Re: [TCLUG:7019] Speaking of the GNOME Demo...

[David Guy Brizan <dbrizan@mr.net>]

Okay, I feel the need to defend that. I can't argue with you too much,
because it _was_ a tour and not the expo.

But I think RH is guilty of not understanding its audience. I think a
good opening question would have been, "How many people here are NOT
hardcore nerds?" My money would have been on less than a handful. And in
that case, we're less interested in fluff like desktop colours, even
though they're nice to have. (Personally, though, I'm an fvwm fan. I
like my desktop minimal and uncluttered.)

Clay writes:
> Why don't you express your opinions with RedHat themselves [....]

That's the solution, of course. Thanks. Here I go!

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David Guy Brizan          brizan@freenet.msp.mn.us          612-814-8223


Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> Quoting David Guy Brizan (dbrizan@mr.net):
> > I can't agree with you more, Joel. Throughout the presentation, my
> > friend was tapping me on the shoulder, saying, "... are they going to
> > get to the part about fixing the thread library?"
> 
> You have to remember that RH is trying to bring Linux to the masses. Do you
> think your average user even knows what a thread library is?
> 
> Tours = sales/market stuff, if you want to get to the techincal stuff, go to a
> linux expo.
> 
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