Dan Treacy wrote:
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> But one of the more interesting changes which could possibly be taken as a
> good thing for Linux is the questions that are being asked on the list, or
> more specifically about what distros etc.
1995+ small group, mostly skilled, Red Hat, Slackware, Yaddrissil (sp?),
debian, ??.
Suse made its first appearance in Oz about that time (raffle at SLUG),
but in german.
Yaddrissil seems to have disappeared over the horizon
1998 start of growth, brings a lot of newbies into SLUG - Redhat most
popular. RH does the work in making sure its brand is known to newbies,
i,e APC booklet, cover CDs.
Caldera in OZ doesn't have big dollars behind it, so its prescence is
low key, but getting onto APC #2 was probably a good move. Shame the
distro was so hard to customise.
Turbolinux provided the SLUG distro for PCIT 1999, but has put most
effort into China/Asia. John Terpstra departure overseas robbed TL of
much drive here in OZ (as it appears to me). TL may have just taken a
while to find its feet and decide what is was going to do, so it dabbled
in a bit of everything about that time, whereas now it is a bit more
focussed.
2000 Most SLUG members have a few years experience and may have become
fed up with the Red Hat upgrade treadmill and so give Debian ago, or are
just vocal about it.
My reason for trying Suse was that Len Chan was promoting it and a few
people I respected at Slug had said it was okay. My reason for sticking
with it is that Debian keeps failing to install itself so I can look at
it (perhaps on day).
>
> Comments? Rants? Flames??
>
> This leads me to my suggestion. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when we have a
> ConfigFest since in some way it was mine (and Ken's I think) idea to take
> the InstallFest Idea further. So I'm at it again More Fests for everyone.
http://www.woa.com.au/linux/how-tos/festphilosophy.html for why.
Slugs active membership turns over because different people have
different needs/interests. In the early days it was a hacker/geek/keen
persons OS and apart from the usual crop of students, there were a
number of pioneer business people trying to use it in their business.
When the boom was on (PC IT99, APC books, cover CDs), most people were
newbies and a lot of Slug effort went into catering for those people.
Those people have matured a bit and newbies are a smaller proportion of
SLUG, so Slug is getting a bit more balance.
As well, peoples lifestyle change and their opportunites and freedom to
attend Slug activites have changed.
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