Hi all, monthly notice, August 4.
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. N.B. Covid-19 tracing app QR-code is
at all council public facilities.
LiveCD/DVD installs of freenix* operating system distributions are used
to demonstrate alternative desktop environments, in the SLC computer
lab. N.B. USB memory stick thumbdrive boot access is no longer
available.
Ubuntu-MATE is the Debian GNU/Linux variant we most display and Long
Term Support releases like 20.04 are recommended, though rolling
upgrades (like April's release 21.04 most recently out) 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 ageing 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 other variants to choose from.
Portable devices welcome, esp. laptops, Android phones etc.
BYO distributions and any new tech you like; overhead projector and
large wall screen - let us know if you have a presentation to offer.
This meeting will be available online via the
https://jitsi.org/GNUz-Otautahi connection.
Looking forward to seeing you there. Thank you for the support of these
workshops.
Kind regards,
Rik Tindall
pp Sydenham GNU/Linux Users
http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/gnuz
Software Freedom Day, Team Christchurch South, 18-September-2021
* Freenix: Unix-derived Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) esp. Linux
& BSD
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