[GLLUG] Penguicon 8.0 in 2010

Ron Blanchett muteid10t at gmail.com
Tue May 19 10:20:27 EDT 2009


speculation is pointless, questions directed at the right people are
helpful.

-Ron

On 5/19/09, Charles <charles at bityard.net> wrote:
>
> Richard Houser wrote:
> > I guess we'll need to wait to find out what Jer means by the whole
> > alternative OS thing.  My keysigning sessions were platform nuetral
> > for example, and I think there were a total of two Windows and
> > possibly one OS X user among those participating.
> >
> > There's definitely some minor logistics problems with running multiple
> > OSes in the lounge (if that means BSD/OpenSolaris), and some major
> > (and pricy!) ones if that was to include MacOS (Apple Hardware) or
> > Windows (higher end machines, OS License, AV license, firewall
> > license, finding a Windows Admin for a Linux convention....., Ghost
> > license, application software licenses unless the whole point is to
> > spend more money to run the same apps under Windows, etc.).
>
>
> 'Zactly. The whole point of the computer lounge from the start was to
> show off some of the cool things you can do with free software and
> common (often "obsolete") hardware.
>
> Also, this con has a giant Tux for a mascot and a "Pengui" in the name,
> so I would have a hard time believing anyone seriously meant that the
> lounge is supposed to give equal time to non-free, proprietary software.
>
> Charles
>
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