Tom: I like the idea, however, it would not accurately represent the distributions; people do things at different speeds, hardware runs different, et cetera. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/17 Emerson, Tom (*IC) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>></span><br>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Courier New">I can
see two parts to this -- the "here are the cool features that *I* like..." and a
"who can do this better/faster/easier?" session where folks in the audience call
out a task and the "contestants on stage" race to accomplish it first. (of
course, the more obscure the task, the better -- not much point in seeing who
can "google for bacon wrapped hot dogs" the fastest...)</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Courier New">And,
of course, while being "obscure", they should be "real world" tasks -- such as
identifying and/or removing duplicate "media" files (songs, photographs, movies,
etc.) or renaming several files at once to use a sequence number (i.e., all the
"photos" you took on a given date should be sequenced for that
date...)</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Courier New">anyone have a 4-port KVM switch handy? (or at least "just
video"?)</font></span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Tahoma">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Miguel Hernandez<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:54
PM<br><b>To:</b> SGVLUG Discussion List.<br><b>Subject:</b> [SGVLUG] Potential
meeting topic: ¨Linux OS Bake-off¨<br><br></font></div>Tom´s thread about the
upcoming release of OpenSUSE got me thinking, though, about a ¨Linux OS
Bake-off¨ as a potential topic for one of our upcoming meetings. Having not
been involved long enough, I´m not sure if the group has had one recently or
how well they´re received/attended.<br><br>I did think of a twist to the
typical bake-off, though. What about individual folks coming up for 5-10 mins.
to discuss what features they really like in their OS of choice? Specifically
cool, would be features that you tell your friends about when trying to
convert them over to Linux- ease of use, accessibility, media-ready,
pre-installed apps, why you use it as your dev. environment, etc.<br><br>Cool
distros that might get discussed:<br>Ubuntu <insert flavor
here><br>OpenSUSE<br>Debian<br>Fedora<br>Sabayon
Linux<br>gOS<br>OpenGEU<br><the last 3 are distros that imho are absolutely
gorgeous right out the box, especially OpenGEU which uses the uber (yet system
heavy) Enlightenment DR17 window mgr><br><br>I figured the twist would be a
good way to get more folks involved. For me personally, I don´t think I could
I could give a 2-hour talk, but 5-10mins isn´t bad. I figure there´s a slew of
folks who are similar.<br>Thinking further down the line, it´s something we
could all build on or even take the main points from everyone´s quick
presentation & turn it into something we could share with other groups
we´re a part of (ie. a BarCamp presentation or a BoF at a more traditional
conf).<br>Who knows, maybe putting those results up on the main SGVLUG page
would garner more attention & hopefully even more folks at our meetings.
:)<br><br><br>Just some thoughts. I hope I´m not overstepping any boundaries
or making more work for all of our
admins.<br><br>--miguel<br></blockquote></div></div>
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