[Penguicon-Concom] Fwd: Linux Live CDs

[Dan DeSloover]

I hesitate to state how that is funny, but it does make much more sense 
now. Yes, you downloaded the server version, oops.

It's not unrecoverable. Just a pain in the butt.

Matt Arnold wrote:
> 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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