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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:23:41AM -0500, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote: |
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> hello all. i will be giving 2 presentations on gentoo at MIT |
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> (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, MA, USA, on 1/8 |
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> and 1/13. they are open to anyone who rsvps. |
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A couple of (silly) remarks if you don't mind :) It's based on the |
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presentation material available on your dev-space which you say is a bit |
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outdated, so apologies if you have already fixed those issues... |
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Page 2 of your presentation sais that Gentoo was started 5 years ago by |
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Daniel. Enoch was started in 1999 (which is now 5 years ago), but the name |
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Gentoo was first introduced in 2000. |
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Page 2 of your presentation sais that Gentoo (officially?) supports x86, ppc, |
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sparc and alpha. I believe hppa and mips are also officially supported and |
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that amd64 is in the running. |
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Page 5 of your presentation sais that the scripts download, compile and |
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install. Perhaps you might mention "patch" too which is a very important |
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aspect of the ebuilds. |
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Page 5 of your presentation gives some outdated versions: |
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glibc 2.2.5 -> 2.3.2 |
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gcc 3.2.1 -> 3.2.3 |
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xfree 4.2 -> 4.3 |
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KDE 3.0.5 -> 3.1.4 |
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Gnome 2.0.2 -> 2.4 |
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Page 5 of your presentation gives some bootloaders (grub, lilo, yaboot, |
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bootx). Perhaps you can mention the others too (aboot, milo, silo, palo)? |
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Page 5 of your presentation gives some kernel examples. Do add 2.6 :) |
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Page 5 of your presentation mentions prelinking and ccache. Perhaps distcc is |
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worth mentioning too? |
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Page 9 of your presentation sais that a net connection is required for |
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installation, which isn't the case anymore (it was with the rc's). |
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Page 9 of your presentation sais that it is "secure by default". I don't know |
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if you should add it here, but there is a feature called sfperms which will |
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improve privileges on setuid/setgid files. |
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Page 15 of your presentation enters some "coming soon". The following items |
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have already been integrated: |
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- distcc |
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- cpan/portage integration |
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- cd-based installers |
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The following projects have stopped (correct me if I'm wrong plz): |
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- s/390 port |
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- embedded devices (pebenito?) |
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- cvsup instead of rsync |
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Perhaps new items can be: |
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- portage-ng |
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- official AMD 64 support |
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- udev support |
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- ... |
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Page 16 of your presentation talks about a 16-230 MiB iso images. Our basic |
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has grown out of these proportions. The new size range is about 95 - 600 MiB. |
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Page 16 of your presentations talks about the UT 2003 LiveCD, but that's |
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quite old now. A UT 2004 LiveCD will probably be available (see Daniel's |
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latest mails). |
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Page 16 of your presentation talks about LiveCDs for x86 and PPC. LiveCDs are |
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however available for: alpha, amd64, hppa (albeit outdated), ppc, sparc and |
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x86. |
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Page 17 of your presentation talks about the documentation. Please mention |
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the handbook as primary source for: |
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- installation instructions |
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- portage (user-level) |
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- init scripts |
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- environment variables |
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- USE flags |
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Page 18 of your presentation talks about the Gentoo Community. It might be |
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interesting giving some numbers. From what I gather: |
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- The forums have > 1000 posts per day and over 100 000 topics |
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- There are more than 15 active mailinglists and +40 mailinglist in |
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general |
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- #gentoo is freenode's biggest channel (700+ users) |
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- We have +50 channels |
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- bugtracking has more than 20 000 hits per day |
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- our social contract ensures the community that |
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* we will never depend on non-free software |
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* we will remain freely available |
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* we move bugreports upstream ourselves if needed |
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* we have an open bug process/development |
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One thing I miss in the presentation is a small talk about the organisation: |
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the projects and their goals. Also mentioning the GWN would be nice (although |
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you probably do that during the speach). |
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And finally, the Gentoo PR project is currently working on a presentation |
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template all Gentoo developers can use. I will also write up a document on |
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how presentations could be created and we will try to bundle all |
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presentations made for/by Gentoo so that updates in the distribution quickly |
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propagate to the presentations themselves. |
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That's it for now. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good. |
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(oo) Sven Vermeulen |
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