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Re: Zombit



"Alexander L. Belikoff" wrote:
> 
> 2. Gnome and KDE are big and almost equal in features. I'd suggest not
>    to confuse people with presenting both of them. I personally would
>    use only KDE because it has a *less* fancy look and it is included
>    in most of Linux distributions as a default GUI (no flamewars
>    please) (~30 seconds).
> 

thats exactly why gnome should be used...
more bells and whistles, fancy chrome, etc.
it will amaze people to see how cool it is to drag windows to a desktop
via e,
or any other cool desktop thing.


> 3. Since Linux is not quite ready to replace a *home* desktop for an
>    average user, the presentation should not be claim that Linux is a
>    replacement for home desktop. It should say however, that Linux is
>    a great desktop for power users, programmers and Web people. (~15
>    seconds).
>

Web people are a good target.
easier to program php and perl scripts on a local apache,
there are many "web developers" and internetaholics that will like
linux.
 
> 4. An office suite should definitely be presented. Since StartOffice
>    is close in features to MS Office 95, I'd suggest using it in the
>    presentation. What would be even more impressive is to have a
>    connection to some other machine/server running Samba and
>    StarOffice to show networked office capabilities (something like
>    remote document fetching/publishing/whatever) (~40-50 seconds)

i think it's too much time for something that is availible to windows
too.
people will think "so what? windows does that too".
 
> 5. A reference to the linux.org.il should be given.

someone should update the site, btw.
people that just hear about linux may encounter old info and howtos,
and get wrong information or none at all.
 
I wonder if all the fuss worth 3 minutes of a show with %1 rating...
Cheers,
Yoni.

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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck,
is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners...