Nick Rout wrote:
Another plug I know, but I can also say that i've only been able to "get most
media to
play" since I used gentoo.
A noteworthy corollary from last night's NZCS meeting:
The hyper-informed Chris Noel (tho unknown to CLUG; I have yet to master
an umlaut e in Lnx, sorry), spoke on Mono - as an example project
community functioning with Trac client/project management. Chris's quick
& content-rich presentation broached the Win/OSS divide, identifying
compatibility obstacles at the code language level - mainly C#.
Obviously an expert, Chris's main success at getting the complex and
rapidly developing OSS .Net alternative to work, was based upon Gentoo.
Overall, the meeting was _very_ strong on Java. An impression I have
come away with is that the Win-OSS segment (which most often selects
licensing that allows for closed-source sales), is probably the dominant
segment in the FOSS world. If true, that explains a lot about
experiences around Linux.
Thanks again Nick,
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Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>
