[GNUz] GNU/Linux support Weds 7.30pm

[Rik Tindall]

Hi all, monthly notice, September 5.

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 18 Sept.)

Thank you for the support of this workshop and the Software Freedom Day 
annual installfest event; this Weds is the organising session.

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