On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:33, you wrote: > I have a Knoppix 3.2 CD here... and it has distcc 1.1 and gcc 3.2.3 (as > someone else posted I think?). I have a suspicion that maybe this would be > close enough? I expect so.
> Is it at least worth a try before messing around with livecd-ng? Definitely! > IMHO Knoppix hardware detection is second to none (just 10 > minutes ago it fixed a faulty CD-ROM drive I was giving up hope of ever > working properly - stuck in a Knoppix CD and it just goes, lol). If we use > Knoppix, I think there is more chance it will work on all the different > (and weird) machines people bring... comments? I too think that that is true. I don't know why Gentoo Central is a bit behind with gcc stuck at 3.2.2. > Secondly, the matter of the charge. $20 seems a bit much to a poor student > like me, I realize that. Quoting my last post: "( $10 for card carrying members of the under-class )" It means - somewhat jocularly - "anybody who can't afford the $20". > but if you set the charge at less for people who just bring a > machine to help with compiling, then I will do that, and just not bring the > machine I was thinking of installing on. I'm not too bothered whether I get > gentoo or not, after all I'm sure I'd have no trouble installing it myself > at home. For me, the real value of this is the social aspect (if you call > sitting in a room with a bunch of other geeks social, heh ;-) , and to see > something cool (distcc. an installfest where all the machines help each > other, woohoo). What I'm saying is that even if you guys were setting up a > mosix cluster and intending to use it to calculate PI to a billion decimal > places, I'd still come ;-) The social aspects of the CLUG list are important to me too. > So this then raises the question, should we in fact charge any less for > people who aren't getting installs? If others are like me (which of course > they aren't, necessarily) and get the same utility from both (installing or > not installing), then perhaps we should have one fee for everyone? Quite possibly, I'm just concerned about the continuing viability of the OSTC, that's all. > Thirdly, I once heard the OSTC described as being little larger than a > corridor - is the correct? More or less. > (I've never been there). If so then it may not be ideal... Indeed it's far from ideal, but it's not too bad either. There are 4 smallish rooms as well as the central "corridor" part. The advantage of the OSTC is that we have the use of a reasonably fast internet connection, 7 Pentium IIs as a compilation cluster, a working firewalled network, and a very convenient pub and a coffee shop literally just down the stairs. > I would even offer to have it at my place (ie. therefore no charges for > anyone) - we have gaming LANs here sometimes, and I know for a fact that if > stretched we can fit 9 people + machines in the house, and another 9 in the > garage (yes, we have done it before ;-) ... with a long bit of cat5 between > the two. But that's also less than ideal ;-) The point of having the I'fest at the OSTC is to avoid causing any domestic inconvenience to anyone. > I don't want to undermine the effort to support the OSTC, and indeed if it > is a suitable venue, then I think we should hold it there. However, my > personal feeling is that the standard $10 per person fee would be about > right. You should pay that much then. > Of course ultimately it's up to David, he has the right to set the > fee at whatever he likes. So I would like to hear some comments from him on > the matter. I don't think he will see the list until Monday. > On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:13, Nick Rout wrote: > > I am fiddling with the gentoo package livecd-ng which is supposed to be > > able to create a custom boot cd with arbitrary packages included (ie > > distcc). I can see now why it is in the "unstable" branch of gentoo - it > > doesn't work"out of the box", but I seem to be getting somewhere with > > some help from forums.gentoo.org. Will report back later. > > > > If this works we should be able to boot all the distcc server machines > > off identical cd's and there should be no problems with gcc or library > > version differences. > > > > N -- -- C. S.
