[wlug_org] NetBSD @ Installfest

[Donald Gordon]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:25:57 +1200
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:

> ----------------
> I was hoping to get some help installing NetBSD with KDE desktop at the
> installfest on Saturday. I'm a computer science student at Victoria Uni
> and have selected NetBSD/KDE as it mirrors the lab environment at the
> university maths department. I want to get some experience with *UNIX*
> and to be able to do coursework at home, so would also like to have a

...

> Well there's my wish list. Are you able to help? I am happy to download
> any distros etc and bring them on a disk if you don't have them
> available so let me know if that would be a help.
> ----------------

> Is anyone here happy to try installing NetBSD, or should we give it a
> miss, and try and get him to use Ubuntu? :-)

You might want to pass on to them that there's a vaguely active
computer club on campus which has many members who have been in a
similar situation before, and which has weekly meetings on Wednesdays
at 6pm in Cotton 339...

And MCS coursework is quite doable under Linux :-)

donald
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