When: Saturday May 3, 2025, from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm EDT
Where: UMASS Boston. CS CCS Conference Room 3rd floor McCormack Building
a short walk from The Campus Center.
Park in the Campus Center garage or take the UMASS shuttle bus from the
JFK/UMass station on the MBTA Red Line. This bus goes to The Campus
Center. Please see https://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2025-ifest72 for
more detailed directions and maps.
What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live images that you can try out and then install.
This can be copied to DVDs or USB sticks.There are a number of USB
creators, such as UNetbootin (https://unetbootin.github.io/). Both
Fedora and Ubuntu have a USB creator built in.
COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine. UMass Boston
students and faculty no cost.
Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have
Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.
Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, Ubuntu, and
Mint distributions on Live USB.
* Fedora - https://getfedora.org/ (Fedora 42)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 24.04LTS or 25.04)
* Linux Mint - https://linuxmint.com/ (22.1)
* other distros can easily be downloaded at the Installfest
We generally have them on local drives and can burn USBs.
Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. Live images require about 1.5GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared or can easily burn a USB.
We usually have both a Wired and Wireless network available.
Additionally, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. Linux has a built-in virtual memory
system, but you can also download and install VirtualBox 6.0
(http://www.virtualbox.org) which is free and is available for Linux,
and Windows
Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions.
--
Jerry Feldman<gaf.linux@gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unixhttp://www.blu.org
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