[GRLUG] What is Linux ?

[Michael Mol]

I hate advocacy groups.  In my experience, they're typically not
avenues for meaningful discussion, but stomping grounds for people who
shoot from the hip while blindly following their dogma.  Disingenuous
arguments, logic flaws, libel and slander, trolling...It gets tiring.

On 3/23/07, Chris Lamrock <clamrock at nmtdie.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see the LUGS move towards advocacy.  Most notably with software
> and hardware vendors.  Let's face it - if we get  software and hardware
> vendors to support Linux we all win.
>
> The "LUG Consortium Towards the Advocacy of Linux Supported Hardware and
> Software Vendors" sounds like a good name. ;-)
>
> LUG users unite!
>
> my 2 cents
>
> -Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Al Tobey" <tobert at gmail.com>
> To: <grlug at grlug.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] What is Linux ?
>
>
> > On 3/23/07, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Just an out of the way discussion item:
> >> what is Linux?
> >>
> >> We are a LUG,  which in a funny way
> >> means that as long as you use Linux,
> >> you are free to discuss anything under
> >> the sun.
> >>
> >> But of course few here will see it that
> >> way.  What the GRLUG mostly discusses
> >> are Linux applications,  and less so the
> >> Linux OS itself.  And Linux applications
> >> are often as not Linux versions of a
> >> package,  and except for shared experience
> >>  have little to do with Linux as an OS.
> >>
> >> So,  what part of a typical Linux distribution
> >> would people call the Linux OS?   Here too,
> >> it's not the endless little editors and the myriad
> >> of GNU tools.
> >>
> >> Just for fun,  what does "Linux" mean
> >> to people here?  An analog to the question
> >> is "what is the Internet?"  Many people
> >> would probably confuse that with their
> >> browser.
> >
> > Good idea for discussion, Bob.  I've been thinking for a while that
> > maybe a group that's focused more broadly on open source would be
> > neat.   In many other areas, the LUGs tend to be more "Open Source
> > User Group" than strictly just Linux.
> >
> > I think expanding the group's scope would be a great way to do more
> > outreach, since many people don't really care about operating systems
> > and are actually interested in the applications like MySQL, Apache,
> > and even higher-level stuff like Django, Asterisk, and SugarCRM.
> >
> > To me, Linux is the most universal open source operating system.
> > All of the open source apps I like to use work best on Linux, so
> > that's what I use.    I've toyed with *BSD and Solaris, but just
> > didn't see anything there that made it worth it to me to port myself
> > and my apps to another flavor of Unix.
> >
> > -Al Tobey
> >
> >>
> >>       -Bob
> >>
> >>
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