Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:52:11 +1200
Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/23/07, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some recent posts have prompted me to ask "should we have a distro war?"
I am sure that many of us are unaware of the pros and cons of "other"
distros and wondered if we should dedicate some time to showing off our
favourite distros at CLUG meetings.
Do you see this as an 'Outreach' exercise?
A couple of thoughts come to mind.....
We could have a standard list of topics/questions to apply to each distro.
We could have a line-up of PC's with different distros feeding into a KVM
switch then the projector or possibly a different distro at each meeting.
What say others?
A very good idea!
Lets try to avoid getting near an invocation of Godwin's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Would this be an appropriate exercise for the November meeting?
Have you got a LiveCD to hand?
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
I disagree. All you'd see is the difference in theming. Would you notice the
difference in wich version of openoffice is loaded?
The biggest difference between distros is in adminny things like package
management, and political things like the inclusion of nVidia drivers, both of
which will bore most desktop users to tears or worse.
Steve
I agree with Steve. The various apps basically perform the same in every
distro. What differs is the installation procedure, package management,
and availability of some apps for the distro.
The Supplied menu structure can make or in my case break the appeal of a
particular distro for a user. Likewise with fonts, if a font is not
provided (i'm talking about the likes of Times & arial) substitution
can screw up the pagination of an imported multi page document in oo.
Time would probably solve my problems with Ubuntu, but 1st impressions
affect subsequent choices for all of us.
A distro war will not achieve anything, a demo of distro specific
functions may.
Just my tuppence worth.
Barry
