM Jerry Feldman via Announce <
announce at lists.blu.org> wrote:

> When: Saturday October 24, 2026, from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm EDT
> Where: UMASS Boston. CS CCS Conference Room 3rd floor McCormack Building
> room 0721 a short walk from The Campus Center.
>
> Park in the Campus Center garage or take the UMASS shuttle bus from the
> JFK/UMass station on the MBTA Red Line. This bus goes to The Campus
> Center. Please see https://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2025-ifest72 for
> more detailed directions and maps.
>
> 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 images that you can try out and then install.
> This can be copied to DVDs or USB sticks.There are a number of USB
> creators, such as UNetbootin (https://unetbootin.github.io/). Both
> Fedora and Ubuntu have a USB creator built in.
>
> COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
> welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine. UMass Boston
> students and faculty no cost.
>
> 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. While we prefer you to bring your own
> distros, our volunteers will normally have
>
>           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 distro
>
> Windows Subsystem for Linux
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install> (WSL) may be the
> easiest choice for Windows users.
>
>
> Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, Ubuntu, and
> Mint distributions on Live USB.
>           * Fedora - https://getfedora.org/ (Fedora 42)
>           * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 24.04LTS or 25.04)
>           * Linux Mint - https://linuxmint.com/ (22.1)
>           * other distros can easily be downloaded at the Installfest
>
> We generally have them on local drives and can burn 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. Live images require about 1.5GB. I usually have some USBs
> prepared or can easily burn a USB.
>
> We usually have both a Wired and Wireless network available.
>
>
> Additionally, 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. Linux has a built-in virtual memory
> system, but you can also download and install VirtualBox 6.0
> (http://www.virtualbox.org) which is free and is available for Linux,
> and Windows
>
>
> Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
> information and directions.
>
>
>
> --
> Jerry Feldman<gaf.linux at gmail.com>
> Boston Linux and Unixhttp://www.blu.org
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