Vancouver Linux Users Group

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Newbie Night Newbie Night Newbie Night
Ben Holt
Kim Kulak
Rob McCrea

Mon, 16 March 2009 7:30 - 9:30 pm
BCIT, Bldg SE6, TELUS Theatre

Ben will address this topic from from Paul Cipywnyk:

As a non-programmer, non-sysadmin who has played with Linux a bit off
and on, and considers himself a newbie, I'd be interested in learning
more about LAMP. It seems to me that LAMP is one of the huge strengths
of the open-source community. How do I install things like WordPress,
phpBB and Drupal on a local Linux box, and once I have a blog or BBS
or CMS set up locally to my liking, how do I transfer the whole
shebang over to my web host?

Kim will address running Windows applications on Linux as suggested by
Jel Coward:

Virtualbox rather than dual boot.

Folks often get scared by partitioning - and running two OS's
concurrently is cool - and folks are often impressed how much faster
Windows runs in a linux virtual machine than it does natively.

Rob McCrea will moderate a discussion on the subject put forward by Jose Da Silva:

My Windows98 computer got sacked with 100 viruses and nothing runs.
should I install Debian or Redhat?
Will it run games?
How do I do it?

See you all Monday Night!