Re: [MLUG] Linux-Meetup Montréal (10 janvier 2017)

[Nick Sklavenitis]

I guess we had nothing better to do on a Linux User group but to start a Distro 
war in 2017.

Lets keep it civil there a few people possibly still in the hundreds who 
probably like me do not care to have this conversation and i think who ever 
does should take it off the list. This is a mailing list for linux and linux 
questions and events, This is not a popularity list and considering there are 
more linux distros out there then days in a year, i think which one is better 
is best left for individual users to decide.


> On Jan 12, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Jean Christophe André 
>  wrote:
> 
> Le 2017-01-12 à 08:12, Leslie S Satenstein a écrit :
>> The January invitation was titled UBUNTU users.  The MLUG was not supposed 
>> to be a "Ubuntu only" group.
> 
> Do you actually mean you don't expect to see an invitation for a SUSE group — 
> or any other LUG — to go through this list?
> 
> This is a general “LUG(s) in Montréal” mailing list and this kind of emails 
> are perfectly acceptables.
> 
>> Yes, it is impolite, but then when the invitation is titled  "Ubuntu users" 
>> I guess that excludes others.
> 
> Yes it probably does, because this is probably the expected audience for the 
> meeting.
> 
> The subject was clear so you were well informed and free to just ignore the 
> message if you are not interested in this topic.
> 
> It still perfectly belongs to the “Montréal LUG” topic.
> 
>> I like to evalutate distributions. I have currently installed Chapeau Linux, 
>> Korora Linux, RFRemix (Russian Linux), SUSE, and Arch.
>> I did have Ubuntu and Debian. but I only have 5 disks, and I like to keep my 
>> distributions away from each other.
> 
> I'm just curious about the “5 disks”. Assuming 20 GB is enough to test a 
> single distro — and it usually is, unless you install a LOT of non distro 
> specific packages — a single 500 GB disk allow to test 25 distros. Assuming 
> you would optimize things with the use of virtualization, because testing 
> hardware support doesn't require a full installation (live testing is enough 
> for that), you could test even more distros on one single disk, not 
> mentioning opening a whole new world of networking experimentations. Testing 
> on 5 disks would mean they probably are old and slow disks and it would not 
> be the best way to evaluate modern distros.
> 
> Regards, J.C.
> -- 
> Jean Christophe ANDRÉ  @  Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
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Re: [MLUG] Linux-Meetup Montréal (10 janvier 2017)

[Jean Christophe André]

Le 2017-01-12 à 08:12, Leslie S Satenstein a écrit :
The January invitation was titled UBUNTU users.  The MLUG was not 
supposed to be a "Ubuntu only" group.


Do you actually mean you don't expect to see an invitation for a SUSE 
group — or any other LUG — to go through this list?


This is a general “LUG(s) in Montréal” mailing list and this kind of 
emails are perfectly acceptables.


Yes, it is impolite, but then when the invitation is titled  "Ubuntu 
users" I guess that excludes others.


Yes it probably does, because this is probably the expected audience for 
the meeting.


The subject was clear so you were well informed and free to just ignore 
the message if you are not interested in this topic.


It still perfectly belongs to the “Montréal LUG” topic.

I like to evalutate distributions. I have currently installed Chapeau 
Linux, Korora Linux, RFRemix (Russian Linux), SUSE, and Arch.
I did have Ubuntu and Debian. but I only have 5 disks, and I like to 
keep my distributions away from each other.


I'm just curious about the “5 disks”. Assuming 20 GB is enough to test a 
single distro — and it usually is, unless you install a LOT of non 
distro specific packages — a single 500 GB disk allow to test 25 
distros. Assuming you would optimize things with the use of 
virtualization, because testing hardware support doesn't require a full 
installation (live testing is enough for that), you could test even more 
distros on one single disk, not mentioning opening a whole new world of 
networking experimentations. Testing on 5 disks would mean they probably 
are old and slow disks and it would not be the best way to evaluate 
modern distros.


Regards, J.C.

--
Jean Christophe ANDRÉ  @  Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
✉ : 3034, boul. Édouard-Montpetit, Montréal (QC)  H3T 1J7, CANADA
⎧Note personnelle : merci d'éviter de m'envoyer des fichiers⎫
⎩MS-Office, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments⎭

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Re: [MLUG] Linux-Meetup Montréal (10 janvier 2017)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Jan 11, 2017 16:36, "Leslie S Satenstein"  wrote:

Is your group a UBUNTU only group? It seems to me to be the case.  Happy
New Year,  By the way, I run SUSE and Fedora, both better than UBUNTU.



No, it's for all distros.

As far as whatever distro is better, you're entitled to your opinion, but
you should know it's generally considered rude if you are to boast with
"XYZ is better" on random email threads when 95% of all the distributions
are basically the exact same thing with different color schemes.

/ Matt
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Re: [MLUG] Linux-Meetup Montréal (10 janvier 2017)

[Hendrik Boom]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:35:01PM +, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> Is your group a UBUNTU only group? It seems to me to be the case.  Happy New 
> Year,  By the way, I run SUSE and Fedora, both better than UBUNTU.
>  Regards 
>  Leslie
>  Leslie Satenstein
> Montréal Québec, Canada

Don't know about the group, but I run Devuan jessie.

-- hendrik
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