2009/4/27 Sean Miller <s...@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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
