[clue-tech] Installfest, bring a friend.

[mike havlicek]

--- On Sun, 8/31/08, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

> From: David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
> Subject: [clue-tech] Installfest, bring a friend.
> To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 12:59 PM
> 3 weeks until installfest!  Feels like forever...
> 
> http://cluedenver.org/display.php?node=installfest
> 
> This is an invitation to you to bring a non-technical
> friend.
> 
> I don't know if we have anything to interest them
> (I'm still waiting for 
> the person who can bring Linux to the masses to speak up). 
> We can at 
> least tell them why *we* use Linux.  Or offer advice and
> troubleshooting 
> even for non-Linux systems (especially hardware problems).
> 
> If we get a good non-technical turnout it will probably be
> a complete 
> failure.  I'm willing to try though and anyone who has
> ideas is welcome 
> to come try those too.  I used a Windows machine yesterday
> and was 
> thoroughly disappointed so I'd really like people to
> have alternatives.
> 
> There is a nice view from the building so that's worth
> coming for 
> anyway.  Maybe not from Boulder...
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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A blast from the past:

http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/Install-Guide/

"Linux Installation and Getting Started" version 1.1 was one of the documents that I remember reading when I got started. I particularly like the "dark cloud" line in the preface.... I think that stuff was omitted in later versions.

-Mike