Linux Foundation President Used MacOS For Presentation at Open Source Summit (itsfoss.com)

Slashdot reader mschaffer writes:It appears that Jim Zemlin, President of the Linux Foundation, was using MacOS while declaring "2017 is officially the year of the Linux desktop!" at the Open Source Summit 2017. This was observed by several YouTube channels: Switched to Linux and The Lunduke Show. Finally it was reported by It's FOSS.

if, indeed, this is the year of desktop Linux, why oh why cannot people like Zemlin present a simple slide presentation -- let alone actually use a Linux distro for work.
A security developer at Google has now "spotted Jim Zemlin using Apple's macOS twice in last four years," according to the article, which complains the Foundation's admirable efforts on cloud/container technology has them neglecting Linux on the desktop.

Ironically, in March Zemlin told a cloud conference that organizations that "don't harvest the shared innovation" of open source "will fail."

Comments

Re:Because

[sombragris]

I'm no Apple user so I don't know about Keynote. But for ensuring compatibility, I make sure that my wife's PowerPoint presentations are all converted to PDF.

Anyway, in Linux you could use Impress, which is more than enough for most people in need of a graphical slide editor.

As for me, in my lectures I use Beamer in LaTeX, which is more than enough for my needs. And its output is, again, PDF.

I can project anything of these with Okular in presentation mode, easily. So I think Linux is more than capable in the area.

Re:Because

[rrohbeck]

I use LibreOffice. Never had a problem with PowerPoint compatibility in either direction.

Uh...

[Lunix Nutcase]

Ironically, in March Zemlin told a cloud conference that organizations that "don't harvest the shared innovation" of open source "will fail."

What's ironic? macOS does "harvest" open source code. Tons of it.

Re:Doesn't Help Much

[Harlequin80]

Because the conference is operated by a 3rd party company. They made sure everything is working and the provide pre-tested equipment and setup. You don't setup your own systems at a conference hall.

Re:Because

[emaname]

I use LibreOffice. Never had a problem with PowerPoint compatibility in either direction.

I used to say that.

Last April I was given a MS PPT to convert to LibreOffice. The bullets changed (and not in a good way), the font changed, all the indents changed, all the animations stopped working, and there were problems with some of the images. Essentially I had to recreate the entire presentation.

Then when I tried moving it back, everything fell apart again regardless in which file format I "saved as."

There was a time when I could create PPT presentations and move them between OSes. It doesn't appear to be that way anymore.

BTW, I had all the MS fonts installed on my Linux machine, the most recent kernel, and most recent LibreOffice. My distro uses rolling updates. Didn't matter.

LibreOffice still has work to do. I'll still promote it to people I know. But it still needs work.

Re:Because

[Ol Olsoc]

I use LibreOffice. Never had a problem with PowerPoint compatibility in either direction.

I used to say that.

Last April I was given a MS PPT to convert to LibreOffice. The bullets changed (and not in a good way), the font changed, all the indents changed, all the animations stopped working, and there were problems with some of the images.

I've had that happen from one Windows machine to another. Or Windows to MacOS. Or MacOS to Windows. Office is simply not compatible with anything - including itself. This is exactly why I insisted on the presentation running on a vetted laptop where the presentation was opened, saved, and all slides veerified if MO was used.

There is only one Office suite that works on all three, and is compatible between all three. And that is AO.