[Penguicon-Concom] Fwd: Linux Live CDs

[Matt Arnold]

We've handed this out at every Penguicon. I concede the point that our
boxes and boxes of nicely-packaged cardboard sleeves with Ubuntu Linux
in them need to be somewhere more public than the computer lounge.

Better yet, I'm going to be thinking some thoughtful thoughts about
how to turn this into a game, contest, or other promotional activity
at Penguicon. Join me in contemplating these contemplations, won't
you?

Penguicon CD distribution is how I got started in Linux. However, the
first time somebody at Penguicon gave me a Live CD (at Penguicon 2.0)
they had burned it wrong. It was a disk image burned as a file to CD.
So it didn't work, and I assumed I was doing something wrong; that
postponed my Linux adoption by a year.

Hands down, no question, the choice is Ubuntu. For the convincing and
reassuring professionalism of the packaging and disks (delivered
free), to the ease and "it just runs" of the software, there is no
better distro for total beginners on the Linux desktop.

-Matt


P.S. And for those who have been watching my Ubuntu installation woes
on my LJ over the past week, it's because I mistakenly downloaded the
bare-bones "alternate" version, from a server that put up the wrong
version by mistake. As if I need any further proof of the importance
of Canonical's packaged version that they will ship to your door for
free.   :P



On 10/25/07, Jessica Zerwas <twoofdtm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My good friend Damion made a suggestion that I was
> sure might be awesome to look into. I'm not sure I
> agree with the closing of the gap part, but everything
> else looked like it might be nice.
>
> "There are two distinct populations at PenguiCon: the
> Linux users, and the sci-fi fans.  (There is
> admittedly some overlap, but there are some
> definitive divisions.)  There are sci-fi fans that
> come to the conventions that would love what Linux
> could offer them if they tried it, but the
> circumstances of their life have simply not properly
> exposed them to it.  PenguiCon could solve this by
> distributing free Linux Live CDs at their room parties
> at other conventions, and on the
> give-away table at PenguiCon itself [and possibly
> other vectors as well].  The cost involved in doing
> this are simply buying blank CDs.
>     I have been attending PenguiCon since it first
> began.  I only started using Linux this summer.  I
> love Linux now, and I can guarantee that if a Linux
> Live CD had been given to me at the first
> PenguiCon [or at a room party at, say, the prior
> ConClave] then I would have been happily using Linux
> for the past 5 or 6 years instead of a mere few
> months.
> Introducing the sci-fi fans to Linux via free Live
> CDs could also help to close the gap between the two
> populations at PenguiCon.
>     Since there are many distributions of Linux,
> choosing which one to put on CDs to be distributed by
> PenguiCon needs to be considered.  The creators of
> Ubuntu Linux have invested a lot time into creating a
> Linux distribution for all humans, not just Linux
> "geeks".
>    Conveniently enough, since I saw on a flier [or
> booklet page?] at ConClave that one of the developers
> of Ubuntu Linux will be a guest-of-honor at the
> upcoming PenguiCon, Ubuntu seems like a good choice.
>     I could probably even utilize the fancy CD burner
> at my work to create some slick looking Ubuntu Linux
> CDs that include PenguiCon on the CD face.  (My boss
> _might_ want some nominal financial compensation for
> the use of that machine though.)  (If I took the time
> to learn how, I could even make it so that the desktop
> background image of the Linux operating system once it
> booted on your computer from the Live CD was an
> advertisement for Penguicon.)
>     (I wish that I had thought to suggest this whole
> idea prior to this past ConClave.)"
>
> >    - Damion
>
> *hugs*
>
> J
>
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