On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 21:32 -0500, Billy Haines wrote: > Hello all, > First I would like to thank William Thomson Jr. for his fast and > informative response.
Np > I am definitely hoping to see a December meeting. I will be bringing > two other new Linux geeks with me but we need a heads up on the date > in order to schedule time off from work. Third Tuesday of the month, which is the 21st. Will update wiki, once a topic has been decided. > Definitely appreciate the diskless Gentoo install write up Will. Nice. If you mean the link, not my writeup, but your welcome. > I think the idea for a meet and greet with desktop introductions is a > good idea. That's a quick way to get to know everyone and often times > locate cool new toys that you may have been unaware of (that is how I > initially discovered Conky) http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Just something fun and light for the month, given the holidays and such. > It would probably be a good idea to allow people to show off ANY OS > that they may be running. That may be pushing it, if you take into consideration the various Linux desktops, window managers, how people customize and tweak out their desktops, distro defaults, etc. > I am ordering the BSD kit from freebsdmall.com (and maybe a > t-shirt)... That is what I meant in my previous post by liking to > contribute (if I like something). Oh thats great and a good way to support/fund well organized FOSS projects. If only more were as well organized from a NPO point of view as FreeBSD. > I read the entire FreeBSD handbook and absolutely fell in love with > it... (another thing that I also loved about Gentoo and Arch Linux)!!! Documentation can make or break things at times. > Also, regarding projects, I was thinking that it might be cool to > create a *Nix (probably Gentoo, Slack or Deb) system on a slimline > wireless PC to act as a media center PC. Not talking like MythTV which > seems to be geared more toward a home media server/DVR but as a device > similar to the Google TV devices they are selling at BestBuy etc. Problem with most things like that going the embeded system type of route, even simulated You can end up spending more on the hardware, much less time dealing with the software just to make it all happen. Kinda the same with things like a making a wifi router out of a Linux box. But where there is a will there is a way, and others might have some suggestions. -- 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]
