Last Thursday, July 2nd, the Bellingham Linux Users Group held an InstallFest - inviting the community in to try out Linux in its various forms, or get help with any niggling issues. About two dozen people attended, with various degrees of experience. Questions ranged from issues with audio on an old laptop, to the relative merits of different virtualization platforms, to ext file system recovery tools. I talked a bit about features of the upcoming 11.2 release (I'm rather excited about RESTful YaST, myself), demo'd by HP business laptop running openSUSE 11.1, and worked on a few installs. Sadly, we were all thwarted by a newbie with a Dell laptop that just wouldn't allow for partition resizing, no matter what (Neither openSUSE 11.1, Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.04, nor Debian Lenny would allow for resizing, and no amount of Windows repair would change the state... wierd.) But aside from that, it was a good time, and the Linux desktop was able to be spread to a few new users! The only area I fell short on was media... although I have a substantial supply of the freebie 32-bit DVDs, there was demand only for 64-bit for install. Luckily, I had my retail set handy to share. The DVDs are great for a live environment though, and I saw quite a few floating around. All in all, it was a good event! - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org