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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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