G'day...
I don't agree with you regarding ACS. Student membership is available and plenty of SLUGgers would qualify.
It is a professional body, so a level of professional qualifications is required. I've previously been a student member, and am planning on becoming a full member shortly.
I fail to see why the ACS may be considered a bit of a joke in some circles. (My opinion is that maybe its a case of sour grapes as in the Aesop fable - ie. the people don't qualify to be ACS members so therefore ACS sucks. I'm happy to be wrong on that one though.)
ACS provides a quality service to its members and the community at large. Additionally, it produces both a magazine and a technical journal. It is by no means behind the times, nor is it biased to any particular operating system.
I am curious about the reasoning behind the thought that is contrary to my own views.
Warmest regards
Mike
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To: Enrique Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia. |
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Enrique Vila wrote:
> I�m preparing my migration to Australia (not yet there) but I�m
> gathering some information about the linux world in down under.
>
> Is there any specially popular distribution in Australia? or is it like
> in th US?
Dunno how it is in the US, but here Debian, RedHat, and Mandrake are all
pretty popular. The odd copy of SuSE pops up, and others like Gentoo and
whatnot are seen, but the big 3 dominate.
> Do you guys are all members of ACS? or any other organization?
I'm StudIEEE, StudIEAust, StudAPESMA, but not because of my interest in
Linux. To become an ACS member, you have to hold appropriate technical
qualifications - which I'll wager half of the people on SLUG don't have (not
necessarily a bad thing...). In the circles I frequent, the ACS is seen as
a bit of a joke - an MS shill, and not overly interested in true state of the
art. I think IEEE's Computer Society isn't bad, but it isn't local.
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