[MakeLV] linux interest

[Will]

Well I'll admit, Linux would require a separate night and most LUG chapters
work on a monthly basis. Most of the time LUG chapters have a presentation
followed by a round table discussion. Speaking about different distro's
usually starts a flame war more vibrant than that of the emacs and vim
battles (vim is better btw). Most of the presentations I have seen have
ranged from Coreboot (which was awesome, given to our local chapter by a
NetBSD developer), to installing Android on a Netbook (2 years ago).

Most of the LUG meetings happen during the week, and all the ones I've been
too involved dinner and beer afterwards.  Great starting topics with Linux
are dealing with virtualization, discussions of package managers, compiling
from source intro's (can be avoided but nice to know in this day and age!),
FOSS models and hierarchies, software releases into FOSS, and mostly how a
group of people come and justify putting more into their computers rather
than just buying it off the shelf (M$).

I need to build a new linux environment so I will whip up a guide on how to
use virtual box and start playing with either debian or ubuntu.
Bill, Dave, Will, feel free to check out https://www.virtualbox.org/.
Essentially it shows you how to run an operating system inside of a window.
You can literally have a window with another microsoft windows OS running,
or Ubuntu, or even MacOS if you're willing to hack it enough.

-Will

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:11 AM, William Weik <wweik at lutron.com> wrote:

> I’ve always been interested in Linux distros, but never really got around
> to tinkering with it. Since time seems to be tight for some people would it
> be easier if the instead of every week it was potentially biweekly or
> monthly. Thoughts?****
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> *From:* makelehighvalley-bounces at makelehighvalley.com [mailto:
> makelehighvalley-bounces at makelehighvalley.com] *On Behalf Of *Bill Heffner
> *Sent:* Friday, May 18, 2012 1:24 AM
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> *Subject:* [MakeLV] linux interest****
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> Like Dave, I definitely have the interest in learning how to convert an
> old PC to Linix but insufficient time to commit a 2nd night.  Already not
> possible to make every Thursday.  But please count me in as interested.
> And thanks Will for remembering this.
> Bill
>
> On 5/17/2012 4:42 PM, Will wrote: ****
>
> In the interest of the space.... should we start a Linux Users Group?
> LVLUG at all? I know there is one around the area.... sort of but I think
> it would be great for system administrators to come together. I know I
> would enjoy a group like that (and have in the past). It seems that we have
> Randy, Tom, Josh, and Josiah as fellow platform enlightened people. I think
> it would be great for the space and for people like Bill and Dave to whom
> expressed interest previously in learning how to use Linux.  ****
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> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> wrote:*
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> On Thursday 17 May 2012 02:04:32 pm Will wrote:
> > Final thought, would anyone be interested in a simple way to be
> introduced
> > to linux without fully committing their computer. Please respond on the
> > list because I know there is some interest.****
>
> I'm already fully committed to Linux, but I'm interested in hearing what
> you
> (or anyone else) has to suggest--there are others I would like to convert
> to
> Linux.
>
> Randy Kramer
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