Re: [LUG] Not for profit group

[paul sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes and if they upgrade to XP then at some point MS will stop supporting 
that,  and drop users in it again,  now if even if we give them an old 
copy of Linux using kernel 2.4, the community will still support them, 
even when kernel 2.8 and kernel 3.0 is released, the community value users,

Sounds like a good opportunity,  to promote Linux,  and open source 
benefits.

if I was to arrange a meeting for this we probably need to get together 
sooner rather than later, to kick things off, at the rugby club (unless 
someone can get somewhere better) when would be the best date in January 
or Feb

Club open Tues, Wed, Thurs, which according to my diary would be the 
following dates

Tues            Wed             Thurs
10               11                12
17               18               19  
24               25               26
31

Feb

Tues      Wed         Thurs
               1            2
7               8            9
14            15            16
21            22            23
28th

Last of feb 20 - 24 th is 1/2 term

Let me know and I will book it,  unless as I said we can find a 
different venue,

Paul

Simon Waters wrote:

> Paul Sutton wrote:
>  
>
> > They are using Windows 98 
> >    
>
> The hackers diary at the SANS institute notes that the WMF vulnerability
> is a "watershed momemt" for people with 95/98/ME as this is a
> vulnerability caused by viewing an image that Microsoft do not intend to
> patch on these OSes.
>
> Perhaps we should agree a standard 'low resource' GNU/Linux install for
> such machines? Or perhaps it is better people just upgrade, people give
> away machines more than capable of running modern GNU desktops.
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