<div dir="ltr"><div>CORRECTION: The BLU InstallFest is in a different room this time: E51-335. <br><br></div>Our regular room, E51-061, was not available for March 18. <br><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Jerry Feldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gaf@blu.org" target="_blank">gaf@blu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Boston Linux Installfest LXIII<br>
When: Saturday March 18, 2017, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm<br>
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061<br>
2 Amherst St, Cambridge<br>
Plenty of free parking in the parking lot in front of E-51.<br>
<a href="http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/<wbr>directions_%20parkinge51.htm</a><br>
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What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your<br>
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.<br>
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special<br>
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most<br>
distros are using Live images that you can try out and then install.<br>
This can be copied to DVDs or USB sticks.There are a number of USB<br>
creators, such as UNetbootin (<a href="https://unetbootin.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unetbootin.github.io/</a><wbr>). Both<br>
Fedora and Ubuntu have a USB creator built in.<br>
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COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are<br>
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.<br>
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Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While<br>
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and<br>
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web<br>
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own<br>
distros, our volunteers will normally have<br>
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Linux Howto Pages: <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-<wbr>INDEX/howtos.html</a><br>
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: <a href="http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq</a><br>
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.<br>
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Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and<br>
Ubuntu distributions:<br>
* Fedora - <a href="https://getfedora.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://getfedora.org/</a> (Fedora 25 Live DVD/USB)<br>
* Ubuntu - <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> ( 16.04.2 LTS DVD/USB or 16.10)<br>
* other distros can be downloaded at the Installfest<br>
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We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and<br>
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to<br>
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the<br>
distros. Live images require about 1.5GB. I usually have some USBs<br>
prepared.<br>
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We usually have both a Wired and Wireless network available.<br>
The preferred wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT". In addition John does set<br>
up a local wifi.<br>
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In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual<br>
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your<br>
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux<br>
machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 5.1.10<br>
(<a href="http://www.virtualbox.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.virtualbox.org</a>.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows<br>
10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally,<br>
there are also some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows.<br>
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Lunch is generously sponsored by Bluefin Technical Services, John Ross<br>
and Ron Thibeau<br>
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Please refer to the BLU website (<a href="http://www.blu.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.blu.org</a>) for further<br>
information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of<br>
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to<br>
your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf@blu.org">gaf@blu.org</a>><br>
Boston Linux and Unix user group<br>
<a href="http://www.blu.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.blu.org</a><br>
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PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix<br>Email <a href="mailto:jabr@blu.org" target="_blank">jabr@blu.org</a> / WWW <a href="http://www.abreau.net" target="_blank">http://www.abreau.net</a> / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6<br>PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6<br><br></div></div>
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