[Penguicon-Concom] Fwd: Linux Live CDs

[Matt Arnold]

I'm sorry, but what about it?
-Matt

On 10/29/07, audrey geiger <audreygirl01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about blank labels, and a sharpie?
>
>
> On 10/25/07, Dan DeSloover <zifferent at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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