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Re: The Palo Alto Tea Party
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> > to my LUG back home and to anyone who joined SVLUG's list in the last
> > hour, here's a short report...
>
> Cool. I wish we could organize similar events here in Israel. Do
> Microsoft organize any open events here at all? I haven't heard of any
> but OTOH I have nowhere to hear from either. The other problem is the
> CDs. We either need PF1 to supply them somehow (which is difficult
> since they will probably be willing to sponsor events in which they
> get at least some exposure themselves as a consequence) or we need to
> persuade the US vendors to send us CDs. I suppose we can pay the s&h.
talk to S.u.S.E, their American office at suse.com (not suse.de) is
playing catch-up in the US right now. they are big in Europe (for VERY
good reason, I love their stuff) and they want to make up for the market
they "lost" to RH, so they give SVLUG hundreds of CDs to give out for
free.
>
> We have approx. two years to take care of these issues before Windows
> 2000 goes out. I think there will be some kind of party here too.
make that less than a year. since they changed the name to W2K it's also
scheduled to hit the stores in mid 99.
> Or we can throw our own party when Linux 2.2 goes out! What do you
> say?
>
> (Judging by the current pace I'm afraid we'll be able to combine the
> two events :-)
judging from WHAT current pace? are you even testing kernels? I remember
we all laughed at Linus back in March when he said to a full room of
people that 2.2 will be out by june, then at the "Future of Linux" meeting
in the summer, he didn't risk giving an ETA better than "RSN", but since
then I have compiled and run systems on the latest beta kernels, and I can
tell you that the last report this week saying "Before christmas" is
finaly believable.
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