After two months of no interaction with the freshmen of the college, we at LUG Manipal thought what better way to begin than to introduce open source among them. So we organised an install fest of Ubuntu 9.04 remastered version from 6th -9th October.
First day of the fest, we had a huge turnout of enthusiasts. Majority of the first day was spent on burning the iso’s onto the DVDs and defragmenting the system. After that we made them partition the system and installed Ubuntu on their laptops. Luckily there was no disc errors and the entire process went on smoothly. And by the end of the session, everybody in the workshop had Ubuntu on their systems.
Second day was more of instructions. Firstly there was an introduction talk on the philosophy of open source, a general introduction to LUG and the history of Linux. It was followed by configuration of CNTLM to make them able to access repositories over I-ON’s network. Then a general overview of software alternates in Ubuntu including open office, synaptic, rhythmbox, transmission, geany etc followed, ending the day’s proceedings.
On the last day of the event, there was a talk on Mozilla Firefox from the open source perspective, with amazing goodies, courtesy Mozilla. And rest of the day was spent interacting with the crowd and solving queries. Lots of interesting stuff was discussed.
Overall this event had a great turnout and served the perfect start to LUG Manipal’s line-up for the events this semester.
Click here to download the slides:
Intro to Linux
Open Source Software talk
Coming Next is the Web Development Workshop .
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