[NCLUG] INSTALLFEST: Draft Press Release

[Matt Taggart]

Matt Rosing writes...

> My 2 cents (take it with a grain of salt):

As long as we're mixing cliches, the early bird is worth two worms in a bush.

or something....

> >The goal of the project is to demonstrate
> >other viable alternatives to Microsoft Windows as an operating system for
> >the personal computer (PC), and to showcase the Linux operating system. 
> 
> Are you going to demonstrate more than one alternative (like freebsd,
> os2, etc) or just linux?

I think we'll install any free-software OS people want. Matt C. mentioned he 
was going to have *BSD CD's there I think. I don't know if we should put that 
in the press release though.

> More importantly, "viable alternative" doesn't sound like anything too
> interesting.  How about "The goal of this event is to showcase
> linux; a very robust, easy to use, flexible, and free operating system
> that runs many types of applications on a wide range of
> computers. This includes everything from spreadsheets on laptops to
> large network servers and supercomputing applications.

Sounds good.

> >Linux has been developed by an International team of computer
> >programmers, over the Internet, led by Linus Torvalds.  Torvalds created
> >Linux while he was a student in Finland. Over the past 9 years, developers
> >from almost every country in the world have contributed programs,
> >documentation and testing to the development of Linux. 
> 
> Kind of wordy, how about:
> 
> The development of Linux started nine years ago by a Linus Torvalds in
> Finland. Since then, tens of thousands of programmers have
> contributed programs, documentation, and testing.

This sounds good too.

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Matt Taggart
taggart at fc.hp.com