On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Paul Cutler wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 02:14 -0500, Yaron wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Brian Dolan-Goecke wrote: >> >>> This month at the Penguins Unbound Meeting Stephen Fluin will talk >>> about Browsers on Linux >> >> So basically it's going to be something like "There are browsers other >> than Firefox. No really, there are, honestly. Some of them are even >> completely functional! What's that? Are they /better/ than Firefox? >> Well, "better" is subjective. I mean they have other features. No, not >> as many. No, you can't use Adblock Plus and Noscript on the other >> browsers. Look, please, there are some really good reasons to use these >> other browsers! What? How many reasons? Lots! Ok, one! But it's a very >> goo... what? *sigh* yes it IS "curiosity". Fine I'll just talk about >> Firefox for the entire time." > > And how was this email helpful? At least Brian has taken the initiative > to do something positive and have monthly meetings with topics on Linux > for new to experienced Linux users. > > Maybe before you criticize you should spend a year or two organizing > monthly meetings and trying to get speakers / topics. There's that, and also, maybe he's wrong about the content of the presentation. What about memory usage? What's up with Chrome for Linux? Maybe he'll say a few things about Lynx and wget and curl. Mike