Which distro are we going to install?

[Bernie Hoefer]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 02/09/2025 21.30 UTC-05:00, David Spoelstra wrote:
===
> It looks like I'll be able to make that meeting. I'll bring Ubuntu sticks
> (24.04 LTS and 25.04)!
===

David, I know I've already responded but I want to do so, again;  thank you!

As you & others have probably already saw, I've started making the announcements about October's meeting:

  https://lists.cinlug.org/pipermail/announce/2025-September/000475.html

  https://www.cinlug.org/2025/09/18/october-2025-cinlug-meeting-end-of-windows-10/

Posts to Twitter (X) and Meetup.com will come tonight, after work.

We've also had our meeting listed on the End Of 10 website for about 9 days, now:

  https://endof10.org/events/
  (Zoom in on the map, or scroll down to the CINLUG entry.)


If there are any new-to-GNU/Linux people in the audience, I'll give a very short presentation of what GNU/Linux is and how it differs from Windows.

Then I'll talk about & demonstrate Live USB / Live CD images and how they are the best way for trying out a GNU/Linux distribution.  I'll use Fedora Linux on a virtual machine -- but I'd love to have your Ubuntu going on the physical laptop (2011 Lenovo ThinkPad X120e with AMD Fusion E-350 processor and 4GiB of memory) at the same time.

CINLUG board member Dan Moeller expressed rightful concern about us doing an install on an attendee's laptop for fear of something going wrong and the person losing data.  So live USB/CD distros are what we're going to encourage.

Still, I want to at least show the installation of Fedora Linux on a machine so people can see that it will shrink the Windows 10 partition to make room for itself -- allowing one to dual boot.  Do you know, David, if an Ubuntu install will do the same thing?

Finally, I'll lead a group discussion on what applications are recommended and other tips for GNU/Linux desktop users.


Any other suggestions or thoughts for this upcoming meeting?


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iF0EARECAB0WIQQepgJdnfsiTmnUzg5yQaapRGpvkwUCaMw/4wAKCRByQaapRGpv
k+VcAJ0b4EliJE6kYcRs4VSLCJ9KXgf8ngCfeQj3s3za2gvlz566d2DEFgn2t7c=
=wBl+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----