[mdlug] Looking for distro experts

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
>> I am looking for people who are experienced users in any of these areas who
>> might be willing to come present at Washtenaw Linux Users Group:
>>
>> 1. Fedora
>> 2. Mint
>> 3. openSUSE
>> 4. Arch
>> 5. Slackware
>> 6. Unity
>> 7. Gnome 3
>> 8. Any other distro you happen to favor
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>
> What exactly do you wish them to explian?  The average distrobution is
> little other than it's mangment software.

Off the top of my head, these things tend to differ slightly (or
greatly) between distributions:

1) Installation
2) Repository selection
3) Proper installation of software not in primary repository
4) Upgrades from old versions.
5) Upgrades from *really* old versions. (i.e. eight months to a year
in a rolling release like Arch or Gentoo, or 3-4 years in something
like Ubuntu)
6) System configuration. (/etc/default/ in Debian and Ubuntu,
/etc/conf.d/ and /etc/rc.local in Gentoo. I don't know about others)
7) Filenames for common packages. E.g. "apache2" for Debian/Ubuntu,
'httpd' for Red Hat (IIRC; been a long, long while),
www-servers/apache for Gentoo...
8) What to do in a "ugh. This upgrade has a regression. I need to pin
the package to $older_version for now."
9) Where's the core support community for the distribution? Quality
differs per-distribution for each of IRC, forums and mailing lists.

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