[PLUG] Linux Expo/Demo/whatever

[Matt Wallace]

I could be wrong.. but it seems to me that you guys are missing the
point.. Yea.. it's true that Linux might be .05% faster at task X than
Windows.. but the thing about performance comparisons is they are SO many
factors these days that they start to become meaningless.. What we should
be showing off about linux is flexibilty, customization, stability and
and the fact that it's free and open.  Also I'd be careful about showing
emphasizing how much Linux can be like Windows.. Why is this a good thing?
Sure it's cool that you can share files with Samba.. but how about showing
off single sign-on capabilities with SSH.. You have to realize that making
the switch to Linux is more about the UNIX paradigm in general than the
particulars of Linux.  Anyways.. that's my 2 cents..

Matt

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Richard June wrote:

> Why not have a demo of two machines doing something very common... like
> gaming? load QIII on 2 identical machines, just for kicks have the Linux
> box rip a CD and make an MP3 while playing.. should be able to handle it.
> Hell my li'l P233MMX Can push 25-30 fps in QIII a faster box should be
> able to do significantly better.
> 
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Steve Bourland wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, A Braunsdorf wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > You could set up a samba server on a third machine, and then show
> > > that both the MS Windows machine with MS Office and the Linux
> > > machine with whatever office could both load the same files.  It'd
> > > be an even better demo if the Linux machine were noticeably quicker.
> > > Is it?
> > 
> > Well, I would always want to assume so, but I am a bit blinded by hatred
> > of Macrohard.  I can say that when it comes to mp3 compression (more than
> > one at a time), my Win95 box gets DESTROYED by my Linux box.  However,
> > this isn't an apples to apples comparison:  495 MHz K6-3 on the Linux box,
> > 300 MHz PII on the Win95, SCSI vs. EIDE as well.  However, the Win95 box
> > has a hard time playing Winamp while ripping a CD and moving a window on
> > the screen, but my Linux box will happily encode 4 files while playing
> > XMMS without a hitch, I can even play a very slow game of Xboing!  It
> > would definitely be wise to have a pre-determined demo of something
> > superior though...marketing, you have to hate it.
> > 
> > 
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