[H-GEN] Room Bookings Update

[Arjen Lentz]

Hi Dennis

On 14/01/2009, at 3:10 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2009 07:46:25 pm Arjen Lentz wrote:
>> Having a box of Ubuntu CDs handy (ordered from shipit,ubuntu.com)
>> might be good. Apart from being very kind to simple users (with  
>> liveCD
>> and installer combined), if you stick the CD into a Windows box it
>> also contains some of the most common OSS stuff for Windows; so it's
>> all-in-one. Naturally, some among you will insist that Ubuntu sucks
>> and brand Y is clearly better and must be used, however I would
>> suggest to you that if a person is somehow enticed to use Ubuntu,
>> that's a win for Linux. So don't be too picky.
>
> I can get a bunch of Fedora live cd's sent also,  just to offer  
> choice :)
> while i'm likely biased towards Fedora, RHEL (and clones).  I would  
> prefer
> people make an informed decision about the OS that they choose to run.
> if  they then choose Open Solaris, Ubuntu, slackware, Debian,  
> CentOS, Fedora
> or even windows doesn't matter.  they made there choice.

a) some people don't give enough of a stuff to want to make such a  
decision
b) the decision requires knowledge/experience these people don't have  
and you can't ram it into them. It will be gained over time, and  
probably through trying one flavour. So from my perspective, I don't  
give a stuff which flavour they start with, but as a practicality I  
think the Ubuntu CDs offer a good approach with their Windows apps,  
liveCD and full desktop install which has proven itself pretty noob  
friendly.

Once they're running Linux, using it a bit, they'll get a feel for  
what it's about, what they like and dislike, and thus choose Gnome or  
KDE, and Ubuntu or Fedora or plain Debian or whatever. I feel that  
giving people that choice upfront is simply silly.

Perhaps you feel that if they first use Ubuntu they're likely to stay  
with it? I have no idea whether that might be the case or not, however  
I again don't give a stuff. Our personal preference should have no  
bearing on others, it makes no sense to push one flavour over another  
since everybody assesses these things on different parameters. The  
features I care about are not the features you care about, so even if  
we use the same flavour we may be doing so for completely different  
reasons!


Cheers,
Arjen.
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