-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Weniger wrote: > The VM concept is a neat idea. However, why not run the workshop with > 2 boxes (one for a Debian distro and one for a rpm based distro). I
If the team or individual leading the workshop was comfortable with both environments this could be doable. The problem is that we cannot guarantee that both will be covered for a given workshop as it depends on the skill set and familiarity of the "experts". As I see it, this will be driven by the team leading the workshop on a case by case basis. I would not want to dictate distros to the kind souls donating their time and energy. As an aside, RPM distros vary within themselves more than the Debian based ones do. The differences between SuSe and Red Hat are more significant than between Xandros and Ubuntu. > would think it would be easier to make comparisons and notes between > the two boxes and have the attendees physically see the differences. My experiences at previous workshops is that this sort of thing chews up way too much time, at the expense of the actual topic, unless that topic is "exploring the differences between distro X and distro Y". :) I personally do not see much benefit to this comparison. I like to focus on accomplishing a given task, rather than get lost in myriad number of implementations (apache configs are unorganised quite differently between Red Hat, SuSe, and the Debians). I am not against covering more than one distro, but we need to be mindful of people's time (both the experts and the audience), which means we need to realistically asses our resources against our goals. If this means not covering distro X, then so be it. Of course this presents a lot of opportunity for presentations at our monthly meetings (ie. since distro X was not covered/represented at the workshop, here is a presentation on accomplishing Task Z on Distro X). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFuOonwRXgH3rKGfMRAvYSAKCDBNVurzaE9kndMmnECN/sIEn0mwCgiuof Bdxzjn536JUx47+r2is1zu8= =By5t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
