Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread J-F Bilodeau
I'm curious why I consider Ubuntu 11.04 a 'piece of junk'. Is it the new Gnome UI? I'm not trying to defend the distro, but I use Kubuntu, and haven't tried the new UI yet. Le 2011-05-10 à 09:18, Shawn H Corey a écrit : I've upgraded by Ubuntu to 11.04. What a piece of junk. If this is the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any interest in a local kernel programming special interest group?

2011-05-10 Thread Jean Richard
and just to be clear, i'm not trying to compete with OCLUG. this group would be far more informal and have a much stricter focus. so ... who's in? if enough people are interested, i'll check out what it would take to meet at the code factory. I'm one of those people out in Kanata, but I

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 10 May 2011, Shawn H Corey wrote: I've upgraded by Ubuntu to 11.04. What a piece of junk. If this is the best Canonical can do, it's time to switch distro. I'm looking for one that can do some development work. My favourite language is Perl, so it's got to be able to do that.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread Bryan Larsen
To throw a counter opinion in there, I love 11.04.I've had no problems with it, a couple of previous niggles vis-a-vis suspend have been worked out, and I love Unity, at least on a laptop. I'm not sure it will work as well on the 30 on my desktop, but it's worth switching to Ubuntu just to

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-05-10 10:43 AM, Tim Inkpen wrote: Unless I'm missing something, Mint does not come with the version of Perl that you are looking for, at least according to this matrix: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint No distro I know of comes with Perl 5.12. I'll have to load it

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any interest in a local kernel programming special interest group?

2011-05-10 Thread Derek Murphy (Simba 64 bit)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 May 2011, Robert P. J. Day wrote: is there any interest in a small group focused on linux kernel programming that would want to meet on a regular or occasional basis in downtown ottawa and hash out selected areas of interest in kernel

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread Derek Murphy (Simba 64 bit)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 May 2011, Shawn H Corey wrote: Most distros come with Perl 5.10 (some still have 5.8) but I need to run 5.12 (stable) and 5.14 (beta). Any recommendations? I simply MUST point out that the latest stable Slackware release

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread porpen
Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:48:41AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: On 11-05-10 10:43 AM, Tim Inkpen wrote: Unless I'm missing something, Mint does not come with the version of Perl that you are looking for, at least according to this matrix:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Distro Recommendations

2011-05-10 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 11-05-10 11:06 AM, porpen wrote: But I agree, building and installing from source is probably your best bet. Heck install it to /usr/local or /opt or wherever and add symlinks to your ~/bin. This will keep the distro happy with it's stable version of perl. The best way to install a

[OCLUG-Tech] [Fwd: Re: Distro Recommendations]

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Strosberg
Shawn H Corey wrote: I've upgraded by Ubuntu to 11.04. What a piece of junk. If this is the best Canonical can do, it's time to switch distro. I'm looking for one that can do some development work. My favourite language is Perl, so it's got to be able to do that. Now, you're thinking

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any interest in a local kernel programmingspecialinterest group?

2011-05-10 Thread allan . fields
I think this is a good idea. I will suggest that you encourage the advanced kernel programmers to present on specific subsystems. You may find there is a hotbed of embedded programmers here in Ottawa with knowledge of applying Linux kernel to network and mobile applications where it really