sorry, i missed this too. i'm living out at oxford...but my linux skills are pretty basic - being an "older" windows convert with a gentoo installation last year. at present i'm dual booting between suse & gentoo. i can lend a hand if needed - i probably can lay my hands on a couple of older boxes that i have living out in the back cow shed if needed too. howard
On Thursday 20 April 2006 07:14, Rik Tindall wrote: > +/- > > Rik Tindall wrote: > > Zane Gilmore wrote: > >> just got a phone call from a high school teacher in Oxford. > >> He says he has a bunch of young geeks that are interested in Linux > >> and wanted some advice on how to get them started. > > > > - I'll ring that teacher back this Wednesday Zane. > > Never got to do that yet, sorry.. > > Because we had 2 new Linuxers in the Green Room: > Installed a Toshi w/Ubuntu & am happy to say I tested the auto-partition > option for the first time, which squashed WinME into 3GB+ (without my > defragmenting 1st, & it still runs) and gave 6GB+ for Ubuntu & Swap. One > happy new user. The other will be installed next week, after we check > specs & maybe shop for a cheap better box. > > So, the politics of free/open are a proven selling point now. But the > main one we can build trade on, I believe, is productivity - time > recovered from anti-virus monitoring, more efficient desktop > organisation, quicker copy/paste action,.. (those are my top three > reasons for never returning to M$-land; others may have more). But > businesses really do stand to gain, with KDE/Gnome of a standard to win > many more converts now. > > Anyway, to our twice-monthly *nix public interfaces, we can definately > add this weekly, Wednesdays 10am-2pm 'free shopfront': 16 Bedford Row. > The vision: a *nix recycling plant & netcafe, step by step.. > > If you can't ring back & refer that teacher on to us Zane, I'll try for > 1st task next Weds again. > > Cheers,
