[Novalug] May topic-- speakers? Finalizing talk

jerry w jerrywone@gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 21:19:09 EDT 2015


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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, 15:23 greg pryzby via Novalug <
novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> FWIW discussing ANYTHING at a LUG is apt be break into a religious war :)
>
> That said, in the past people have asked how to do something in a
> distro or spoken about a cool feature. While not really distro (more
> window manager), today I would argue that there is a tight link
> between the WM and distro. Sure I can use xfce or kde on Fedora or
> Ubuntu but to most
>    Fedora -> Gnome
>    Ubuntu -> Unity
>
> What I envisioned was:
>    5-10 minutes showing the desktop and how you use it (alt-tab,
> alt-tick, alt-f2, for example) and some tweaks you love
>    audience ask questions after they see all distros
>
> I expect that yum/apt/updating doesn't need to be addressed, it is
> wash these days
>
> I would like to see
>    Arch (?)
>    Mint (?)
>    Fedora
>    OpenSUSE
>    Ubuntu
>    other?
>
> I am looking for a topic and to my best recollection nobody has
> volunteered. I would like new speakers to spread the load.
>
> If there is a topic out there people want, let's hear about it,
> especially if you are going to talk.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Peter Larsen via Novalug
> <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> > On 04/27/2015 01:56 PM, greg pryzby via Novalug wrote:
> >> There was a call for a "Kernel" talk. Anyone want to give it?
> >
> > ?? I must have missed that one. What kind of "kernel talk" ??
> >
> >> If not, how about "This is my distro".
> >>
> >> I am looking for people to show off their distro and answer questions.
> >> IF you don't have a laptop or way to allow remote access, I can create
> >> a VM you can use to demo. Or you can use AWS or similar service to
> >> build in the cloud.
> >>
> >> Speakers?
> >
> > This topic is a bit scary to me. It's kinda like discussing the best
> > editor. I'll be happy to cover Fedora now that Beta 22 is out. But I
> > would like to get it narrowed down a bit more before committing. What in
> > particular? Are we talking about how the distro is created and managed,
> > the things in it - in which case what area, or are we talking DEs?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> >   Peter Larsen
> >
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