[wellylug] Very Important: Meeting of 13th Feb 2005

[David Murray]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:11:01AM +1300, Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd wrote:
>>
>>> What about WellyLUG walking with a large version of Tux in the next
>>> Christmas Parade here in Wellington? We could hand out CDs of SuSE, with a
>>> pamphlet detailing how to find WellyLUG, all the way from the northern end
>>> of Lampton Quay right down to Courtenay Place.
>>
>> Why push Suse a commercial distro which you have to pay for or it's
>
> The whole point of handing out CDs is more interesting that worrying
> about which distro to select ...

Yes. That was my point - handing out CDs of a distro(s) that newbies will 
find easy to use.

I personally have found OpenSuSE to be very easy to use after freely 
downloading it via BitTorrent from Novell's website.

I don't think that a distro has to have only and exclusively Open Source 
software. I think that if adding a few useful but propriatary packages 
will give Linux more appeal... then so beit - add those packages.

Why should the open source nature of Linux prevent people from running 
proprietary software if those packages are what they want to use?

Choice is, after all, choice.

I personally prefer as much Open Source as is reasonably possible.

But as soon as Adobe Photoshop (or Pagemaker, etc) is available for 
Linux... I'll be one of the first in the queue to buy a copy, because 
they are good programmes that work well and are well known in the 
industry; and skills with those programmes are employable.


Regards

David Murray