[mdlug] Looking for distro experts

[Kevin O'Brien]

First, as to the general question of what we are looking for, I think it
would be showing the distro to the home user. We have had Jorge Castor come
by several times to show off Ubuntu, but I would like to expand on that.
Fedora and openSUSE are among the top distros, so it would be good to have
them demonstrated for our users. So it would include things like why you
like this distro, what are the advantages, etc.

The next two openings in our schedule are 4/19/12 and 5/17/12. Could either
Ryan or Brad take 4/19, for instance?

Thanks,

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> :wq
> _______________________________________________
> mdlug mailing list
> mdlug at mdlug.org
> http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug
>



-- 
Kevin B. O'Brien
zwilnik2 at gmail.com
Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account.