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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Old USB Sticks - don't throw them away yet! (Sebastian)
2. Re: August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :)
(Philip Jensen)
3. Re: August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :) (Sebastian)
4. Re: August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :) (Sebastian)
5. Re: August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :)
(Philip Jensen)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:05:32 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Old USB Sticks - don't throw them away yet!
Message-ID: <521377AC.8010506@gmx.com>
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On 20/08/13 13:57, Peter Hemmings wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In case we have some form of "Install Fest" next year, can I suggest
> that you keep any old sticks that could possibly be used.
>
> We have about 200 members, if only one in four has a spare would be
> enough for a reasonable event.
>
> With the absence of anything specific I thought we (or me) could at
> least just copy live OS's to 2 or 4 GB sticks, find a venue and
> advertise the event when support for XP finishes.
>
> I thought it would be a good time to think about a supply of sticks
> even for just a basic event!
>
> Regards
>
Yes sounds good :).

Maybe I can come back from FOSDEM ( http://fosdem.org ) 2014 in Brussels
next year with quite a lot of Mageia 4 Live CD's etc to use for an idea
:), also what's nice about the Mageia 4 release is how it's released
before the XP end of life rather than after it like Ubuntu and Mint for
example. However what's also nice about it is how it's going to be a
FOSDEM 2014 release :):
http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-meeting/2013/mageia-meeting.2013-06-24-19.13.html
http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-meeting/2013/mageia-meeting.2013-06-24-19.13.log.html

On the subject of next year and this idea here are some relevant dates
and links :):

Saturday 1st February 2014 Mageia 4 Final Release, with the release
being a FOSDEM 2014 release!:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_4_Development
https://blog.mageia.org/en/2013/07/22/mageia-4-already/

The end of Microsoft's Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 support Tuesday
April 8th 2014!: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/endofsupport.aspx

Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support Release Thursday 24th April 2014.

The Linux Mint version based on Ubuntu 14.04 probably May 2014.

Of course the above dates may change.

On the subject of USB sticks 50 or so card sized Mageia USB sticks sold
at the Mageia stand at FOSDEM this year. I didn't buy any though, since
didn't really know what was being sold until later, but basically
someone made their own card sized ones and sold them. Of course with an
install fest type idea we wouldn't be selling any install USB's.

By the way I hope you didn't mind me replying, I realise that was more
for other people, and are you coming along to this Saturday's LUG
meeting? :)




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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:29:20 +0100
From: Philip Jensen <hat.tie.jacket@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :)
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On 19 Aug 2013 21:41, "Sebastian" <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> It's nearly that time again :) for another BBLUG meeting :) this Saturday
the 24th :). However this time round it's the August one, and I thought it
was quite good last year, because of interesting visitors :). I hope there
will be a good turn out for this years :) of at least five people other
than myself. However the big question is: Who is planning on being there
other than myself? :)
>
> I am hoping to meet more than just regulars this Saturday with also
hopefully some people who don't tend to come often :), and ideally
hopefully some new people as well :).
>
<snip>
>
> I hope to meet more of you this Saturday :).
>
> Sebastian
>
>

As one of the afore mentioned new people, I'd like to be there but I'm
going to be cycling to Bath with my girlfriend.

So instead I'll do the introduction I was going to do afterwards.

I'm a 3rd year chemical engineering student from the university of
Manchester, currently on a year placement at Rolls-Royce in Filton.

I run a #! Eeepc 1000, a Debian Sheeva plug I'm trying to save from ennui
and a Nexus 4 I've been meaning to put CyanogenMod on. Last weekend I
picked up a RasberryPi and have been setting up RetroPi.

I have more projects I'd like to do, than you could shake a stick at but
I'm trying to be better about documenting and completing them.

I'm sorry I'm not going to be there, but I won't miss September's.

Philip
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:53:10 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: [bristol] August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :)
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On 20/08/13 15:29, Philip Jensen wrote:
>
>
> On 19 Aug 2013 21:41, "Sebastian" <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com
> <mailto:sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > It's nearly that time again :) for another BBLUG meeting :) this
> Saturday the 24th :). However this time round it's the August one,
> and I thought it was quite good last year, because of interesting
> visitors :). I hope there will be a good turn out for this years :)
> of at least five people other than myself. However the big question
> is: Who is planning on being there other than myself? :)
> >
> > I am hoping to meet more than just regulars this Saturday with also
> hopefully some people who don't tend to come often :), and ideally
> hopefully some new people as well :).
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > I hope to meet more of you this Saturday :).
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
> >
>
> As one of the afore mentioned new people, I'd like to be there but I'm
> going to be cycling to Bath with my girlfriend.
>
> So instead I'll do the introduction I was going to do afterwards.
>
> I'm a 3rd year chemical engineering student from the university of
> Manchester, currently on a year placement at Rolls-Royce in Filton.
>
Nice :).
>
> I run a #! Eeepc 1000, a Debian Sheeva plug I'm trying to save from
> ennui and a Nexus 4 I've been meaning to put CyanogenMod on. Last
> weekend I picked up a RasberryPi and have been setting up RetroPi.
>
> I have more projects I'd like to do, than you could shake a stick at
> but I'm trying to be better about documenting and completing them.
>
> I'm sorry I'm not going to be there, but I won't miss September's.
>
Ok Saturday 28th September is the next one after this Saturday's, and
hope to meet you there :).

By the way what distro/s do you use for standard Desktop Linux if you do
that? :)
>
> Philip
>
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:56:45 +0100
From: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>
To: Sebastian <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com>, Bristol and Bath Linux User
Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :)
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>
> By the way what distro/s do you use for standard Desktop Linux if you
> do that? :)

and why?




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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:28:33 +0100
From: Philip Jensen <hat.tie.jacket@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] August 2013 BBLUG meeting this Saturday 24th :)
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On 20 Aug 2013 15:53, "Sebastian" <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/08/13 15:29, Philip Jensen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19 Aug 2013 21:41, "Sebastian" <sebsebseb_mageia@gmx.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > It's nearly that time again :) for another BBLUG meeting :) this
Saturday the 24th :). However this time round it's the August one, and I
thought it was quite good last year, because of interesting visitors :). I
hope there will be a good turn out for this years :) of at least five
people other than myself. However the big question is: Who is planning on
being there other than myself? :)
>> >
>> > I am hoping to meet more than just regulars this Saturday with also
hopefully some people who don't tend to come often :), and ideally
hopefully some new people as well :).
>> >
>> <snip>
>> >
>> > I hope to meet more of you this Saturday :).
>> >
>> > Sebastian
>> >
>> >
>>
>> As one of the afore mentioned new people, I'd like to be there but I'm
going to be cycling to Bath with my girlfriend.
>>
>> So instead I'll do the introduction I was going to do afterwards.
>>
>> I'm a 3rd year chemical engineering student from the university of
Manchester, currently on a year placement at Rolls-Royce in Filton.
>
> Nice :).
>
>> I run a #! Eeepc 1000, a Debian Sheeva plug I'm trying to save from
ennui and a Nexus 4 I've been meaning to put CyanogenMod on. Last weekend I
picked up a RasberryPi and have been setting up RetroPi.
>>
>> I have more projects I'd like to do, than you could shake a stick at but
I'm trying to be better about documenting and completing them.
>>
>> I'm sorry I'm not going to be there, but I won't miss September's.
>
> Ok Saturday 28th September is the next one after this Saturday's, and
hope to meet you there :).
>
> By the way what distro/s do you use for standard Desktop Linux if you do
that? :)
>>

I don't actually have a desktop at the moment. I've managed to survive by
having an external monitor and using it with my eee. :)

I started out with ubuntu then moved to Linux mint when unity started
slowing things down too much. I finally settled on Crunchbang but have been
meaning to play around and try some others, hopefully something I can do
with the raspi.
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