On 09/08/11 15:04, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:55:26 Rik Tindall wrote: >> Link-notes re 17 Sept SFD11 event to share with FOSS friends: >> >> http://bethere.co.nz/community/2011/2809-software-freedom-day-09 >> >> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/NewZealand/Christchurch/SouthLibrary >> >> http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd11.html > Is anyone else on the list wanting to do something a little further North? If > a few other people can give the places for alternative events I'm keen on > helping as much as possible. > > I vote Rangiora Library as a venue. It's fairly large, already has a few Linux > manuals on the primise and the general area could do with something of their > own.
Good idea Ryan. Can you please check with Rangiora Library, and see what sort of facility we could have there for SFD? i.e. Is a PC lab available, or can we have a table with a power point indoors, etc. etc. I may be able to help you find some people to work with on 17 Sept, SFD11. On a related note, I have been trialling a few alternative O/S's for SFD11 use. Platform: Duron 700MHz, 500MB RAM, 5 out of 20GB hdd for root partition /. Xubuntu doesn't update well (so is gone), and I'm looking at what could still deliver the classic GNOME (-like), pre-Unity (Ubuntu) desktop environment. So I'm quite impressed with "Google Chrome OS Linux": using June the release candidate. Is anyone on CLUG here liking it too? OpenSuse runs very well in delivering Chrome OS, with YAST2 seeming much more robust than when I first tried Suse a few years ago. Updates keep improving the install, GNOME is how I want it, and the Chrome browser is the very latest "15... dev" version; whereas this Ubuntu 10.10 install I write from now has Chrome 13.0.782.112. Main 'glitch' is that more user brainpower is expected for OpenSuse, with some complex configuration tools. A 'bootloader could not be installed because of the way the partitions are set up' error stumped YAST/me on several runs. But I overcame that by installing Lubuntu on another 5GB partition, which sorted out GRUB immediately. Scorecard on space used: Chrome OS - 2.6GB; Lubuntu 10.04 - 1.4GB (from memory); that indicates which might survive the longest on restricted space. Lubuntu could be quicker too. Have fun. -- Kind regards, Rik Tindall pp www.SoftwareFreedomDay.org Team Christchurch 17-September-2011 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
