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Monday's Round Table

Art Stone
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 10:51:44 -0700 (PDT)


VanLUG will meet 7 - 9 pm Monday evening (August 17)
on UBC campus, in Brock Hall Annex, Room 351.

The agenda calls for the last 20 minutes to be devoted to a
Round Table discussion, which will lead into the informal
discussions that follow the organized part of the meeting.

Kim Kulak has volunteered to assist in organizing the Round
Table. He'll probably be our Round Table Chair.

There's a good article by Phil Hughes, comparing Linux
distributions, in the August issue of the Linux Journal.
I propose that we devote this particular Round Table to

COMPARING DISTRIBUTIONS,
WHAT'S BEEN LEFT UNSAID.

I hope to distribute an extension of the table in the Hughes
article, comparing the package offerings of the most recent
distributions from

Slackware,
Red Hat, and
S.u.S.E.

Further, perhaps its only proper that we treat FreeBSD
as a Distribution. (After all, what is that "D" for in "BSD"?)
I've asked Curt Sampson to give a few minutes to it.

If there is someone out there who has looked at the GNU Hurd,
it would be good to hear about it.

(We may want to give more time to these and other
_open_source_ versions of Unix at later meetings.)

Regarding the Linux distributions, what probably most
needs to be said are things Phil Hughes would not dare
put in a printed article: what are the major LIMITATIONS
to each of

Slackware,
Red Hat, and
S.u.S.E. ?

It's easy for me to point out problems with S.u.S.E. I will.
I hope others will fill us in regarding Slackware and Red Hat,
and perhaps Debian as well.