On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Matt Frye wrote: > On 9/20/05, Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because it let's the membership get one more datum on the > > candidates personality. > > On 9/20/05, Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you were running for the SC of a racing club people would probably > > want to know what kind of car you drive. > > Thanks Tanner and Joel. I appreciate your responses. While I > understand that one can derive more information about a candidate from > what distro they use, I fail to see how that is germane to being an > effective member of the steering committee. > > Whether a candidate uses Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Uhooplah, or "AOL > Linux for Windows ME" doesn't make any candidate any more qualified to > fulfill the duties of a steering committee position. What it does, is > present new and interesting ways to divide us.
Matt, I think you're being pessimistic that the "distro of choice" discussion is meant as divisive. It's simply a data point, a piece of information that could start a further discussion (if warranted), or simply be looked over. Just because someone likes a particular distro does not mean they aren't interested in others. And plus, we wouldn't want to elect all Red Hat wonks, right? ;-) My distro of choice has been Fedora Core and Red Hat Linux, which apparently today represent a more "conservative" feel - it's a known quantity, well-understood, effective, but not necessarily best-liked. But I'm not running for Steering Committee. :-) Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
