Self Introduction

[Alex Gakuru]

Welcome Simon,

I received below email on a recent Ubuntu event (in the US) which I hope you should be find interesting enlightening.

Best

Alex
 
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The Pacific Northwest team hosted a demo booth at Linuxfest Northwest in
Bellingham Washington (USA) on April 28th and 29th.  The interest in
Ubuntu was awesome!  We handed out over 150 feisty CD's the first hour
we were at the fest!

We actually had to use 5+ computers to burn CD's and make a trip to the
store to pickup more CDR's.

We estimate that we gave out 450+ Dapper/Feisty Edubuntu, Kubuntu,
Ubuntu and Xubuntu CD's over the duration of the two day event.

Pictures can be found here: http://paulbartell.com/pictures/lfnw and
http://willsimpson.org/LinuxFest-NW

Further details about the project / fest including marketing materials
can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PNWTeam/projects/lfnw2007

I'll work on getting the GIMP files for the CD labels over to the
marketing team later this week.

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Best regards,

Dan Shufelt
Ubuntu- Pacific Northwest Team (PNWTeam)
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Tony White <tony.mzungu at gmail.com> wrote: This email is from a ubuntu-ke subscriber to other subscribers inluding you:)
Hi Simon,

> I just joined the list

Welcome!

> ....Ubuntu. I like it - it's not that bad,

It's the best - for many reasons - not least, it's free - and will
always be so, whereas Red Hat, SuSE, etc. you have to pay for the
so-called 'enterprise version'

> ...using tarballs. Ubuntu says
> that my gcc cannot create executables - so I am unable to install
> applications.

Depends what you want to do - pre-built binaries are normally
installed via internet with apt-get (like debian) or aptitude, or
synaptic (gnome) or adept (kde) - but several methods are available
for off-line update/install - there is apt-on-cd which is a selection
of apps on a cd - and there is also a way to transfer from an online
system to an offline system.  You can also go to the repositories, and
download the .deb package you want, and install directly (but then you
might run into problems of unresolved dependencies).

If you want to download and build from source, then at least get your
machine online for long enough to install the pseudo-package
'build-essential' - which has all the gcc/make stuff for building
apps.

Also - most of the main apps are on the cd.

hth,
Tony

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