Ubuntu Install Fest etc.

[Caleb Marcus]

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:29 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:

> Dear Brenda Collins,
> 
> > I'm on the planning committee for the Spring Conference, Cape Cod and
> > Islands Library Association, to be held Mar 20, 2008.
> 
> I'm the leader of Ubuntu MA, we had originally decided to postpone the
> installfest until the spring so as not to invite people to carry heavy
> computers and monitors over the ice and snow of a boston winter.
> 
> Instead I will be pushing the organisation of a user party, where we
> have a get together where the main aim is showing off some of the
> interesting ways to use Ubuntu; demonstrations and gaming. We'll be
> talkign in depth about this at our monthy meeting which is on Thursday
> the 13th December this month.
> 
> > I want to know when and where on Jan 12 this installfest is being held, as I
> > (and my husband, a software developer) would like to attend.
> 
> there is no place yet, it may be that we don't have a place to go to
> even if we decided to organise the event since MIT (Steve confirm me
> on this) is rather busy in January.
> 
> > I would also like to know of any libraries (public, academic, special,
> > school) which have installations of Ubuntu in place.  I am curious to know
> > of the experiences of NON technical persons (like librarians) + also how
> 
> Michael Selva runs a small computer lab at the Armenian school in
> Watertown, MA. He's down as our Educational Liaison and has promised
> to organise days where he will show the lab and share his experience
> with other schools and libraries.
> 
> > they have handled virus protection etc.
> 
> When we find a virus that runs on Linux we'll come up with a solution
> that kills it stone dead without the need for crippling the platform
> with anti-virus software. The latest versions of ubuntu come with
> AppArmor which prohibits the execution of virus like software
> concealed in compressed and hidden documents. As well as the Gnu/Linux
> platform being much more technically secure with segregated user
> rights, even if a computer was to become infected with a hypothetical
> virus, it wouldn't have the rights required to damage the workings of
> the machine or spread it's self over the network.
> 
> To aid any security problems, all updates including full upgrades to
> ubuntu are free of cost, allowing people to apply to the latest fixes
> (all te software is free in fact) but it's worth noting that no user
> is left in an extortable situation (i.e pay us or suffer security
> problems situation)
> 
> > Depending on how feasible Ubuntu might be, it is possible we may want to
> > include mention of Ubuntu in some way. OR a display or a table… I don't
> > know.
> 
> We can at any time give you demonstrations or talk to you and answer
> questions you have, either in person or in the mailing list or irc
> channel. I can personally field telephone calls at 857 277 2117 if
> your more comfortable with a telephone.
> 
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
> 

I just wanted to point out that AppArmor really isn't protecting much of
anything yet in Ubuntu... I believe it's only enabled for several
packages. It's possible to generate your own AppArmor profiles, but
until they start making profiles for all the apps included by default,
AppArmor isn't really solving any problems.
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