[ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

[Tim Dobson]

Sean Miller wrote:
> 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!)

It seems some parts of the Ubuntu community aren't completely exempt 
from the territorial bit either. :(

My advice would be to organise something that is going to happen anyway 
(ie don't give them a , publicise it, and mention that **everyone** is 
welcome. If at the end of the day, you have a measured discussion about 
the pros and cons of different distros, at least you have gathered 
something of value and found some common ground.

> 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.

Exactly. Ultimately we are all in the same boat, ultimately we share 
similar values.

When people start supporting distros like people blindly support 
football teams, they lose sight of the fundamental basics behind the 
whole thing.

In the context of football, this would be to stop caring about the 
football itself and simply focus on "one upping" supporters of the other 
team.

In the context of GNU/Linux, this would be forgetting what has drawn us 
all together.

Good luck with your event, I know several people who would probably be 
interested in Dorset, so make sure you forward it to the right place :) 
(I think it's Dorest LUG?!)

Tim

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