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Re[2]: Building a Winning Team for the Event
I'd second everything Ofer said.
There is no need trying to show everything latest, on the bleeding edge.
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.
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
run-time Hebrew support for a third-party app (netscape) would be much more
appealing.
Regards,
Evgeny
"Ofer Maor" <oferm@hcs.co.il> wrote:
> >Finally, everybody knows that Linux is VERY stable, so the purpose
> >of the demo is not to impress the people with an unbeatable
> >stability; The purpose is to demonstrate the "Next Generation" of
>
>
> [snip]
>
> I think what you are doing in here is VERY dangerous.
> "Everybody knows that linux is VERY stable"... what a sentance...
> A. not everybody knows what linux IS - and I am sure some of the people
> who
> will come there will have very little knowledge of the field.
> B. Most comes from the UNIX world, don't consider linux as a stable UNIX
> environment
>
>
> >We will emphasize that some of the parts are still in beta, and that
>
> ^^^^^^^
>
> Take A+B, along with what you just said, and we get to be Microsoft #2...
> it's microsoft who demonstrates always non-working platforms, and ships
> them
> out as is. I think we will make ourselves a joke, if we'll have a major
> crash.
> The linux community is patronizing over micrsluts BECAUSE linux is stable
> and microsoft isn't. But if we patronize that much (and oh boy - we do),
> we
> cannot allow being caught with our pants down.
>
> my 2 cents...
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