Hi, I think you are missing the point. I don't think it is a foolish idea,
because we can share experiences we had with distributions. Naturally,
"all distributions are equal" and your code should run as well on each
one.
But like it or not, some people like to work on some distributions more
than others. And some people are intrigued by other distributions. Eli is
interested in Mandrake. I'm interested in Gentoo. (my problem with
FreeBSD, is that it does not carry all the GNU tools by default). I never
willingly wrote anything that could only run on Mandrake or RedHat or
whatever. (unless you count hacks to overcome the glitches of a specific
distribution). But it does not mean I'm not also a user which likes to set
the clock using an applet instead of a date + brain-damage, or uses
MandrakeUpdate to install updates to packages.
I can get by by using the command line tools (and somehow need to, like
when writing a script), but sometimes LinuxConf can prove useful to. A
nice "I use Mandrake since version 7.1 and here is my evaluation of it"
or "I use Gentoo and this that" can go a long way into convincing someone
to give a different one a try. Most of what I know about distros is from
the Linux Weekly News Distributions Page, and I think I can use first-hand
reports.
A concentrated meeting of this sort would be very nice. If you think
otherwise, feel free not to come. If you don't want it to take place,
prepare a lecture. I think that any meaningful activity we can do to fill
in gaps in our schedule that is not mundane lectures should be welcomed. I
would still like the "How do I do that in XEmacs?" session, BTW. ;-)
Just my 10 agoroth,
Shlomi Fish
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