robert’s rant room

The TU Berlin students of the Freitagsrunde, which I am a part of, organized a series of talks last summer called the Distro Bash. In three sessions Linux and Unix enthusiasts met and discussed merits and flaws of their favorite (or most hated) distribution. Most of the speakers were active users or developers, who studied or worked at the TU Berlin. The talks were rather informal, usually accompanied by live demonstrations. We had about 30 to 40 people attending each session and I learned a lot about how other systems work.

Apparantly, I was not the only to feel this way. Tobias Klauser of the Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in Switzerland who heard of (or attended?) our series started an own session of Distro Bashs in the Linux User Group of his university. Too bad I can’t be there, but it’s great to see how our idea travels and evolves. Read more about it in press reports at Pro-Linux and symlink.