Meetings attendances etc (was Re: [plug] Games Night THIS Sunday 22nd Aug)

[Trevor Phillips]

Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> But, would it be more appropriate to have a person who is experienced at
> installing a distribution, and therefore is familiar with its quirks, showing
> how fast the distribution can be installed, or, using a person who has no
> familiarity with the distribution (and possibly with Linux), showing how fast
> and easy (or slow and difficult) the distribution is to install, on a relative
> basis?

Depends on if you're trying to find out which Dist is the easiest to use and
maintain for a newbie, or which is the easiest to use and maintain for a guru.
Both are important, yet very different.

> Someone who knows Slackware, could probably configure it in about five minutes,
> to install, whereas someone inexperienced, like this household, takes about half
> an hour, or an hour, to configure Red Hat for installation, at each attempt,
> and, all up, take about half a day to a day to install it, and then probably not
> get it completely right. So, then, which would be the faster and simpler
> distribution to install?

Slackware would be slower than some, IMHO, due to application binary
availability (but I could be wrong...)

> Also, different distributions come with different kernel versions, and different
> application versions, etc, if my understanding is correct, so it could become
> messy.

Very! ^_^
I'd include SOME sort of Net link, for downloading of additional files.
It might highlight the strengths and weaknesses of different dist's tho.

It was just a fun suggestion. I didn't say it was practical. -_^

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