On 8/23/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Partially true. You'd also see what applications you get by default. This is most important to a newcomer, because they have every right to know if 'Linux' will do what they want it to do from the get-go.
> Would you notice the difference in which version of openoffice is loaded? Me personally? Between the major releases, yes, minor patchlevels no. Version one is completely different from Version Two. > The biggest difference between distros is in adminny things like package > management, Indeed, and people need to know about that sort of thing, and whether the particular commands offered by the particular distributions are convenient or otherwise. > and political things like the inclusion of nVidia drivers, both of which will > bore most desktop > users to tears or worse. Maybe. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
