Virtualbox and Linux Mint Workshop

Bring your computers! We will be installing Virtualbox, which is very good desktop virtualization software and once we have that installed, we will install Linux Mint. This hands-on workshop is in room WCC 3008. It consists of 3 one hour segments on Thursday afternoon from 1PM - 5PM  that follow the session and break schedlue of the conference. Because seating is limited to 20 CALIcon14 attendees you need to signup to reserve a seat. This workshop is only available to CALIcon14 attendees and there is no extra cost.

Presented by:
Ben Chapman
Assistant Dean for Information Technology
Emory University School of Law
This will be a hands-on tutorial on how to install Oracle Virtualbox on to your notebook computer along with how to install the latest version of Mint, which is a very user-friendly and attractive Linux distribution that loves long walks on the beach and open source software.
Bring your computers! We will be installing Virtualbox, which is very good desktop virtualization software and once we have that installed, we will install Linux Mint. Linux Mint is now the fourth most popular desktop OS in the world. Here are some of the reasons for that:

• It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
• It's both free of cost and open source.
• It's community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
• Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.
• It's safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).

What do you need in order to participate in this session?
You'll need to bring your notebook computer. It needs to have 4GB of RAM; a little less might work, but it will be more fun if you have at least 4GB. It needs 10GB of disk space free. You need to be an administrator - so that you will have the right to install software. You need to have a healthy dose of curiosity, but not much else. I promise this will be a friendly, low-stress introduction to a whole fascinating area of computing. Because of the size of some of the images, I will try to bring some thumb drives, but if you plan to attend, it might make sense for you to ping me ahead of time, so you can download before coming to the conference which will probably make everything go a bit faster.
Resources and Homework
It would be really helpful if you would download Virtualbox and Linux Mint before the workshop. That way, we will be able to move a little bit more quickly.
Here are links to my materials for the first two sections of the workshop:

• Part 1: Installing Virtualbox: http://wp.me/p26NWR-kJ
• Part 2: Installing Linux Mint into Virtualbox: http://wp.me/p26NWR-l1
• Part 3: Running Linux Mint on Virtualbox: (1) enabling snapshots and (2) shared folders: http://wp.me/p26NWR-li

While these were originally posts on my blog (http://benjaminjchapman.wordpress.com), I'm going to move them to being "pages", instead so that I can organize them. As a result, the links may be slightly different, but they should be easy to find from the main page.

To download VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension pack, go here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

To download Linux Mint, visit http://www.linuxmint.com and click on the download link.