At 09:48pm on Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Elisabeth Elisabeth wrote:
From: Kirsten Naylor wildduck@wildduck.org.uk
I can just about manage apt-get update and apt-get upgrade but need my hand held quite a bit. So I want to know how to manage my debian installation so that if quinophex vanished I would not be stuck. Also knowing how to build kernels would be fun.
AOL (except the bit about quinophex).
Plus I'd be interested in audio-editing demos. I might be able to persuade two of the local musogeeks to demo what they've set up.
Eli(sabeth)
Has everybody spotted http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?DemosOfferedDemosWanted on the web site?
I've taken the liberty of adding a kit available section so we can see what people are willing to lend for the purposes of demos. Perhaps the rest of you can do the same. If this would be better on a separate page then feel free to move it (after all it is a wiki web :o) ).
I'm happy to do a talk but I'm not sure what I can usefully contribute. My main background is in designing and using relational databases and ditto for web pages so I'm happy to talk about those if anyone's interested.
I keep pondering on the idea of a Debian install workshop that would last a morning or afternoon or even a whole day but I think several of us would need to get together and set that up. Something along the lines of install a base Debian system, upgrade the packages, configure a few things like mail, cron, fstab, etc and perhaps even do a simple kernel build using kpkg (need to decide what is a realistic scope) Would that be of interest? Anyone be willing to help set it up? (sort of mini-install fest).
Current "projects" I'm working on are setting up Apache web server, the subversion source repository package (CVS replacement), and setting up a dial up system to use fetchmail, masqmail, procmail & bogofilter.
These are all WIP but I'd be happy to talk about my experiences sometime in the future if it would be of interest to anyone.
Keith --------- The treasures of the house do not come in through the gate. - Zen saying