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Re: Linux Demo Day



Vadim Penzin wrote:
> 
> > We need ideas as to what we should demonstrate.
> 
> WE MUST SHOW AS MUCH HEBREW DESKTOP APPLICATIONS AS POSSIBLE.

I agree.
Good hebrew things to show:
KDE hebrew support (as in hebrew menus and localization),
GTK Hebrew support (as in the the reflected text widgets Dov had made)
Most important: The hebrew Netscape, which (hopefuly) will be released
until then.
The hebrew Netscape is a killer.
 
> Unfortunately, I am very far from being up-to-date in this area.
> It would be nice of someone competent to compose a 'wish-list' of
> what can be shown at the Demo Day.
 
Most trivial, GNOME and KDE, and how cool they are.
I mean, we can show themes (for gnome and e) and how kde can mimic
windows and mac interfaces.
We can show virtual desktops.
We can show gmc (with its excellent virtual fs) and kfm (that can even
render html). and how easy is to use them.
We can show many core functionalities of the desktop enviroments, (e.g.
panel applets)
and best of all, that users can choose their favorite one (and also
others, such as windowmaker).

Good X applications to show are:
Gnumeric, Gimp, Balsa, X-Chat, gFTP, and some gnome games for gnome.
Koffice (does anyone use it?), and other kde apps for kde.
X11Amp (xmms), netscape (hebrew), licq, and the various office tools
(wordperfect, staroffice, applixware, etc) in general.

Another thing to show is ease of administration:
We can show then that ppp connections are very easy (kppp, usernet),
that network and users administration is easy (linuxconf),
that installation of software is easy (rpm, deb).
that gnome and kde are easy to configure (control-center).
that user login is easy to configure (kdm, gdm).
that even apache is easy to configure (commanche).

We can show powerful utils features that are usable in homes:
for email we can show fetchmail and procmail,
we can show support for many filesystems, including fat32, hfs (mac),
hpfs (os/2), ntfs...
we can show ip-masquarading (which is needed for homes with multiple
computers and a dial-up connection).
the multiuser capabilites (many people use win9x for multiuser
enviroments, in their homes)
we can show many other things like that.
(the problem is, they are a bit hard to show, and we shouldn't show how
configure them in the first place)

we can show that linux doesn't neceserily "replace" windows:
lilo can boot many different operating systems, (so they don't need to
erase windows)
wine (can it run anything but solitair?),
vmware (if they fixed the hebrew bug),
dosemu (some people still run dos apps).

I think that people who will see all of the following will be convinced,
and will buy a CD.
(for 10-15NIS they may buy CDs even if they are not convinced)

Also,
In the selection of a place,
we need many people (like in dizengof square) but also power supply
(which i doubt we can have there).
if we install linux on the place, we can show the ease of installation
too (i've seem the cladera screenshots).

let's break the installations/day record... :-)

Cheers,
yoni.

-- 

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

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