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Re: Building a Winning Team for the Event
Ofer and Evgeny,
Thank you for your tips. However, I get opposite opinions from
other people, and a decision must be taken.
In any case, I can't answer anybody. I prefer that people with
different opinions will call me, and explain their opinions (I
understand Hebrew much better than English), and if they think
that I am so fool to not understand what they say, write it to
the list. When you argue with somebody so publically, and force
hundreds subscribers to hear your claims, he must answer you in
the same forum, and this ping-pong may continue forever.
Sometimes a quick phone call is much more productive.
> There is no need trying to show everything latest, on the bleeding edge.
Sometimes the latest is more stable, especially when the product
is still beta. In Computax we didn't have GIMP 1.0 (it was
announced only a week after the exhibition), so we used a beta.
Unfortunately, it crashed and freezed so much so we longed (or
yearned? what is the word?) to MS-Word under Win95 or even
Communicator under UNIX. This is why we are waiting for the last
minute; Maybe we'll have GNOME 0.99.9 and kernel 2.2.2, both are
going to be more stable than their previous releases.
> 2.2.* as compared to 2.0.36, for example, gives practically nothing to an
> average (and even not so average) user except much broader hardware
> compatibility which one can't demonstrate anyway on a single computer.
2.2.* is more exciting. There were zillions of news items and
articles in the media and the press about "the new kernel of
Linux". Now people will see that it is also running, not only
making much noise. Most of the people are already aware of Linux
(believe me; I have some of the lists), and even use it. They
don't come to see a kernel which its generation started on April
1996 (2.0.0). They come to see pyrotechnics like Enlightenment
(BTW: The current snapshot of DR-0.15 is not only more functional
than the "final" 0.14, but even more stable, at least according to
what I read on the appropriate mailing lists).
> Wine, for the same reason of stability, is not what I'd show off. It's (in
> the current state) rather a toy than anything else. IMO, demonstrating
For most of the apps, especially Office and other MS apps, it is a
toy. For *specific* apps (like mIRC), it is much more than a toy.
In any case, it will be said in the demo that this is an
experimental tool in an early stage of development (this is how I
call something which its development process began 5 years ago :-).
Moreover, if a Win32 app will crash, you always can say: "Now you
witnessed a typical behavior of a Win32 application...".
> run-time Hebrew support for a third-party app (netscape) would be much more
> appealing.
There is no conflict between the other issues and this one. But
since you talk in hints, I'll do it too :-)
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Eli Marmor
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