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Subject: Re: More Install Fest Details [was: Re: meeting notes ]
From: Dejan Nikic <dejann@u.washington.edu>
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Date: 15 Feb 2003 11:08:43 -0800
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well on the last meeting i said that we could probably make bunch of
pre-compiled ebuilds for different systems, but in order to do that we
have to decide on what packages will be installed and also what to do
after the install. Somebody has to walk people trough the whole portage
system and stuff.

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 11:02, Kolbe Kegel wrote:
> Yeah I think that the problem with offering Gentoo support is that it 
> takes soooo long to get stuff running in gentoo, just because you have 
> to compile every damn package from scratch. That's actually pretty 
> gratifying when you have nothing better to do than sit around your house 
> or even leave while it's doing a bunch of packages. But trying to 
> organize that type of install and keep people interested at some kind of 
> event is going to be difficult at best. Any thoughts?
> 
> Richard Lotz wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Saturday, Feb 15, 2003, at 08:38 US/Pacific, A. Mathes wrote:
> >
> >> definitely Gentoo.  We have plenty of support.
> >
> >
> > If we plan on offering Gentoo support we need someone to stepup and 
> > claim responsibility to organize the Gentoo installs.  With FreeBSD 
> > Zach doesn't expect to be helping new commers to Unix.  More likely it 
> > will be Linux users who want to try a *BSD system and need help 
> > getting it installed.  Answer questions like "What happend to my 
> > eth0?", etc.
> >
> >> Also ... who from SACG told you LUG could go on the lab page?  Just
> >> curious ...
> >
> >
> > Alex Gregorio is going to be putting up a news bit for the MUG ( 
> > http://students.washington.edu/mug/ ), so to be impartial he is 
> > offering it to the Linux and MS users groups.  I didn't even realize 
> > there _was_ an MS users group.
> >
> > -richard
> >
> > -- 
> > Richard Lotz
> > GPG Key:     http://students.washington.edu/rlotz/key.txt
> > Fingerprint: 6BD7 C584 7DDC 43FD F0D4  87AB 5A8F 89D5 B3CC 9517
> >
> >
> 

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