Date: Nov 11/28/14 9:37 AM Subject: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIV Saturday December 6, 2014 From: Jerry Feldman Boston Linux Installfest LIV When: Saturday December 6, 2014, 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 Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St. 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. 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 distros. Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu distributions: * Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 20 DVD/Live CD/USB) * Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 13.2 - DVD/Live CD/) * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 14.04.1 DVD/USB) 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 4.2.6. (http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, 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 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 _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/announce