[brlug-newbies] Fwd: May 7th Linux Desktop SIG Workshop

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Just a reminder:

Ed


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Subject: [brlug-newbies] May 7th Linux Desktop SIG Workshop
Date: 04/25/2007 09:53 am
From: edslinuxbox at cox.net
To: linuxsig at lists.clickers.org
Cc: newbies at brlug.net

Greetings All,

The Linux Day Open House was a huge success, especially considering the
 severe weather that we had Friday nite and Saturday morning. We had about 40
 people that registered for the open house and I think the event resulted in
 4 new Clickers memberships and a significant number of new members to the
 Linux Desktop Special Interest Group. We gave away 9 copies of Xandros Home
 Edition and 2 copies of Xandros Desktop 4 Professional. Thanks to Xandros
 Corporation for donating these excellent door prizes. Thanks to everyone
 that helped with this great event and a special thanks to Larry for coming
 up with the idea and to Ms. Marie for baking the excellent home made sheet
 cakes for refreshments.

The next SIG workshop will be held on Monday May 7th, 2007 at 6 PM in the
 Computer Lab. This workshop will be an InstallFest to help the new SIG
 members get Xandros installed on their computer and to address any
 installation issues, both operating system, software and hardware, that
 anyone may have. To have Linux installed, bring just "the box". We don't
 need your mouse, keyboard or monitor. If you wish to continue to use Windows
 along with Linux, prior to the InstallFest, you will need to boot into
 Windows Safe Mode and run both scandisk and defrag. If you have time, run
 them both several times. We also recommend that you back up your Windows
 installation prior to the InstallFest. If you don't know how to do this, we
 can help you with it during the InstallFest, but please let us know early
 that you need this done as it takes additional time. If you want a DVD copy
 of your Windows installation, please bring sufficient blank DVD+R disks with
 you.

 Xandros, along with many other desktop distributions, has optioned to only
 offer the latest version of their Open Circulation Edition as a DVD ISO. The
 commercial versions continue to be offered on CD media. This means that if
 you don't have a DVD drive in your machine, you can not install the latest
 version of the Open Circulation Edition. If you don't have a DVD drive, we
 will help you install version 3.0.2 of the Open Circulation Edition. If you
 wish to add a DVD ROM/RW drive to your machine, pick one up and we will help
 you install it along with the Linux installation.

The Xandros 4.1 Open Circulation Edition has not yet been formally released,
 but they let the forum moderators download a pre-release copy, which is what
 we will be using for the InstallFest. If you wish to have a copy, bring a
 blank DVD+R disk with you in exchange for a burned copy with a nice
 customized label, in a disk sleve. I will have 10 copies available.

There will also be 10 copies of the Xandros 3.0.2 Open Circulation Edition
 available. If you want one of those, bring a blank CD-R to exchange for it.

If you wish to install a version of Linux other than Xandros, please download
 the ISO, burn it to the appropriate media and bring it with you. You can
 browse the many various Linux distributions that are available at Distro
 Watch.

http://distrowatch.com

Veteran SIG members are encouraged to come and help us with the InstallFest.
 I look forward to seeing everyone at the InstallFest.

Ed Richards

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