Even tho I personally cannot get home safely from either east or west side meetings due to riding a bike/bus...mostly due bus schedules into Downtown Scottsdale, I think the following item by Stu would get me VERY interested. I too, need some 'coaching' via informative type meetings to do much more than just install whatever is on the cd's and then stumble around. I have a messed up Mepis install that is 'limping' along and have forgotten what I did to mess it up! This is being written from a knoppix 3.6 release live cd and 2.6.7 kernal. Just because I happen to have that running, the Mepis is the usual version I am on. I guess I am in the 'middle' between a serious linux user home user and a 'fraidy cat' type. I really wish I had a close friend to help me break thru in understanding some of the stuff he mentiones. --- stu wrote: > Just as a suggestion, I think there's a need to > attract more new users to > these meetings. One way to do that might to take a > closer look at some of the > newer desktop distros aimed at the typical windows > user, like MEPIS and > UBUNTU. I currently run MEPIS on my HP Laptop, and > UBUNTU running on a > desktop, and I'm hard pressed to say which one I > like more. Both of them are > of DEBIAN variety, fast, secure, and they are > incredibly easy to load, > update, and add packages to. Even easier than > windows, IMHO, (The only thing > I miss is "Clippy" reminding me I only have "X" days > left to register my > software before it goes belly-up!). > I love this stuff! I've been using it exclusively > for over a year now, and I > still barely know what I'm doing! > I realize the meetings are aimed at more > professional users, but I think the > Pros will follow with a growing base of home, SOHO, > and casual internet > users. > If you can get people interested in using *any* > Linux OS, there would also be > a lot of growing interest in meetings about > archiving .tar, .bz files, home > networking (which is almost automatic with MEPIS), > getting xine and gmplayer > to read DVD and .wmv files, and migrating to Linux > apps like Firefox, Gimp, > Blender, Open Office, and all the other types of > (free) software people would > like to have on their windows machines, but cant > afford to pay for. > Most of the people I talk to have an interest in > trying Linux, but they're so > used to running windows they're "afraid to learn a > whole new OS", or they > seem to think their computers will implode if they > try out any of the Live > CDs I hand out to them. If they had a chance to > learn just a little, and try > it out risk free, they might jump into it like I > did. > Would this be a direction PLUG would be willing to > take? > > Stu > > On Monday 11 April 2005 08:51, G Gambill wrote: > > Does anyone have a topic they would be willing to > talk about (maybe > > facilitate - or hear about) at this months West > Side meeting? > > > > One thought of mine is to start defining the > direction of the west side > > meetings. > > > > Thanks, > > > > George > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > Cyclists should expect and demand safe accommodation on our public roads, just as does every other user. Nothing more is expected. Nothing less is acceptable! Long live Knoppix!! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss