FC5: beats& Press Release (draft impress doc)

[J. Hartline]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

>>Don't worry the objective of going there, is mostly to
>> * learn new things and
>> * see how they organise the install party.
>> * meet other people in the linux world.
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>>
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>
>Ok, I was at that Mandriva Day as they call it.
>
>in brief:
>I went with my girlfriend and we were late :)
>we came just in time for the multimedia conference and the audience
>consisted of 11 persons. Most of them are newbies to linux. (75%)
>
>The conferences were for beginner level.
>
>The guys responsible for the event are no more than 23 years old.
>They were lecturers of a Computer Science Institute which is
>affiliated to Mandriva.
>see  http://www.supinfo.com/en/Default.aspx
>
>Ive chatted with them about Fedora and Kadischi (of course) during the break.
>One of the lecturers was mostly interested with Kadischi since he is
>actually giving practical classes on how to build Mandriva Live cds.
>He explained me about the scripts they were working on and I showed
>him Kadischi's code.
>But when I asked him whether I can have a look at THEIR code, he
>bubbled "No No nooo" and ran away.
>
>I told myself "What a lamer"!
>
>The install party:
>
>6 guys (Im not among) were ready to get the machines experience their
>first ever linux distro
>
>The install party was really a disaster. Mandriva 2006 was not stable at all.
> - 5/6 machines had xorg issues
> - urpmi is not installed on a fresh install, hence a complete newbie
>can't update
> - no assistance by the 'lecturers' for drivers installation and questions
>
>It was really a big disaster and shame for Mandriva when one of the
>lecturers answered the question " In windows we have openoffice 2.*,
>can I have it in Linux? "
>
>Answer: For the moment there is only openoffice 2.* for Windows
>platform, but Mandriva will be the first to have it.
>
>Can you imagine this ?!!
>( I was shocked by this reply )
>For this, my girlfriend has intervened and showed that in
>openoffice.org it is possible to download OOo 2.*
>
>I spent most of my time troubleshooting those machines, and installing
>cool applications (yakuake, ksmoothdock, katapult, 3ddesktop,....)
>just to promote linux's image.
>
>Cheers, (waiting for FC5)
>Chitlesh Goorah
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J. Hartline