RE: Death Match

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

hey, I don't mind being told what to look forward to in 6.4. How about the 
boot on the other foot - we tell you what we'd like to see?

I'm sure if we set some traps round the Computing section in Blackwells 
we'll catch some Deathmatch "volunteers"! Would they be installing or just 
using the systems ?

On Wednesday, March 01, 2000 7:35 PM, Ruediger Berlich [SMTP:rb [at] suse.de] 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> with regards to my little talk at the meeting in April (8th) I had
> suggested to Richard to include a short presentation of new features of
> the next version of SuSE (due in a few weeks). However we agreed, that
> this might look too mutch like a sales-pitch. No matter, what I'll do, 
due
> to the company I'm working for, it always will become something like that
> :-)
>
> Now, here is another suggestion : The Linux Distribution Death Match . 
The
> goal is to find out, how user-friendly each Linux distribution is on a
> fully supported PC (i.e., it should be clear upfront, that all components
> run with a specific Linux distribution). Then three new users, that
> haven't had any exposure to Linux before (but should've got a bit of
> computer background - e.g., they should know, what a partition is, so 
they
> don't have to read the complete SuSE manual in advance) should test all
> three Linux Distributions, e.g. RH, SuSE and Debian. Finally, each of 
them
> gives a rating from 1-6 in predefined categories for each distribution.
>
> I believe, that that is neutral enough to make it independant of SuSE.
>
> R.
>

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