[Linux SIG] October Meeting of LBSIG

[John Dierdorf]

This month's meeting of the Linux Beginners SIG will be Tuesday the 14th at 
the usual place and time -- 8109 Greenslope Drive, 6 PM gabfest and 7 PM 
presentation.  Coffee and carbs on demand.

Several interesting things for this month:

1.  I have the Beta of Ubuntu 6.10 (Intrepid Ibex) installed on my laptop.  
I'm not sure it's ready for prime time (which possibly is why the call it a 
beta), but maybe I just haven't figured everything out yet.

2.  I have the brand-new OpenOffice 3.0 downloaded and installed, so that is 
available for demonstration, too.  OO3.0 allegedly will import MSOffice2007 
files.  I don't have any such things to my knowledge, so I'd appreciate it if 
some benighted soul who has to use it would bring a few files (Word, Excel, 
Powerpoint) to try out.

3.  The Ubuntu beta includes new versions of some programs, in particular Gimp 
2.6.  There are significant changes, so I'll probably spend some time on 
that. 

4.  I actually had the guts to repartition my laptop hard drive to provide an 
extra partition to install the 6.10 beta.  In other words, I shrank a 150GB 
partition containing 8.04 (Hardy) to 80 GB and then used the open space to 
install the beta.  It worked and I now have a dual-boot Hardy/IntrepidBeta 
system.  I'll talk about safeguards and a few things to do afterward.

5.  If you'd rather, we can all watch the Texas-Oklahoma game over again.  
Fast-forwarding through commercials and halftime cuts the game to an hour and 
a half, so it could fit...  :)

See you Tuesday.

-- 
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