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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> said: |
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> - the dual core amd64 demo machine was running XGL and some movies like FF7 |
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> Advent Children (due later this month in the US btw!) ... this was such a |
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> pimp demo, it caught everyone's attention ... and the best part was, opensuse |
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> was across from us with nothing to show but free hats ... so bad when we |
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> snipe their tech demos and get the credit ;x |
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Yea, people loved the spinning cube. |
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> - quad g5 ppc64 running e17 and burning livecds for people on the fly (by far |
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> the i686/installer was the most popular but amd64 was pretty strong too ... |
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> we gave away prob like 8 ppc and 4 ppc64 cds) |
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It would probably be good to bring a crapload of livecds with us next |
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time, maybe the ones from cafepress so they look all cool? And CD |
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sleeves/cases would be awesome so people don't have to just throw them |
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in their bag. |
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> - lots of interest in kickstart-like features in our installer ... people want |
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> to throw install media into a fresh box, boot it, and come back later and |
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> have it be done/usuable |
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A lot of people love the installer and said they have been looking |
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forward to it. I was surprised how many people were into it. |
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> - devs need to make personal Gentoo business cards cause when people ask for |
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> *your* card, you look retarded when you say you have none (i know i felt |
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> retarded ;x) ... some just want a generic Gentoo business card and the ones |
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> we had were great, but when you get into real conversations, the guy wants to |
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> follow up later with *you* |
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Yea, I felt like an idiot too and will be making some for the next event |
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I go to. Could someone send me that Gentoo business card template? |
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> - in general, we had a pretty strong showing; in devs (i lub you all), in |
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> users, and in people who had heard of us but were interested in learing more |
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> or why we were "better" than say Ubuntu/Fedora/etc... (their words ... it's |
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> best imo if you take the approach of how our distro *differs* rather than |
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> falling into how we're "better" than others ... it's up to the user to figure |
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> out which distro is better *for them*) |
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No one really seems to know how we worked, and were surprised that we |
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are entirely volunteer based and don't get paid. They seemed to respect |
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us even more once they heard about that. The people that walked up to us |
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and just told us, "You guys rock!" were awesome too :) |
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Just my two cents, :) |
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Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ |
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http://www.halcy0n.com |
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