Hi,
Just received 2 oreilly posters and "oreilly direct" catalogues for ALUG. I'll bring them along to the next ALUG (or pass them on so they get there).
Andrew.
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:31:48AM +0100, Andrew Savory said:
Just received 2 oreilly posters and "oreilly direct" catalogues for ALUG. I'll bring them along to the next ALUG (or pass them on so they get there).
Oh gimmie!!! You can get free AMD posters, stickers etc anyway.
Andrew Savory lists@andrewsavory.com wrote:
Just received 2 oreilly posters and "oreilly direct" catalogues for ALUG. I'll bring them along to the next ALUG (or pass them on so they get there).
I believe this is the start of the Install Day material. With regards to install day: who's done what for publicity so far? Who can do what between now and Monday? Please add details to the page at http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LinuxInstallDay2002
We need to get this message "out there" pronto!
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi,
Just received 2 oreilly posters and "oreilly direct" catalogues for ALUG. I'll bring them along to the next ALUG (or pass them on so they get there).
You have?
Hmmm, must get back onto them and see where the stuff I requested got to.
D
Wow. Continuing the theme of finding exciting packages on my doorstep, another big bundle of goodies from those lovely people at O'Reilly.
- pack of 6 O'Reilly coasters
- paperback "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric S Raymond
- hardback "Free as in Freedom - Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software" by Sam Williams
- O'Reilly notebook
- paperback "A field guide to O'Reilly animals", an introduction to computer technologies and O'Reilly books
- a bundle of O'Reilly postcards featuring various animal engravings
- paperback "The Root of All Evil", User Friendly the comic strip.
- two t-shirts, one bright green and one white.
As with the other stuff, I'll make sure it gets to the next ALUG. Do we want to give away some of this stuff in Install Day competitions, or what?
Andrew.
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 03:17:33PM +0100, Andrew Savory said:
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As with the other stuff, I'll make sure it gets to the next ALUG. Do we want to give away some of this stuff in Install Day competitions, or what?
Raffles tickets?
Wow. Continuing the theme of finding exciting packages on my doorstep, a visit from Parcel Farce today with another exciting package addressed to ALUG :-)
I now have two copies of SUSE Professional 7.3 and one copy of SUSE Professional 8. Thanks SUSE!
Andrew.
Andrew Savory lists@andrewsavory.com wrote:
I now have two copies of SUSE Professional 7.3 and one copy of SUSE Professional 8. Thanks SUSE!
I will be conducting a ceremonial burning at the stake of the non-free distributions during the install day. Please bring your own kindling.
More seriously, I hear a rumour that SuSE are considering releasing YaST under a full-freedom licence.
MJ Ray wrote:
Andrew Savory lists@andrewsavory.com wrote:
I now have two copies of SUSE Professional 7.3 and one copy of SUSE Professional 8. Thanks SUSE!
I will be conducting a ceremonial burning at the stake of the non-free distributions during the install day. Please bring your own kindling.
More seriously, I hear a rumour that SuSE are considering releasing YaST under a full-freedom licence.
SuSE need to do something to repair the damage caused by the changes they've made to the distro in V8.0. There are a lot of people pissed off with the way SuSE have turned their back on servers (and the CLI), and are heading, Microsoft-like, into newbie GUI land on the desktop.
I've been using SuSE since 5.3, but all my servers are going Gentoo now. I'm glad they pushed me into it really, because the bloat in SuSE (and RH, Mandrake et al) is getting ludicrous. Gentoo takes some getting used to, but I like it so far.
Cheers, Laurie.
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:03:58AM +0100, Laurie Brown said:
I've been using SuSE since 5.3, but all my servers are going Gentoo now. I'm glad they pushed me into it really, because the bloat in SuSE (and RH, Mandrake et al) is getting ludicrous. Gentoo takes some getting used to, but I like it so far.
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
Craig craigo@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
Remind me: is gentoo the "automate build all from sources" one? If so, what does it offer over Debian, pentium-builder (or whatever) and "apt-get build"?
MJ Ray wrote:
Craig craigo@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
Remind me: is gentoo the "automate build all from sources" one? If so, what does it offer over Debian, pentium-builder (or whatever) and "apt-get build"?
Everything on Gentoo is indeed built from source. I have no idea how it differs from Debian, or even if it does, nor do I know if it's better, the same or worse. It's just a distro I tried a) because I was/am pissed off with SuSE, because RH etc. is crap, and b) it's new. I particularly like it because the base build is tiny, optimised and fast, and I only need to install exactly what I want. Much like Debian, I suppose.
Now I've invested considerable time in getting my head around it, I'm not keen to change!
Cheers, Laurie.
On Thu, 16 May 2002 09:45:34 GMT MJ Ray wrote:
Craig craigo@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
Remind me: is gentoo the "automate build all from sources" one? If so, what does it offer over Debian, pentium-builder (or whatever) and "apt-get build"?
I thought that was Sourceror (my spelling is buggered today). Haven't tried it myself (neither Gentoo, but looks interesting).
Regards,
Martyn
Martyn Drake wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2002 09:45:34 GMT MJ Ray wrote:
Craig craigo@wizball.co.uk wrote:
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
Remind me: is gentoo the "automate build all from sources" one? If so, what does it offer over Debian, pentium-builder (or whatever) and "apt-get build"?
I thought that was Sourceror (my spelling is buggered today). Haven't tried it myself (neither Gentoo, but looks interesting).
Sorceror is another one. One's perl-based, the other python.
Cheers, Laurie.
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Craig wrote:
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
It's you! (I'm not in any rush to leave Debian, tyvm ;-)
Andrew.
You know the drill.
This time it was a huuuuuge SuSE window sticker, two SuSE posters, leaflets, stickers, and badges.
Thanks SuSE, you rock!
Andrew.
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