Meeting Notes for 20030116

[Eric O. Dean]

Why are RH and GUI evil? Just curious.

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From: "Travis Saling" <trav at u.washington.edu>
To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Meeting Notes for 20030116


> While it might rankle some people on this list, if we're going to ask 
> people to sign a waiver I think it might also be a good idea to (at 
> least to some degree) ensure that some sort of standard procedure is 
> developed prior to the install-fest, and make sure that the volunteer 
> installers are following it.  Of the Linux-ers that I know most all are 
> knowledgeable, but while some think things through and are careful, 
> others fly by the seat of their pants.  This is fine for the personal 
> system of a knowledgeable Linux person (some of whom like nothing better 
> than to spend hour upon hour tweaking and debugging), but of course most 
> people taking advantage of this service will not fall into this category.
> 
> Basically, it seems like the goal should be providing a system that 
> "just works" - if the user wants to play around with it after that, let 
> them be the ones to break it.  :-)  But give them a working system with 
> a decent package manager (no slackware for newbies in other words) and 
> probably either Gnome 2 or KDE 3.  Maybe later on people can offer 
> sessions on "The Wonder that is Emacs", "Why all GUIs are Evil", "Why 
> RedHat is Evil" and perhaps even "1337 h4><0r sp43k" (whoever corrects 
> my mistakes there can teach it).
> 
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