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color="#ffffff">We are finally able to resurect our Linux
installfests. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><font
color="#ffffff">When: Saturday May 3, 2025, from 9:00 am to 5:00
pm<br>
Where: UMASS Boston. Room and Building to be announced. <br>
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<a
href="http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/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/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://unetbootin.github.io/</a>).
Both<br>
Fedora and Ubuntu have a USB creator built in.<br>
<br>
COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions
are<br>
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine. UMass
Boston students and faculty no cost.<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Linux Howto Pages: <a
href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html</a><br>
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: <a
href="http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq</a><br>
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most
distros.<br>
<br>
Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora,
Ubuntu, and Mint distributions on Live USB.<br>
* Fedora - <a href="https://getfedora.org/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://getfedora.org/</a>
(Fedora 42)<br>
* Ubuntu - <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.ubuntu.com</a> (
24.04LTS or 25.04)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"><font
color="#ffffff"> * Linux Mint - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://linuxmint.com/">https://linuxmint.com/</a>
(22.1) </font><br>
<div><font color="#ffffff"> * other distros can easily be
downloaded at the Installfest<br>
<br>
We generally have them on local drives and can burn USBs.</font></div>
<div><font color="#ffffff">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>
<br>
We usually have both a Wired and Wireless network available.<br>
<br>
<br>
Additionally, 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<br>
system, but you can also download and install VirtualBox 6.0<br>
(<a href="http://www.virtualbox.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.virtualbox.org</a>)
which is free and is available for Linux, and Windows<br>
<br>
<br>
Please refer to the BLU website (<a href="http://www.blu.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.blu.org</a>) for
further<br>
information and directions. <br clear="all">
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"><font color="#ffffff">--
Jerry Feldman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com"><gaf.linux@gmail.com></a>
Boston Linux and Unix <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blu.org">http://www.blu.org</a>
PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7
PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7
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