[svlug] Ubuntu 10.04 Installfest at Noisebridge (San Francisco), Sunday May 30th, 11-5

[Bill Ward]

My guess is the people putting it on are enthusiastic about Ubuntu - what's
wrong with that?  Fedora fans are welcome to have their own installfest,
etc.  Or people can go to your house for all purpose installfests.  Choice
is a good thing.

Anyway, the 10.04 means they just came out with a new version last month, so
I'm sure that has something to do with this as well.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Grant Bowman (grantbow at gmail.com):
>
> > Perhaps some members might be in the area for this event.
>
> I'm otherwise committed, but wish you luck.
>
> It seems odd that you guys should offer _only_ Ubuntu, however.
> I mean, I understand why Oracle employees at Oracle-funded installfests
> during LWCE would provide (if I recall correctly) only Oracle's Red Hat
> variant -- both because they were there on company time and because the
> event was focussed on platforms certified for Oracle RDBMS.
>
> However, you guys are volunteers, on your _own_ time.  So, why are you
> acting like you were hired by Canonical, Ltd. Marketing?
>
> This sort of thing was bad enough in the Nineties when a few LUGs turned
> into, effectively, Red Hat Linux monopolies.  Didn't we learn from that?
> Linux is bigger than Ubuntu-only, guys.
>
> I mean, I've been providing current versions of several _dozen_ Linux
> and BSD distros[1], plus help installing any of them without prejudice,
> at every CABAL meeting, twice a month, for something like twelve years.
> It's not like it's difficult.
>
> [1] http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/installfest/#distros
>
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