[ale] Thursday Feb 21 ALE Central Meeting Announcement

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 16:30:40 EST 2013


Bummer. Backyard lake is nice iff by design.

We've got opens use next month.
On Feb 19, 2013 4:14 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> As much as I have been looking forward to meeting everyone, and defending
> the honor of SLES/SLED, I am not going to be able to make it to Thursday's
> gathering :(  I'm moving to a new house this week, and between the suddenly
> not functioning central air/heat, and the newly formed lake that is the
> back yard, I'm going to have to be in town to meet the various people
> coming to take care of these issues, and they are all showing up on
> Thursday and Friday.  I was expecting to have all that out of the way by
> Thursday, but as my predominantly bad luck would have it, that is not the
> case.  If I survive this move, hopefully I can make it over and meet
> everyone next month.
> Sorry for the last minute cancelling on talking about SLES/SLED :(
>
>
> Allen B.
>
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> ________________________________
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Jim Kinney [
> jim.kinney at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:55 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] Thursday Feb 21 ALE Central Meeting Announcement
>
> This month will have a friendly (hopefully) compare and contrast
> multi-speaker talk on different distros.
> Jim Kinney will do RHEL/CentOS
> Allen Beddington is covering SuSE SLES/SLED
> Lawrence Hamblin will discuss Gentoo
> Mike Harrison plans to show and tell Bodhi if he's in town.
>
> THE PLAN (TM) is to cover strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes,
> everything about installation, usage, libraries, package managers,
> configuration, security and programming in 10 minutes. Yeah, right! As
> distro choice is almost a religious process, be sure to bring your favorite
> barbs and jeers as well as your misty-eyed remembrances. Please no rotten
> fruits or other vegetation as some of this material will stink enough
> already (gnome3).
>
> There is still room for a volunteer for Debian or Slackware. We may need
> to do a Ubuntu vs Fedora grudge match later.
>
> We will meet in the usual location at Emory at 7:30 and migrate to Meltons
> for further commiserating afterwards.
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
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> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
> It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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