Hello all, I am new to JaxLUG and wanted to say hello and ask a couple of quick questions. First, I just wanted to verify that there would be a meeting in December (21st?). A couple of friends of mine would like to attend the next meeting as well. I was also wondering if anyone has any experience with Gentoo BSD. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/bsd/index.xml
We are currently all Linux users (Fedora, Slack and one Ubuntu guy) but we have been playing with Gentoo and LFS (in VM's). Really looking at FreeBSD now. Thinking about Gentoo BSD but would like to know what experiences, if any, people are having (or had) with it. I would also be interested to know if you guys would recommend FreeBSD or another (Open, Net, DragonFly etc...) BSD and why. Also kind of curious about people's favorite Linux distributions. I really like Fedora as a main due to nice repositories, YUM, SELinux, documentation etc. I love Arch but hate the lack of signed packages/repositories. Gentoo is awesome and the best learning experience I have had where Linux is concerned (first custom kernel). But curious about everyone else's favorites with the exception of http://www.minix3.org/ ... I have heard enough about it from one of my friends lately! Ha What's up Rick? Finally, when we install FreeBSD (or other BSD distro late December) we will be doing so on several different hardware platforms. We will be sure to take good notes and possibly add it to the JaxLUG wiki. Waiting on the FreeBSD bundle to arrive now (I like to contribute) plus we will be configuring a custom kernel (several actually) and various window managers/desktop environments etc. (considering playing with Compiz Fusion myself on FreeBSD since I have not had any experience with it before). Well, hope to meet everyone soon and looking forward to the responses. Perhaps Rickey Jackson will post a Minix 3 tutorial to tide us over until the FreeBSD install. Later. Very Respectfully, Billy Haines Associate of (ISC)2 toward CISSP, CCNA Security, CCNA R&S, ETA FOI [email protected]
