[ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

[Lucy]

2009/4/27 Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net>:
> Why are Linux people so "territorial"??
>
> Any attempts I make in Somerset to organise a release party for
> something like Ubuntu gets folks saying "can't be doing with that -
> Debian's the only decent distro" or "Sorry, that's one of those Debian
> derivitives isn't it?  apt-get reallys gets to me... give me Red Hat
> and yum any day".  Or "the secret to life, the universe and everything
> is SuSE" (they think late that, honest!)
>
> We should surely be celebrating every Linux release, rather than
> forming into "camps" -- but it does seem that people get very tied to
> their own particular favourite distro.
>
> Probably why my local LUG has died a death...

That's a real shame Sean. I remember having many a friendly
conversation with the Bristol and Bath LUG members about RH v Ubuntu v
SUSE (there are lots of Redhat/Fedora users there).

A the Manchester release party there was at least one person in a
Debian t-shirt and while people were keen to show off Ubuntu on their
laptop I'm pretty sure most people there used/use at least one other
distro.

Ubuntu attracts a wide variety of people and has a really friendly
community which is why I think they tend to be more keen on getting
together to celebrate new releases. Certainly, I don't remember so
much positive buzz around the last Fedora release and the last Debian
release seemed to create plenty of negativity.