[wplug-board] Draft of: WPLUG to hold an installfest

[Terence J. Golightly]

Vance,

See below:

On 02/15/2011 08:41 AM, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> Terence J. Golightly wrote:
>>>> <<   should we need some type of notice of no fault on our part? My
>>>> concerns is with the second paragraph.>>
>>
>> What my concern is that someone is going to bring a unit in that we
>> cannot work with in a reasonable amount of time (length of installfest)
>> e.g. 386, 286 or older architecture.  A remote possibility, but a
>> possibility none the less.  How should we handle such a situation.  Just
>> send them away?  We know that older versions of distros can be installed
>> on 386 architechture (with extra work required).
>
> Hmm, the wiki page<http://www.wplug.org/wiki/Meeting-20110312>
> has the following language under "Those attempting an install"
>
>    A computer that is less than 5 years old with a CDROM drive and
>    network card is highly recommended.
>
> This is pretty accurate in my experience.  I cannot install the
> current Ubuntu or Fedora on my 9-year-old machine.  Perhaps if we
> are going to mention older hardware in the announcement, we should
> ask people to RSVP if they're bringing some?  This way, we can be
> prepared with a distro more suitable for their machine.


I've modified the original and dispatched it.


Terry


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