Interesting..... Anyone who was on this list for the past 7 years or so MAY remember me suggesting this exact same thing. A distro "shootout" so to speak (and at that time I was a huge Slackware fan). It got shot down in flames, essentially being called a "pissing contest". Perhaps times have changed since then.
At this stage, I will be more than happy to skip my Tuesday pool night and actually attend a LUG meeting, and give a presentation on Ubuntu (and Slackware if needed).... However, I also want to play devil's advocate here and also present a Windows platform. Before everyone says "WTF, Gene flipped sides?!!!", hear me out. 1. I do not work for M$, and I still truly hate the way the company does business. 2. Keeping #1 in mind, they are still doing a few things right (and most things wrong). 3. There have been several posts on this list saying "Windows is the best server for Windows".....which I happen to agree with. Anyway....my .02... On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Mine was taken, slackware :(. I am probably not the ideal presenter though, > as I am not quite up to date on it. Which is consequently an advantage of > slackware. > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Kyle Gonzales <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> So the certainty that I will be in town is high as of now, and I expect to >> attend. How long of a time slot are we expecting to provide per presenter? >> Just need to know how long to make the slide deck... assuming people want >> that. If we have a whiteboard, that works as well. >> >> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:01 -0400, Kyle Gonzales wrote: >> >> >> What date is this again? >> >> >> Tuesday April 20th, 2010, will update wiki in a bit. >> >> >> >> If I am in town, I can cover Red Hat >> Enterprise Linux & Fedora. >> >> >> That would be great. If unavailable can have one person do RHEL and >> another do Fedora, or one can do both, either way. Same for the most >> part with SUSE and OpenSUSE. >> >> But Debian and Ubuntu need to be presented on individually IMHO. >> >> >> >> -- >> Kyle Gonzales >> [email protected] >> GPG Key #0x566B435B >> >> Read My Tech Blog: >> http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/ >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
