On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 10:26 -0400, ralphefigueroa wrote: > If possible, what could we do to make an install fest or Lan Party > happen?
Having an install fest is really up to the group, not any one individual. I will surely do my part and help make any arrangements. But without interest and some support from the group, won't happen. Also I doubt the LUG will ever do a LAN party, just an install fest. LAN parties tend to center around games. Not sure there is any one Linux game the group is into or playing. Much less, sad to say, I haven't any free time for games or LAN parties. Though my biggest learning lesson from LAN parties in the past. Before you start debugging the OSI stack, and other forms of technical trouble shooting. Make sure all cables are plugged in... :) > Also, currently in my Linux class, we are learning about Bash > and perl scripting. I would like to hear maybe a topic dealing with > perl and scripting. Perl is kinda legacy these days IMHO. Lots of other alternatives that fit the scripting bill better. Most widely used these days is Python. I would rather learn about Python than most others. Having spent some time in the past learning PERL. It was one of the first languages I went after on Linux. Though ditched it long ago for Java. Bash scripting is a MUST. Every Linux system works because of a ton of bash scripting. Much less any shell is usually a bash shell. Though can be others, and surely is the case on other Unixes that are not Linux. IMHO if you know like Bash, C, and Java, your golden. Anything else tossed in can't hurt and will help further. C++ is not bad, but allot of core stuff is in C. Probably best to learn C before C++, the other way is kinda hard. Though I am not an expert in both. Linux and Java are an ideal combo and have been for some time. That's not just my opinion. Google combined the two to form Android. However most anytime you see Java running on Linux. That JVM was coded in C or C ++. Perl is surely not going anywhere. Its been very useful for a long time, and will continue to be so in the future. Though many are starting to get away from it. For example Nagios, though it still heavily uses perl. The web interface seems to be in Python these days, it used to be in perl. The one thing I hate about ASSP is that its written in perl. Which they are now trying to make a multi-thread version of ASSP. Now that perl has threading abilities, which it got some time back. Though not sure many if any perl apps utilize that. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
