<div dir="auto">The police have memorial drive closed all morning and there is no way we can access MIT building e-51</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 11:19 AM Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Boston Linux Installfest LXX<br>
When: Saturday July 27, 2019, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm<br>
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061<br>
2 Amherst St, Cambridge<br>
<a href="http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm</a><br>
Parking is free at the E-51 lot in front of the building.<br>
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Lunch is generously sponsored by Ron Thibeau owner of Bluefin Technical<br>
Services<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 noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unetbootin.github.io/</a>). 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html</a><br>
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: <a href="http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq" rel="noreferrer 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">https://getfedora.org/</a> (Fedora 30 Live DVD/USB)<br>
* Ubuntu - <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> ( 18.04.1 LTS DVD/USB or 19.04)<br>
* other distros can easily 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 or can easily burn a USB.<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. Linux has a built-in virtual memory system, but you can also download and install <br>
VirtualBox 6.0 (<a href="http://www.virtualbox.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.virtualbox.org</a>) which 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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Please refer to the BLU website (<a href="http://www.blu.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.blu.org</a>) for further<br>
information and directions. There is a parking lot in front of<br>
the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator<br>
your left down to the basement. Room 016 is directly across from the elevator.<br>
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-- <br>
Jerry Feldman <<a href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gaf.linux@gmail.com</a>><br>
Boston Linux and Unix <a href="http://www.blu.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.blu.org</a><br>
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