Free Your Machine
Free your machine happens from 10am to 2pm on a Saturday once a quarter. If you are bringing a machine to have Linux installed, please DEFRAGMENT your hard drives before you come. This often takes a long time and can prevent us from installing.
We install Ubuntu Linux by default, but if you would like another distro installed, bring a disc and we’ll help you if we can. Please note that most of our members are more familiar with Debian/Ubuntu, so you’ll have the most support with one of those variants.
Your computer must be able to boot from a CD-ROM or USB drive. If you cannot boot from either, or if your computer cannot run windows, or if you have really really weird hardware, please contact our mailing list directly so that we can be prepared for you.
This quarter’s (Spring 2010) FYM is Saturday April 24th, at 10am, in the Cal Poly Networks Lab, Building 20 Room 124.
See the flyer here: FYM Flyer Spring 2010
These are some good packages to install:
- manpages-dev
- glibc-doc
- build-essential
- sun-java6-plugin
- vim (or vim-nox)
- screen
- flashplugin-nonfree
- ubuntu-restricted-extras (includes many things listed above, plus more things like mp3 support, dvd support, etc)
