Yeah, and then we got a bunch of Mandrake CD's at the installfest. Not to mention most of us are running Debian, and that Knoppix, a debian based CD, is by far the fastest way to get Linux up and running on any machine.
I think we need another meeting.
We can have another meeting; I'll put it on the agenda for the upcoming committee meeting (it's happening this Wednesday night - WHERE IS THE REMINDER BOT?) but I think the situation hasn't changed; the people that are the most vocal at recommending Linux are often new people/Mandrake people, and the people that most often have to do the supporting are Fedora/Debian people. We are never going to/going to be able to select a "single" distro for support; and I for one can't specifically support anything I'm not really familiar with, and don't have the time or the inclination to change the distros that I run personally. Mandrake may be popular enough for it to be considered as an option for "first tier support from WLUG", whatever that is, but then we have the problem that half the LUG will run Fedora and the other half will run Mandrake and one half won't be able to help the other half. With apologies to everyone here who's involved in a distribution of their own, fragmentation really doesn't help support. However, Linux is Linux etc. The short of it is that we need to have people volunteering to help. If we had a vociferous Mandrake expert who was always available and jumping up and down to help everyone with their problems, then there wouldn't really be an problem! Craig