[ale] Thursday Feb 21 ALE Central Meeting Announcement

[Lawrence Hamblin]

Question: Is the idea to do it PowerPoint-style? 'Cause I'm leaning toward
a live demonstration sort of thing.

Lawrence

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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