Hi all, With reference to my blog for today (http://rubberturnip.org.uk/index.cgi/2006/06/30#1151678917talking_at_notts_l...), I've been vaguely invited to talk at my local LUG about SUSE. Want to pose the same questions here as will appear on Planet SUSE the next time it updates: * What should I tell them about SUSE? * Would I be able to get hold of any official freebies to give away? Cheers all. -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org http://usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Help end poverty: http://oxfam.org.uk/imin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
Fredag 30 juni 2006 16:51 skrev James Ogley:
* What should I tell them about SUSE?
Tell 'em the truth. SUSE has an excellent mix of usability/functionality, stability/bleeding edge technology. And that they'll be able to get all the latest KDE stuff very fast. With patches and nice polish and everything. Warn them that in 10.1 the package manager is under development. Explain openSUSE to them. And.. since it's a LUG - in my experience they largely consist of people who are mentally stuck in circa '94-'95. So I would devote a lot of time to killing off SUSE myths, like: "it's extremely slow" "filled with non-free stuff" "development is very closed" "it's not avaiiable for free download" "YaST overwrites settings during the night while the computer is turned off" "They have removed all the server-stuff from the distro/You can only get the packages that are on the cd/dvd" "Novell is not contributing to the community" I'm personally confronted with stuff like that on a daily basis. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
* What should I tell them about SUSE?
And.. since it's a LUG - in my experience they largely consist of people who are mentally stuck in circa '94-'95. So I would devote a lot of time to killing off SUSE myths, like: "it's extremely slow"
This one remains, esp. when locate (this has been turned off already) and beagle (this one not) run after first boot. It even remains when considering something else, desktops. Take a wall clock and measure the time a computer needs to boot, login and start 'cmd' under XP, and use the same hardware specs to do the same for linux, some wm and 'xterm'. Try the same within VMware, which caches away a lot of useless disk access, so you mainly see the processing wall time. Jan Engelhardt -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
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