Greetings, That was the day before Regional Elections in France and people sort of hibernated, except a few pinguins….. Like those from NUI and myself :)
Father Xmas bag with a few goodies from Doug (thanks my savior) and waiting for the bona fide visitor and/or the reckless visitor running away from the Xmas shopping :) 1. We had a Greek lady (phew… living in France) who had just brought a brand new Lenovo laptop. I did not have the courage to “migrate” her to openSUSE Leap 42.1 nor did I give her a DVD. Instead, we took this opportunity to teach her LibreOffice because that will be the entry point to use openSUSE desktop (Gnome/Plasma …). She has a Ph.D so she was receptive… 2. Two lads came round, one with openSUSE 13.2 and the other with SLED 11 SP4. Both had VLC issues, in a nutshell VLC KO… tried many scenarios but to no avail. The one with 13.2 took a openSUSE Leap to reinstall everything because the box has been tempered with a lot and VLC was really a pain….. The other one will come next month to troubleshoot further…. 3. A couple walked in, the man wanted to upgrade 13.1 to 13.2 and the lady a Samsung tablet with GPS issues. We will soon rename our association to Samaritans and Co. Sic. No backup was made and here was no particular issue to address, the operation was postponed for January, but what I did not know, she asked information to openstreetmap who was here as well and she used a couple of gigs on my SIM card to download new firmware et al. Ok, proud to announce Smaritans and co is up and running…. 4. We had 3 school teachers (they came separately). Oh well, one of them is a regular, so father Xmas (FX) was generous. He helped out a few newcomers having a quick start! 5. Two employees (senior) of the city walked in. They do go into extra gratia considerations for us, again FX said thanks for 2015. Not wanting any change of the city software for the time being…. They had a look round and were happy that the crowd looked pretty much interested in what they were doing. They have been invited to have dinner forthcoming Friday at home! I am cooking! 6. Openstreetmap gave his usual lecture but non on the real FX timetable, sadly enough because a man brought his 2 and an half years old son around. I completely forgot to debug games, so the kid had to indulge in geek talks but the dad was here for serious matters, like ssh! 7. A strange guy walked in, went round, and out of the sudden disappeared while taking away a couple of DVD… Maybe a spy as now the coalition of UBUNTU or else as 5 different associations against poor us…. Since 1st of January last, Rouen is the capital of Normandie, so help me God! 8. Didier came with his PC and it was a real fight to get it going 9. A man asked us about a similar feature to accept all third party and/or non free software like Debian does with apt-get (particularly for video cards) 10. 6 ladies came round and 22 other men with normal questions and answers etc. All usual members/visitors were taken care by FX. We had cakes, compliments of NUI and some members, tea/coffee/soft drinks as well. Chocolate was part of the diet and we happily closed down before cleaning evrything because the next day there were electoral booths in this very room. 11. A late comer wanted a software dealing with Astronomy sort of mathematical exploitation of Astronomical data, we were all dumb :( I must say that we had very bad times this year. Old Novell/Microsoft agreement did pushed us out of RMLL last Summer. Just banned! Now, not less than 5 local associations have made a coalition to push UBUNTU and in their blogs sometimes giving contra indications on openSUSE. Against all odds, we nevertheless had 10 sessions in 2015. Leftovers for 2016: 1. Rsync server 2. lftp server 3. Many gigs in the “cloud” 4. Scratch all our 21 boxes plus 9 laptops with 32bit openSUSE/SUSE or 64 bit where available…. 5. Mastering UEFI installation 6. Mastering live-grub-stick in lieu of multisystems 7. Mastering dual booting Tumbletweed 8. Ordering banners 9. Keeping websites/blogs alive and well 10. Change NUI name because of legacy gossiping? Linuxuniversity.fr been reserved liNuxUnIversity. (NUI) I will need to decreet same and change the legal paper work/bits….. Cheers, Jimmy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org
