Define "equal and fair". My intention is to show a few screenshots, say that many prefer it, that many of those do prefer it because it's similar to certain other operating systems, that applications which work here almost always work identically there, that there are distributions (I plan on demonstrating Ubuntu, so I'll mention Kubuntu) which have it installed by default, and then get on with demonstrating Gnome.
On 2/5/07, boazg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sounds like a great idea. just remember to use only well-tested stable beryl plug-ins. and give KDE an equal and fair chance. On 2/4/07, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ohad Lutzky wrote: > > On 2/4/07, guy keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and then you'll come and say "oh, we need to give the lecture about > >> debugging and developing on linux". wasn't it already agreed to re-run > >> it for the spring semester students? > > > > Well, definitely, but this isn't what I had in mind. I was thinking > > more along the lines of "there's this thing called Linux, and you'll > > be using it this semester, and you'll hear lots of horror stories, but > > here are a few cool things about it" - proceed to show off stuff like > > desktop environments, package management, Beryl, LiveCDs... Stick a > > bit of lightweight F/OSS ideology and history in there... that is, > > something to make the people feel more at ease with Linux. Otherwise > > the clash with the unknowns of the commandline one experiences in > > Matam is often all that it takes to keep him locked in Proprietaria > > forever. > > well, go ahead and prepare this. then be ready to add the dev tools > re-run ;) > > --guy > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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