Free Pizza will be provided!!!

The Linux Users Group (LUG) at UCLA invites you to attend the quarterly Linux Installfest! Please fill out the RSVP form to indicate your pizza preferences.

• Date: 2024-10-11 (Friday of Week 2)
• Time: 6-9 PM
• Location: Engineering IV, Maxwell Room (57-124)
• RSVP: link

General Info

LUG hosts a quarterly installfest on Friday of the 2nd week. We will start by giving a presentation on Linux to get newcomers up to speed. Then, attendees will be provided a USB drive and guided in dual booting their computers with Linux (most likely Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint). However, you are welcome to bring your own flash drives and install any distro of your choice. Or if you don’t feel comfortable with the possibility of losing their data, you can set up a Virtual Machine instead.

This time around, there will be a demo of a Linux install on a 2014 Mac Mini, recently plucked from the e-waste.

The officers will also be doing a show-and-tell of their own hardware which they have installed Linux on. Experienced users are also encouraged to show off their own setups.

At the end, we’ll have a SuperTuxKart LAN party with our freshly installed Linux machines.

Past Installfests

You can view pictures from past installfests here.

Note on M1 and M2 Macs

Due to their custom Apple silicon, the only Linux distro which works on M1/M2/M3 Macs is the experimental Asahi Linux. You also have the option of setting up a Virtual Machine to run Linux so feel free to come and chat with us!