[wsfii-discuss] Some help in the USA

Wed Jul 16 09:05:08 UTC 2008

Hi Ram,

ramnarayan.k at gmail.com wrote:

> A friend of mine is going to the US - Williams College, Mass. US.
> 
> He uses Linux but has had help to set everything up - all. His current
> laptop broke down some months back and since he has been operating of an
> external Hard Disk formatted to ext3.
> 
> The university of Williams Town , who are providing him a desktop /
> laptop,  on being asked about Linux support, have been discouraging. But 
> as soon as he reaches the US he will need to use his data and
> presentations (made in open office .odi). And also access all his other
> data.
> 
> The help i required was does anyone have any GNU/Linux contact in
> Williams Town, who can help him set his machine up - to configure and
> run Ubuntu etc.

That's really not that hard. Could you lend him a machine and an Ubuntu 
CD to practice installation with before he goes?

Cheers, Chris.
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