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 <
wien33@cox.net> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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