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paul sutton wrote:
Rhia Knowles wrote:good idea, i am usually free during the week, but would bve worriedf about my new netbook getting damaged,You guys give me an idea. Has anyone a supply of official looking Ubuntu disks? You know, not the obviously burned onto a cdr type? Just thinking if the LUG could stage an Ubuntu day at the college (South Devon College). They had demo tastings of Ubuntu Cola today and that + this conversation made me think it might be possible to talk to the Student Liason team who usually arrange these kinda things. The reason I mention official looking disks is, given the ignorance shown by computer services, i suspect they will see cdrs and assume piracy. Issues: Would need to be in the week daytime to hit the largest number of students. Would need people who could interest the kiddies, with a couple of laptops to demo it with. All those Expensive disks we might end up giving out. If we want Wifi someone would need to negotiate access to the open Wifi whitelist since Linux wont run the Cisco Clean Agent they use to ensure Windows is 100% up to date, AV'd and patched. Pro: Showing the kiddies that Windows is not the one true path, plus maybe a bit of 'try this in your laptop, see for yourself...' Thoughts? I offer my services as woman on the spot to talk to college and see what the issues are on their side.I am happy to help out, can the college supply some PC's we can set up with ubuntu on so we can demo ?i thin 20 cd's cost about £20 from the ubuntu shop I am not sure if they are giving away lots of cd's any more, i did read that was stopping, there could be exceptions to the new policy if this exists.
You can do better than that! Burn 2 cd's with ubuntu and ubunut minimal installInstall 1 computer with Ubuntu - and set up APT-NG repository cache: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/apt-cacher-ng-http-download-proxy-for-software-packages.html Install another machine with ubuntu minimal (20 meg so shouldnt take long) modify it to use the above installed cache, set up grade working, move onto the next. I havent tried to upgrade the minimal install this way but on 100Meg network it should install the upgrades a lot faster that loading from a cd - and look pretty impressive as well.
I'd practise this at home but I'm lazy.. Tom te tom te tom
what age group do you mean by kiddies exactly. I anm sure I can keep under 5's happy with tux paint, under 10's with something like frozen bubble or tux racer, but teenagers may require something a bit more impressive.Paul
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