September 5th meeting - distro night

[Padraic Harley]

Hey all,

For the first meeting back after Summer (September 5th), I'd like to
suggest some manner of distro night installfest. I believe those are
current buzzwords for this area...

Anyway, people bring in their favourite GNU/Linux/BSD/whatever distros
so anyone can have a go at them, either via straight install or in a VM.

I can bring varied Ubuntu discs, thumb drives and .iso files, along with
versions of Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and Damn Vulnerable Linux to
name a few but the more people the better.

I want to try Herd and Arch in particular for myself but can be
convinced to look at others.

Meeting from 7pm in 091 Labs, everyone throws in �1 and then to a pub at
9/10pm?

There might be complete newbies there so if there are people who are
willing to help me with explaining how to partition a hard drive or run
VirtualBox, etc I'd appreciate it!

Any suggestions, thoughts or ideas?

Cheers,
Padraic

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[Gerard Ryan]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:24:23PM +0100, Padraic Harley wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>For the first meeting back after Summer (September 5th), I'd like to
>suggest some manner of distro night installfest. I believe those are
>current buzzwords for this area...
>
>Anyway, people bring in their favourite GNU/Linux/BSD/whatever
>distros so anyone can have a go at them, either via straight install
>or in a VM.
>
>I can bring varied Ubuntu discs, thumb drives and .iso files, along
>with versions of Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and Damn Vulnerable
>Linux to name a few but the more people the better.
>
>I want to try Herd and Arch in particular for myself but can be
>convinced to look at others.
>

>Meeting from 7pm in 091 Labs, everyone throws in €1 and then to a pub

>at 9/10pm?
>
>There might be complete newbies there so if there are people who are
>willing to help me with explaining how to partition a hard drive or
>run VirtualBox, etc I'd appreciate it!
>
>Any suggestions, thoughts or ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>Padraic
>
>--
>Padraic Harley
>
>Phone: +353 (0)85 213 8803
>Email: paurict...@gmail.com
>Tweet: @pauricthelodger
>

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Sounds good to me. I like the idea that if we're using 091 Labs for
meeting in, that each person makes a small donation like that. I'll be
sure to bring a selection of Fedora media, including the one I did for
GSOC this year. :D

I think giving people the option of doing either a full install, or
installing in a VM might be a good idea.

If anyone has spare external drive space, to make backups for people
beforehand, that might be a good idea.

Also, is this going to be advertised/promoted to people who don't
currently use free operating systems? If so, how are we going about
that?

Thanks for kicking this off Padraic!

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[Padraic Harley]

Le bump!

Any objections, agreements or improvements to the Distro Night idea?

Otherwise, I'll assume it's the best idea and will stick it around the
place!

Cheers,
Padraic

On 22/08/12 17:50, Gerard Ryan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 05:24:23PM +0100, Padraic Harley wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> For the first meeting back after Summer (September 5th), I'd like to
>> suggest some manner of distro night installfest. I believe those are
>> current buzzwords for this area...
>>
>> Anyway, people bring in their favourite GNU/Linux/BSD/whatever
>> distros so anyone can have a go at them, either via straight install
>> or in a VM.
>>
>> I can bring varied Ubuntu discs, thumb drives and .iso files, along
>> with versions of Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux and Damn Vulnerable
>> Linux to name a few but the more people the better.
>>
>> I want to try Herd and Arch in particular for myself but can be
>> convinced to look at others.
>>

>> Meeting from 7pm in 091 Labs, everyone throws in �1 and then to a pub

[Nicola Di Marzo]

Good to hear from you! Count me in!
I'll bring my laptop with 3 distros installed: Fedora16, Ubuntu 10.04,
Ubuntu Studio 12.04.
I also use Fedora for virtualizations with Virtualbox (Centos 6.3,
Debian 6 already virtualized),but i'm absolutely not a virtual guru...
I'll also bring with me usb-keys and cd's.

p.s. i'm a new lpic-1 certified :-). now heading to lpic-2, another long
journey is waiting for me...

"Happiness only real when shared"
C. J. McCandless

[Padraic Harley]

Awesome! See you then Nicola =)

And congrats on the lpic! =D

Going to make the night BYOB so grab your finest gutrot and have a few
pints in the Labs!

- padraic

[Gerard Ryan]

>>>>>Meeting from 7pm in 091 Labs, everyone throws in €1 and then

Cool stuff, I dropped the link to the blog post you made to the iLUG
IRC, and told them to share.