Linux Installfest this weekend

[ktulu]

"Anyone interested in finding out more about Linux or in installing Linux on their own machine is invited to Building 180 on the Mt Albert campus between 10am and 4pm on Saturday, according to co-convenor Richard Patterson, who says the last one held in mid 2003 was a huge success."

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/294BD9A7375B0B7CCC256E200011D97D

[=/adrenaline/=]

Anyone here of when they are going to hold a Christchurch one?

[Tiggerz]

There will be a linux delete fest the following weekend :)

[SledgY]

Followed by a BSD install fest.... :p

This could go on for a while.

[varkk]

but BSD is dying :p

try hzving a poke around here or even post somethingto one of them about a chch installfest
http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/

[henrym]

Originally posted by =/adrenaline/=
Anyone here of when they are going to hold a Christchurch one?

The Canterbury Linux Users Group (http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/) had a install fest at canterbury uni quite a while ago.

Their site doesn't seem to have been touched lately though, I suggest you try contact them.

[_N_]

sweet, this sounds interesting, I'm not gonna come along to get it installed, but I would like to learn more about it. thanks for letting me know. :)

[=/adrenaline/=]

Originally posted by Tiggerz
There will be a linux delete fest the following weekend :)

ROFLOL :)

Nice one Tiggerz :D I get the feeling you don't like Linux...

[mird-OC]

don't be silly, Tiggerz hearts anything and everything opensource, especially teh lunix.

[Ragnor]

Tiggerz hearts opensaws™ almost as much as hearts teh AMD, and that is alot of hearting!

[bob_dole_nz]

Don't forget the moderators.

Tiggerz. your opinion wasn't needed here. Heck unless you are either here to circle jerk you didn't need to say anything.

I wish I could make it to one of these. I get so gratingly far through a slackware install. only to crap myself on the final stages.

Anyone who wants to tinker with *nix should definitely turn up to one of these. You will learn a crapload. Things like xf86config and all that. Which I am slowly learning the hard way. People are willing to do this all for free. Rather than sitting there and hoarding their knoweledge in lonely mountains.

Heck, even if you don't install. Take a spindle or two of cds and grab a few of the latest distros. Never hurts to have them.

[_N_]

I went to the linux install fest,
wasn't what I expected it to be,

I came around 11am. There was 2 people have linux installed, and one person have it fixed.
basically, it was a small classroom with tables going round in circle, there was about 10 linux people there. Couple of them were ringing around trying to get someone to buy some CDR's. They had 3 demo machines, a mac which was dead, an old sgi which is equvialent to a P200, and some other old computer.
Basically, nobody came up to say, how can we help you sort of a thing, so I started asking one of the guys some questions, like, can you run a mail server of a linux machine, and he's like yeah, so I asked him, how long does it take to setup, and he's like, I started in June and I'm still not finished, :cool: I asked why, and he said, all the configuration has to be done thru a command line style and other things.., no nice wizards etc, :D
he also mentioned he still needs windows to do one thing which linux can't. We talked some more, but I wasn't really convinced that linux is worth it.

now I can sort of see what linux really is,
basically, I ask myself, what good would it be to have linux, and I can't really see any good reason apart from: free, :)

[sparkles]

n- as far as the command line settings etc go, it really depends on which distribution you use. if you look at the likes of recent efforts from redhat and mandrake pretty much everything has been wizardified (*wonders if that term will catch on*).

while i find that x has improved pretty dramatically, i personally find linux more useful as a learning tool in how operating systems and applications work.

[varkk]

I have never been to an installfest, and don't know if I ever will. I have setup a number of linux systems (Mainly Redhat) and have never run into a problem I couldn't solve without a quick internet search. (The hardest thing was getting the modem to work so I could dial the internet :p)
I use linux as a desktop everyday, very rarely do I use my windows install anymore. Now that I have got my desktop behaving in the manner I want I find the MSWin desktop very frustrating to use. By the sounds of it the people at the installfest you went to were the sad "LOLM$ISTEHSUX0R" types who make most *nix users cringe. A mail server can be setup on a new box within an afternoon with a bit of googling.

Finally as more and more game companies start to release for linux as well as win32 my need for a windows partition is dropping. I can see a time soon when I will only have linux.

[PackMule]

Originally posted by bob_dole_nz
Don't forget the moderators.

Tiggerz. your opinion wasn't needed here. Heck unless you are either here to circle jerk you didn't need to say anything.

I wish I could make it to one of these. I get so gratingly far through a slackware install. only to crap myself on the final stages.

Anyone who wants to tinker with *nix should definitely turn up to one of these. You will learn a crapload. Things like xf86config and all that. Which I am slowly learning the hard way. People are willing to do this all for free. Rather than sitting there and hoarding their knoweledge in lonely mountains.

Heck, even if you don't install. Take a spindle or two of cds and grab a few of the latest distros. Never hurts to have them.

Ew nasty. I helped out with the Auckland InstallFest before this one and it was really good. There was about 25 linux guys about, and we must have installed on about 300 machines throughout the day. I know that a number of people (including myself) couldn't make it to this InstallFest to help out.

Did anyone else from OCNZ go? Is Mark Foster still in charge of the InstallFests?

[ktulu]

Didn't think this needed it's own thread, so I put it here (kinda related).

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/BB76DDFE5D684C7DCC256E36007A14C0

"Coming to a Windows desktop near you: Unix, courtesy of our friends at Microsoft.

Services for Unix version 3.5, released last month, has some new features and a new price: free. SFU runs Unix code natively on the Windows kernel. It’s fast, powerful and you can’t argue with the price.

Microsoft describes SFU as a migration tool for Unix shops trying to make the switch to Windows, but it’s equally useful for Windows users trying to shift to ‘Nix, or for IT staff who work with both Windows and Unix machines. SFU doesn’t encourage conspiracy theories: it will be welcomed by anybody who has to use Windows and Unix, or wishes to be able to."

[XSIsoft]

and in more/other news .. not reall deserving of its own thread I think?? (spamming??)

http://neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509&category=main

2k and NT sawce codez leak :D

[Ripping]

but I wasn't really convinced that linux is worth it.

If you got a spare box at home.. its really worth checking out.
I been playing with it since RH 5.1, no expert by any means.. but I find what i need to do. (help is EVERYwhere on the web)
My Tux box is a Dell pIII733 running 2 160Gb drives. Use it solely as a server.
Thats an FTP server, an HTTP server, a file server, an MP3 server, boiled server, server and sauce, fried server, baked server, poached server, server and chips...... :)
but.. it is cheap. I got no monitor keyboard or mouse attached to Capella (the Linux box). Audio out hooks into my receiver to pipe tunes.
you wanna do stuff, you can VNC in to get a GUI desktop, or SSH in to get a console, from your main PC, its like your really there!! :).
oh, and stable too. Had a power cut with the big wind the last few days. I had just got to 118 days uptime.