[AuckLUG] RE: Installing Linux

[Patrick Gildea]

>From: Martin Bähr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>
>Reply-To: Auckland Linux User Group mailing list <aucklug at linux.net.nz>
>To: Richard Innes <unclerichard at clear.net.nz>
>CC: aucklug at linux.net.nz
>Subject: Re: [AuckLUG] RE: Installing Linux
>Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 07:20:18 +0200
>
>On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:09:11PM +1200, Richard Innes wrote:
> > Someone also suggested I go to the Install Fest about which there has
> > been some controversy. I'm not entirely convinced such a approach is
> > fruitful for Linux. The adage ' Give a man a fish and he can eat for a
> > day, teach a man to fish and  he'll feed himself all year' is relevant.
> > By offering install fests is not the Linux community implying that
> > installations are for Linux Geeks and not mortal beings. It implies
> > Linux is complicated and that you better not break it or you'll be left
> > with a unusable computer? Would it not be better to show people how to
> > install Linux?
>
>but that's exactly what happens at an installfest (if the user pays
>attention and doesn't just expect someone else to do all the work)
>
>an installfest doesn't need to be: "come and we'll install it for you"
>but it can also be: "come and install, and get help when you are stuck"
>
>it is really up to the user in how much they want to learn.
>
>greetings, martin.
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I was thinking of taking along my fully working computer and just talking 
and try to learn some new things off others there.

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