Pulls out a walker.. Why, when I was just a wee linux lad, installing linux was an huge pain in the ass.. not like these days when you can just boot from an ISO.. from a usb stick.. you needed three floppies and a zip drive!!
Then you'd accidentally "dd" your hardrive (hd0) trying to create a floppy image so you could install the ppp program!!

These days installing linux is far easier than it ever was, but there's still interesting corner cases and odd devices that getting linux installed on them can be tricky.

Tim.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 11:52 AM William Grenache via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I learn just from being on this thread but knowing the why from an install party would be fantastic. 



On Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 09:31:01 AM EDT, Kevin Harrington via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:


We haven't run an "Install-fest" in years, maybe plan a regular install Linux party?


On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 8:17 AM hammerron via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

Hi Tim,

Sorry for the late reply. To comment about a "back to basics" meeting.  I think that is a terrific idea.  I would go further to say not just one, but from time to time having more of them again also, or maybe a small portion of some meetings.  It might welcome in a wider range of members to WLUG.

Ron

On 7/29/24 09:51, Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:
Hey Everybody! We've got a meeting and a topic idea!

We've got a meeting on the 8th!

During the last couple of meetings, we've had a couple of new users come by and it was clear to me that we were going into the higher level linux concepts, many of which were flying over their heads.

I was thinking it might be really good to have a back to basics wlug meeting, where we get in get into unix philosophy, what a distro is, what parts make up a distro, common things people deal with, etc. Yeah, nah?

I'm also trying to turn a page here and start the conversation about the meeting more than say.. 2 days before the meeting so the meetings can continue to have their ruckus nature, but actually have some bit of structure!

Thanks,
Tim.

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