On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 19:53 -0500, Billy Haines wrote: > Hello all, > I am new to JaxLUG
Welcome! > 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?). Will comment in another thread specifically with that topic, I have a few ideas there. But yes there will be some sort of meeting/gathering. > 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 Not familiar with it directly, but was aware of it and around it when I was a Gentoo developer. Had to add keywords for that arch/platform for the packages I maintained. It was a pita for a while because it was neglected, but I believe has been well maintained since. As I have seen other keywords/archs along those same lines creep into the mix, and it continues on. > 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. FreeBSD has a great foundation behind them. They always had impressive showings at Linux World Expos when there was such a thing. I considered switching to FreeBSD when I departed from Gentoo. Though remain running Gentoo, and slowing allowing myself to be sucked back into contributing. Tried rejoining as a developer earlier in the year, but thats another long story as they all are :) > Also kind of curious about people's favorite Linux distributions. Oh be careful, thats dangerous territory :) > I love Arch but hate the lack of signed packages/repositories. Most anytime I am working with newer release of FOSS software on Gentoo and I am googling for solutions. If I don't end up on something Gentoo related, its usual some Arch documentation. I have been impressed with Arch for that reason, but no experience with that distro. Other than good in depth documentation on a variety of new stuff. But still a binary distro, and not my cup of tea. > Gentoo is awesome and the best learning experience I have had where > Linux is concerned (first custom kernel). I love Gentoo, but I do not recommend Gentoo. If you want to learn, be self reliant, ask questions and seek help only after face planting for some time and putting in the work yourself. Then its a great distro and you may learn more than you want, but thats not always a bad thing. Short of doing LFS, which can be a bit hard core. You can always stage 1 boostrap Gentoo for a quasi LFS experience with half the pain. Still will take a day or two even for a base system on a fast machine, short of big iron. > 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! Well Linux kernel initial was derived from Minix. No experience there myself. > > 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. Welcome to do a presentation on it just the same, but either way happy with any useful contributions to the wiki. > Waiting on the FreeBSD bundle to arrive now Download? Snails are good to eat, not wait on :) > (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). Compiz is fun, has some useful features, zoom, some like the cube which is just a fancy multi-desktop thats always been around. I myself tend to just stick for a composited WM, Metacity with composites enabled. Doesn't have very many fancy features, but is very stable. I always had issues with compiz, and end of the day its eye candy. Doesn't really help with performance, and can get in the way as a result. > 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. Or a presentation just the same :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
