[ale] My iBook

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 15:10 -0500, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:43:50 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Issues like this make me think there is a need for a polishing-fest or
> > a nextstep-fest.  Clearly there are a lot of people who are jaded with
> > just the everyday installed version of Linux.  I've never been to one of
> > the install-fests, i'd certainly participate in one of the
> > polishing-fests.  Any takers?  Is there a room somewhere?  Bueller?
> 
> It's not clear to me what you are suggesting.  What is a
> "polishing-fest"?  What would happen there?  I suspect I would be
> interested if I knew what it was.

A session to assist users with post-install issues, customizations, and
demonstrate addons for increased productivity and/or performance.  For
instance, on my laptop I had to recompile my kernel w/ SpeedStep support
to enable CPUFreqd to work.  This more than doubled my on-battery time.
I used OSS but then had to switch to ALSA so that Skype would work (via
the alsa-oss support no less).  I access Oracle systems some for work,
well Oracle doesn't install well on Debian.  Yet assisting someone in
getting Oracle client tools installed could be the difference between
them giving up on Linux or moving forward.  Evolution integration w/ MS
Exchange, Cisco VPN, VMWare (with custom MAC address so that Mimic will
work when eth0 is down ;-).  X.org/XFree86 configs, boot-up logos,
Crossover Office, etc.  The list goes on.  All those issues that
frustrate people and keep them feeling behind.

-Jim P.