[Swansea Hackspace] Linux tutorials

[Tim Moore]

FWIW  I can recommend 110% Ubuntu 14.04   and 15.04 is due for release 23rd
April, in 10 days time.

I've seriously tried Suse, Mint, Kubuntu, Xubuntu (avoid) but for me Ubuntu
is outstanding.

:  )))

Tim_1

On 13 April 2015 at 11:04, Tim Clark <eclipse at sucs.org> wrote:

> On 12/04/2015 21:43, Justin Mitchell wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 13:49 +0100, djdavies83 wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be possible to schedule some Linux tutorials?
>>>
>> sure
>>
> Agreed, we most defiantly have all the required knowledge
>
>> Although i will have to have a hard think about whats makes a good
>> introduction, its been such a long time since i have used anything but
>> linux.
>>
> I had the same thought, its such a wide topic and is really quite stable
> these days its quite hard to work out what to include in a Linux tutorial.
>
> Can you give us any idea what kind of things you would like to know how to
> do?
>
>> I would like to better understand the Linux version used at the
>>> hackspace, I'm also tempted to put Linux on an old system I have in
>>> the attic seen as Linux can be more reliable than windows.
>>>
>> The CNC Workstation is running Fedora https://getfedora.org/
>>
>> Maybe I can do a workshop of installing Fedora Live on a USB stick, and
>> running through the basic tools and apps.
>>   I'm sure someone else will volunteer to do similar for Ubuntu or some
>> other distribution.
>>
> I recommend Ubuntu over Fedora generally, especially for beginners and
> hobbyists primarily as it is more popular as a desktop distribution so
> finding help and tools elsewhere on the internet is easier, its also what
> the hackspace laptops run.
> People should be wary that distribution selection does tend to be a bit of
> a religious subject, and which one you select these days is not so
> important as they are all fairly stable with few notable exceptions.
> Do any of the people who wish to learn have a preference or questions
> about distribution selection?
>
> Tim
>
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