Heres the small coverage in the gentoo weekly newsletter: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050509-newsletter.xml
Our LUGs site is http://www.plug.ca. The site is still a work in progress dispite being up for a few years. I am planning to move towards the end of August or early September if I play my cards right. Cya soon(hopefully) Cory Oldford ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Bourassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2005 6:10 pm Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Hello from Winnipeg Manitoba > Cory Oldford wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My name is Cory Oldford. I am the present vice president of the > Prairie Linux User Group(plug.ca) based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I > am considering moving to the Calgary area in the fall if I can > line up some employment. I've already lined up a place to stay and > thought I would also line up some contacts in the local Linux > scene. > > > > This year has been a great year for our small LUG. I spearheaded > the conversion of a local elementary school lab over to GNU/Linux > using a Gentoo based LTSP server with openMosix patched client and > server kernels. The server is only an AMD Athlon 1600 with 1.2GB > PC2700 and a 40 GB harddrive but handles 30 clients great. We used > IceWM and a hacked ROX-Filer for the desktop environment. Firefox, > OpenOffice and the Gimp make up the core apps and are currently > precached in RAM with related libraries for utmost > responsiveness(necessary due to the slow 40GB 5400rpm drive). > There are some games including TuxMath, TuxType and a handful of > other educational freebies. My favorite client on the network is a > P75 w/16MB RAM as it truly shows why this approach is one to > consider. It was an honour to have this project covered by the > Gentoo Weekly Newsletter and I hope other educational facilities > will follow the lead of this small private school. > > > > In August our organization is also hosting a festival call > OpenCity. We brought the ideals/thoughts started with the > opensource software movement to the attention of the Winnipeg arts > community in an effort to build a more collaberative approach to > the arts and culture in general. We have already recieved over > $12000 in funding from various doners and hope to make the second > annual festival that much more successful than the first. > > > > In the spirit of opensource software I thought I would also > include a small script I have been using to summarize the output > of lastcomm(GNU process accounting). > > > > Here is the script in action: > > > > ltsp root # lastcomm hc17 | gawk -f summarize.awk > > Process: Count: CPU: Last: > > Xsession 5 0.01 Wed Jun 1 08:48 > > cut 2 0.00 Wed Jun 1 08:48 > > fusermount 3 0.00 Wed Jun 1 08:48 > > > snipped a bunch ... > > > > print " -------- --------"; > > printf(" %24d %8.2f\n",NR,total_cpu_time); > > } > > > > I know the script isn't much to look at but I thought perhaps > someone would find a use for it and perhaps contribute something > to it. Anyhoo before I type my fingers off and bore your members I > should say a goodbye. With any luck I'll be living in your area > soon. > > > > Thanks, > > Cory Oldford > > Welcome to CLUG, Cory! Your endeavors sound most impressive. > What's > the chance of posting a link to the Gentoo article you speak of > for our > members to read? Some links to PLUG wouldn't hurt either. > > Winnipeg... my old stomping grounds. I went to MIT way back when it > was MIT, altogether too many years ago. > > We're all looking forward to your joining our group when you get here. > Any time frame established yet? > > Good luck in your employment search. > > sincerely, > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > Dave Bourassa at > http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who > understand binary and those who don't." > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
