From vpevents@digital-liberation.ca Thu Mar 31 14:39:15 2005 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:39:08 -0700 From: Adam Wolfe Gordon To: Bruce Sass Subject: Re: Liberating Students Digitally Installfest >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Adam Wolfe Gordon wrote: >> >> Liberating Students Digitally (LSD), a student group at the University >> of Alberta, will be holding their first installfest of 2005 on Friday >> and Saturday, April 8 and 9, 2005. The event will be held in the >> Solarium of the ETLC building, located in the north-west corner of the >> main U of A campus. Installations will take place between 10AM and >> 7PM, and those wishing to take part are asked to bring their computers >> and any other hardware they'd like to make sure is working. Visit our >> website at http://www.digital-liberation.ca for more information. > Bruce Sass wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the tip. > > Which flavours of Linux will you be installing or supporting? What are > the minimum hardware requirements for an install? Will you be helping > configure or fix existing systems if they are brought in? Will > registration or scheduling be used to organize installs? > > > - Bruce Thanks for the quick reply. Ubuntu's new release, Hoary, will be our "default" distro (for users who don't know what they want), but we will have a number of Linux distros on hand (SuSe, Fedora, Slack, etc) as well as BSD to accommodate special requests. We haven't discussed fixing existing systems, but if we're not busy and someone comes by with a problem, we'll be happy to fix it. I'm hoping that we'll have a registration system up on our website next week, but we will be open to drop-in installs as well. -- Adam Wolfe Gordon VP Events, Liberating Students Digitally vpevents@digital-liberation.ca [Note: the previous Ubuntu install suggested 32M of RAM and from 350M to 1.8G of HDD space, I would not expect that to have changed by much. bms]