On Thu, August 23, 2007 2:00 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: >> That is, if we can all agree to "live and let live" - every distro >> available to us. Let this be an exercise in cooperation, where each >> distro >> / *nix advocate can be given equal chance to shine - and to back >> each other up - in our collective work. > > Hear hear! I am grateful that I have a choice: I don't choose Windows, > and I don't choose Gnome. I am happy with KDE but I don't wish to deny > anyone the choice of something else. > > A > >
I think there are two opportunities emerging here: 1. As Rik suggests, a number of Live CD demos on SFD. People can play (although this doesn't give a true measure of an instakked system IMHO). 2. At a regular meeting a more structured comparison of the major players.. Choose, say, 5 distros, and give the five proponents 20 minutes each to talk on a *clearly defined* set of criteria, which may include: (a) default package set; (b) ease of installation/initial setup; (c) package management; (d) ease of some common peripheral tasks (hooking up a camera, an external drive/card reader, printing); (e) ease of integration into a the typical soho LAN. For an interesting twist, perhaps the speakers have to be people who don't typically use that distro? Like a Mandrake RPM based KDE user should have to review Ubuntu? Or maybe theres just too many variables in that equation for a useful comparison. I'll demo PCBSD or Sabayon if no one else wants to (although both might be a bit too obscure to make the "top 5".) -- Nick Rout
