If you recently found us and signed up for announcements (perhaps during welcome week or CCC), Welcome!

You are now part of the coolest engineering group at NC State! (seriously ;-)

Our big welcome activity this year is an Installfest, different than we've ever done it before.  It's going down about like this:

Teaser - what are you getting yourself into?! Pendragon is going to show off some cool stuff on his Linux machine.

Install - do it yourself. Follow along as we walk you through it on the projector.

Food - free pizza and drinks will be arriving after we get started with the installs.

Card Games - we'll have Settlers of Catan, Flux, and playing cards. The LUG is more a social group than anything else, so have fun and get to know people!

Intro to Linux - we want you to know how to do everything in Linux that you'd normally use your computer for. We'll have these short intros:

- Ubuntu Software Center

- Searching for and installing software from the command line - install ubutnu-restricted-extras for Flash, codecs, Java, etc

- Pidgin for IM and IRC (chatting with us in IRC might soon be a requirement for membership ;-)

- Electric Sheep eye candy

- OpenOffice

- Get the Chrome web browser

- Using Google and Ubuntu Forums to find answers

- VIM text editor and Eclipse

- Scripting in Python

LAN Party - Quake 3! Just bring your computer (weren't you doing that already?)

What are the new guys installing?

This time, we're focusing on doing quick Ubuntu installs in Windows in virtual machine, via wubi, or as the main OS. Quick and easy.

Please think ahead of time about which type of install you want to do:

Virtual Machine: Windows and Linux run at the same time using VirtualBox - we recommend at least 3GB RAM and multiple cores for this to run smoothly. Runs windowed or full-screen.

Wubi: Ubuntu installs from inside Windows. When you turn your computer on, Windows asks if you want to start Linux or Windows. Both run at full native speed. You can uninstall Linux/Wubi later via add/remove programs. If Windows dies for whatever reason, so does your Linux install.

Native Install: Forget Windows... get brave and install Linux as your main OS. You probably won't want to go back anyway ;-) Back up your data first!

Dual-boot: Choose which OS to run at boot, but unlike Wubi, it doesn't rely on Windows working. There's no time to resize partitions during installfest, so you must do any resizing.

Upgrade: Of course, you're free to do whatever you want here. This is also a good time to upgrade or try something new. We'll also have Fedora, Open SuSE, Ubuntu64, and others by request.

Not installing? We can definitely use your help with all the people who are. Come enjoy the food, games, and good conversation

Time & Place : Riddick 461 - This Tuesday (Sept 7) at 6pm

Be there!