[Lust] St albans and Luton LUG

Fri Mar 19 21:52:25 GMT 2004

Hi guys,

I went to the last Linux Expo at Olympia and it was disappointing.  It's getting really business-oriented now, whereas I when I first went, a few years ago, there was much more "community" about it.

The first time I went, Bob Young was still in charge of RedHat and he was there giving brilliant (and hilarious) talks about why Open Source is the way forward, the Debian people were there handing out free CDs, there were more of the "cottage industry" type companies, small start-ups with (usually just) one good idea, booksellers, and more "characters" (beardy blokes :-) there.

Now the big companies have got a foot in the door, there are admittedly lots more babes, but by lunchtime everything had been explored, and there was nothing left to see.  I guess the small guys have been priced out.

So, go to Linux Expo, but don't expect too much, is what I'm trying to say.

Nice to have have a new member to the LUG, welcome Chris.  It's also quite nice to see some LUG-related e-mails!

Regards,

Rob

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 01:38:08 +0000
Max <max.kiva at lineone.net> wrote:

> Would not LinuxUserExpo be an obvious place for a meet-up ?
> 
> Chris Thompson wrote:
> 
> >Sorry Ian,
> >
> >not come across Netwinder before. What chipset is it? Gentoo do quite a
> >wide range. Dunb questions as I am sure you have already checked it out.
> >
> >I have been looking at gentoox which puts gentoo on your Xbox. May be a
> >laugh, but a pain in the bum to use the keypads to navigate the shell!
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hi Guys,
> >>
> >>Glad to see there is some life in LUST, if not the other way around.
> >>
> >>Happy also to see there is a local gentoo expert as I converted to this
> >>last
> >>year and like it a lot. Have it happily whirring away on my main desktop
> >>machine, but would dearly like to get it up and running on a spare
> >>Netwinder
> >>I have. I see someone has done a boot-loader, but I can't seem to find
> >>anything else.
> >>
> >>Anyone care to share some thoughts?
> >>
> >>Kind regds
> >>
> >>Robert
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Ian MacDougall [mailto:ian.macdougall at pinnacle.co.uk]
> >>Sent: 16 March 2004 08:42
> >>To: Chris Thompson
> >>Cc: lust at mailman.lug.org.uk
> >>Subject: Re: [Lust] St albans and Luton LUG
> >>
> >>
> >>On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 21:37, Chris Thompson wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi Ian,
> >>>
> >>>sounds like you have the pedigree to breeze the exam. It may be worth a
> >>>quick flip through the pdf on the LPI site as a friend of mine who has
> >>>been using Linux since almost the very beginning read my book and
> >>>realised that he had forgotten some of the basic stuff through lack of
> >>>use
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Cool thanks for that.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>So you are a SUN head are you? Have just finished getting gentoo to run
> >>>on a Netra T1. I have gone grey overnight and sworn off all SUN kit for
> >>>a while till my nerves recover
> >>>:-)
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Nah not a Sun head, but one of my jobs was mostly programming and the
> >>only *nix servers I had to play with were Suns. Not touched one now for
> >>about 4 years. It was nice to get gcc and samba working on one of them.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Please let me know if you guys are thinking of arranging a meet, but
> >>>realise that if everyone is busy it can be a bit of a pain.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I'm sure it will be announced on the list.
> >>
> >>regards,
> >>
> >>--
> >>Ian
> >>
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