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Linux Installfest At MIT On February 28

Posted by timothy on from the look-for-the-gentlemen-with-large-brains dept.

Bellhead ( Second-Tier Associate to the First-Tier Minion, BLU) writes "The Boston Linux & Unix User Group's 16th Linux Installfest is being held at MIT on Saturday, February 28. Linux users in and around Boston, Massachusetts will have access to expert help and tools in order to install Linux on their computers. The BLU's volunteers will help anyone who shows up and brings their computer, free of charge (they accept donations). See the BLU Website for details and directions. Information about the BLU is at http://www.blu.org."

2 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Is it really needed? by !the!bad!fish! · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Fear of change is always an issue.
    The support offered will help show some people that they don't need it.

    --
    Kids today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates 400 BC
  2. Re:Is it really needed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While the installers may be easy these days, FUD is STILL being cirlced around from the dark days of linux (2.2 kernels, text based installer, No kde, just some scary window manager and netscape and staroffice, yuck). If Linux is going to get popular, then it needs to shake off its FUD. When people, especially joe are shown in public that installing Linux is just insert cd, follow the easy instructions, and then reboot into a colourful desktop environment complete with multimedia software, office suite, games, internet and and utillities all nicely installed they are going to say, WOW, this is a 100 times easier than Windows, I am going to give all my freinds Linux cds and spread the word.

    So, I reccomend you grab your beloved fedora cds, burn a few copies of them and organize your own installfest with your family and freinds. Spread the word about Linux.

    Once the FUD barrier taken down, Linux wiont need install fests, because people can just grab a CD, and know its goigng to "just work".

    With killer software such as KDE 3.2, Kernel 2.6, OpenOffice 1.1, Xfree86 4.4, WineX 3.2, Firefox 0.8, K3b 0.11 and Gimp 2.0 Linux software is really exciting and fun to use.