<p><pre><code> So I dragged my tower PC to a "Linux installation party."
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Is that what they were called in other places? In SV, we had "copyfests", where people brought computers with diskette drives to help replicate the many disks needed to install the current distro, and "installfests", where novices could bring their desired target computers to have access to distro files and install/diagnosis help from others.