Boston Linux Installfest XXXIV When: Saturday August 22, 2009 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 2 Amherst St, Cambridge Plenty of parking in front of the building. 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. 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. While we prefer you to bring your own distros, our volunteers will normally have Linux.ORG: http://www.linux.org/hardware/index.html Hardware HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.linuxdoc.org/ Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros. Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu distributions: * Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 11) * Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 11.0) * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Jaunty Jackalope 9.04) * Debian - http://www.debian.org/ 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 3.0.4 (http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows. 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 Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846