Hi all, monthly notice, August 1.
Wednesday night is the GNU/Linux Users' workshop: 7.30pm-9.30pm in the
South Learning Centre (SLC), through rear door of South Christchurch
Library at 66 Colombo Street, Cashmere -
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/locations/SOUTH/ - held on the
first Wednesday monthly, Feb-Dec.
LiveDVD/thumbdrive installs of freenix* operating system distributions
are used to demonstrate alternative desktop environments, in the SLC
computer lab of i5 PCs
Ubuntu-MATE is the Debian GNU/Linux variant we most display and Long
Term Support releases like 18.04 are recommended, though rolling
upgrades (to 18.10 next) tend to run fastest with very latest kernel
drivers and software incorporated. Both are up-to-date, secure, and will
run well on a lot of old equipment to extend its life. See
http://debian.org background and http://ubuntu-mate.org/download/ for
these distros and http://distrowatch.com for a great many others to
choose from. Portable devices welcome, esp. laptops.
BYO distributions and any new tech as you like; overhead projector -
let us know if you have a presentation to offer.
Noting interest in https://linux.conf.au - "The Linux of Things"
conference, 21-25 Jan'19, University of Canterbury, Chch NZ -
registrations open.
Noting also our local workshop now runs twice monthly, same venue and
time, with the third Tuesday night monthly focused on Android Linux
phone etc management (next is 21 Aug.)
Thank you for the support of this workshop and the Software Freedom Day
annual installfest event.
Kind regards,
Rik Tindall
pp Sydenham GNU/Linux Users
http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz
Software Freedom Day, Team Christchurch South, 15-September-2018
http://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD
* Freenix: Unix-derived Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) esp. Linux
& BSD
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