There are a million things I feel are "better" - transparency, ease of configuration (yes, really - I find it far more logical to look in /etc/appname
Good point. Windows kind of has the "Tools\Options" menu item for this, but it's all over the place. Having said that, I've installed linux things that decide to put their configuration in /usr/share/lib or something stupid like that, (or other things such as the apache config file is called 'httpd.conf' instead of the obvious 'apache.conf') so the blade cuts both ways...
I don't feel I should push these values on others. I'd like them to be AWARE of the option though.
Thats definitely a fine line. Street preaching anyone? :-) But yeah, it's all a big confusing mess - On the one hand you have the 'treat linux like a product that you're trying to sell' mentality, in which case you need things like killer apps, and lots of zealotry. On the other hand you have the 'free for anyone who wants it but if you don't want it we don't care and won't try convince you' in which case you don't care about killer apps, but then you have to bear in mind that if you do ever decide to push it (I percieve the installfest as a 'push' from WLUG) then you have to accept the fact that a large amount of otherwise potential interested parties are going to be apathetic... At any rate, the primary focus of it seems to be to install Fedora core, and get a windows clone. As I've mentioned, people won't care much about windows clones when they have a perfectly good copy of windows bundled with their PC. The primary reason I run linux anywhere is because of the 'server in a cupboard at home' thing - A lot of wlug users also have these. My linux server runs debian and has no X or any other graphics/multimedia stuff, and that's fine - the killer app for it has to be SSH - that and a webserver. (want to send files to people on the internet but your MSN file sending doesn't work through your router? Or run a casual photo gallery from home?) I happily run windows on my desktop/games PC, but couldn't live without the linux server. Perhaps an idea would be to introduce users to this idea, and show them how to set up a basic server for things like mp3 sharing and gallery, etc? This way you can also stress the fact that linux is much more flexible than windows and will run on any old pentium 100 you can pick up, and the fact that it's more secure (as soon as you mention the word 'server' people care about security, but otherwise they don't seem to). Could show them the cool things about such servers - SSHing into it to resume a screened IRC session for example, or perhaps install CPanel or something like that... As the primary audience will be university students, probably from the compsci department who will end up flatting - you may find there is more interest for something like this than you would have thought of. Also if you can get one person to make a linux server to run at their house, that instantly exposes their entire flat to linux in some form, even if it's just using gallery or something simple like that. Once they've seen it running (gallery is pretty cool) they may be interested to go further. Anyway, Just my 2c. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.