[ale] How was the NW meeting last night?

[Dow Hurst]

Matthew Macumber gave a very good talk explaining Gentoo.  The benefits 
over other distros were pointed out plus the caveats.  Certainly, anyone 
who wants to stay with a constantly updated system of the newest 
versions of software would be well advised to use Gentoo.  Those who 
haven't compiled a kernel or aren't familiar with compilation techniques 
should have help and have read the docs beforehand.  Next meeting will 
also be exciting as it is about how to setup and run LDAP with a live 
multi machine demo.

I really like good hardware support in the kernel and also like having 
the latest software.  That has been my main reason for using SuSE.  
Secondary was having lot's of sysadmin taken care of by SuSE and not 
me.  Gentoo's offering of so many possible kernels, plus the absolute 
latest software and patches continually updated weekly is really 
appealing to me.  I can probably enjoy working my way thru the sysadmin 
setup of the configuration files to tweak the system like I want it.  I 
think at heart I've wanted a Debian like system and Gentoo fits the 
bill.  I plan to build my system around Gentoo and post on the list how 
it goes.  SuSE 8.2 comes with OO 1.02 and to add OO 1.03.1 to it is a 
major pain unless you just ignore the OO 1.02 and install OO 1.03.1 in 
/usr/local.  I am tired of that!

I will soon trade up from a SGI O2 to a Dell Linux workstation running 
protein modelling programs at work.  I'll be going from a MIPs R5000 at 
200MHz to a Intel P4 at 2.08GHz.  My OpenGL speeds will increase by two 
orders of magnitude by moving from SGI CRM graphics to the Nvidia FX1000 
graphics.  So, that is about 7-9 years of graphics engine development 
time too, since the O2's graphics went on the market about 1996.

Just rambling but I did enjoy the meeting.  It was the shortest meeting 
we've had ending about 9:15pm and everyone was gone by 10pm!  I actually 
got home before midnight!
Dow


William Bagwell wrote:

>On Friday 20 June 2003 04:59 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
>  
>
>>I was looking for some feedback on the ALE NW meeting last night. 
>>How did it go?  How many in attendance?
>>    
>>
>
>Interesting, though much of it was over my head...  Counted 16 
>including the speaker.  BTW someone was asking about Gentoo discussion 
>forums, alt.os.linux.gentoo seems to be a nice little group.  Not full 
>of trolls and idiots like most of the groups for larger distros.
>  
>

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