Re: [LUG] Computer shops and Linux

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Sutton wrote:

> What happened to the thread on getting computer stores to promote 
> Linux,  it seems to have gone quiet
I took three weeks holiday for easter.

It's a coincidence that you should ask today though. I just sshed into 
my Uni machine this morning to download Knoppix 3.4, it's quicker on a 
Sunday since nobody is at Uni and I got 1MByte per second. Took about 12 
minutes to download a CD ISO of knoppix.

I intend burning a CD and taking it to the shop in Plymouth. Knoppix, 
being a live CD, can run on one of their demo second user machines with 
no fuss of installing.

The Knoppix idea was mentioned in the previous thread, thanks for the 
suggestions.

These I summarised:

1) Posters and cards with URL to various Linux and newbie sites and the 
DCLUG.

2) A list on the DCLUG of useful URLs.

3) A list of Linux friendly shops on the DCLUG.

4) Donate some distros to the shop. Paul may already have some distros 
that were otherwise going to charity.

5) Burn off Knoppix and stick DCLUG address on them.

6) Posters, displayed in shops, of LUG events.

I don't have any labels for my CDRs so I will scribble the DCLUG URL on 
by hand for this pilot setup.

Thanks
Andrew




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