Hi Ryan, On 10 Feb 2011, at 03:08, Ryan Harter wrote:
> Hey all- > > I'm just joining the list and wanted to introduce myself and see who's out > there. I've been in the SILC server the last couple of days and haven't seen > anyone, so I just wanted to get a feel for who's active out there. I've been on much of the day (UK time zone), but I think FOSDEM over the weekend, followed by recovery from FOSDEM, may have > For a little about myself; My name is Ryan Harter. I'm a mobile developer > (mostly Android, lots of iPhone and as little blackberry as I can) for a > services company near Chicago, Il. I'm a friend and colleague of Greg > Casemento of GNUStep and, after talking with him and checking out the > projects, have taken an interest in Etoile. Ah, this might be your problem. I think most of the people on SILC are in Europe, although Eric and Nicolas are only a few time zones away from you. Chris has the same problem, but with a greater extreme being in Australia, so you might catch him briefly too. > I started developing for the Mac in 2004 and have lots of experience in Linux > as well. For a while I used Gentoo, but found I didn't want to spend as much > time maintaining my system so I switched to Ubuntu. > > I've been working on setting up a Gentoo dev system with GNUStep and Etoile, > and it's taken quite a bit of messing. I still don't have it set up yet, the > compile and install process seems to be quite a task. > > I chose Gentoo because I can start with a clean system without Gnome, or any > of that heavyweight stuff that comes with Ubuntu. Perhaps this is the wrong > approach? I think it's a good approach - it's one of the reasons why I picked FreeBSD. The downside is that I think you are the first person to try Étoilé on Gentoo, so you may have to work out some of the platform-specific issues. Let me know what problems you encounter, David -- Sent from my Difference Engine _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
