That is a great idea Miguel, I know that I would be willing to speak of the distribution I use, Mandriva, for and 5 or 10 minutes of speaking would be much better than 2 or so hours- <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/17 Miguel Hernandez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:migtek@gmail.com">migtek@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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>
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<br>--miguel<br>
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