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Hey, > Mike (Stinga) and I had a splendid chat with Stephen Roddha at Penzance > Computers in his icafe. He is happy to host an event on a Sunday in > September Awesome, I'd love to attend (fingers crossed for being in cornwall/back being in decent nick)... > > He is happy with the publicity that would inevitably come out of the > event, as we will undoubtedly get coverage in the local newspaper (the > Cornishman, perhaps West Briton and Western Morning News) the local > radio (Atlantic, BBC Cornwall and Pirate FM) and who knows, TV. He is > even happy to contribute to costs and press his business partner, who is > a graphics artist, into action. Would be great to get some publicity like this - might open up opportunities for future meets/introducing people to linux. > >We also think a follow-up/second session > would be good a couple of weeks later. The last bit of this I think is a very good idea, that way anybody who does install and runs into trouble can get some help fairly soon. > There would have to be a useful handout covering essentials such as > backup, prune and defragment before repartitioning; > resume of the steps involved in installing, updating etc; > solving hardware issues with a best practice recommended before laying > out on new hardware (like using a router; checking lists of supported > hardware - NB the lists of printers supported in Ubuntu and Suse are > impressive); are they not for all distros? The support is mostly from CUPS I think, which is standard...good news :D A hand out like this would be good though, I guess it would quickly turn into an "Introduction to Linux", which would be great to put on the web as I'm sure thousands of people would find a piece like this very useful. I'd be happy to help with this. > making a rescue disc (or having a second live distro like Knoppix?); > different distros available and some idea of the best first step (IMHO > the best introduction is actually Ubuntu, with the proviso that once > they feel confident, there are many other options to learn about); I think, if you're taking suggestions, Fedora and OpenSuse are both just as easy to use as Ubuntu; especially as both these examples have a lot more gui system configs...There's also all the stuff like PCLinuxOS, SimplyMepis etc but I have no experience with these. > links to supported hardware; > links to online tutorials; > links to online support. Also a cool idea :D This could all be fitted onto the disc I expect with a few simple steps; I have experience with adding extras to live cds and could help here too. > > There was a question about how reliable repartitioning for a dual boot > would be, but having done this myself twice with different distros, and > having used the gui of Gparted after an install, without problems, I > maybe have misplaced confidence. What do you think is best for someone > completely new, interested in the possibility of using GNU/Linux? I've never had any problems with this, but like Rob said, backup and other precautions are essential as you can never be certain! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html