Holy Wars 2014

Linux Users Group

Structure

• Speakers volunteer to fight for one side of an argument.
• Speakers define the general topic (e.g., text editors, operating systems, window managers).

• Each speaker presents their argument for why their side is totally the best.

  • These can be demos, spoken, research.
  • These should be about 4 minutes max (soft).

• Each speaker presents closing arguments.

  • These shouldn't be longer than 1 minute (hard).

• A winner is chosen (probably... maybe).

The audience can ask questions at any time, speakers have the choice of not answering questions, but are encouraged to answer.

Linux V Windows V Mac

Metric V Imperial

Floating WM V Tiling WM

• XFCE
• i3
• Cinammon
• awesome
• Unity
• herbstluftwm
• KDE
• xmonad
• Whatever Windows uses

To name a few

vim V emacs

$SHELL V $OTHER_SHELL

• Bash
• Shell
• Zsh
• Fish
• Csh
• Ksh

To name a few

Security V Usability

(Linux) Distros V (Linux) Distros

• Ubuntu
• Mint
• Arch
• OpenSuSE
• CentOS
• Gentoo
• Slackware

To name a few

Progamming Languages V Programming Languages

• C
• Python
• Ruby
• Haskell
• Javascript
• Java

To name a few

Closed V Opensource

Andriod V Ios

Version Control Software V Version Control Software

• Git
• Mercurial
• Subversion

Web Browsers V Web Browsers

• Firefox
• Chrome & Chromium
• Safari
• Opera
• Internet Explorer

To name most of them

Free V Opensource

Licences V Licences

• MIT
• BSD
• Apache License
• GNU
• Mozilla

To name a few