[gentoo-dev] gentoo presentations in boston, ma, usa

[gentoo-dev] gentoo presentations in boston, ma, usa

[Rajiv Aaron Manglani]

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hello all. i will be giving 2 presentations on gentoo at MIT 
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, MA, USA, on 1/8 
and 1/13. they are open to anyone who rsvps.

details below.

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Introduction to Gentoo Linux

Presented by Rajiv Manglani, Gentoo Linux Security Team member and PPC
Developer.

Sponsored by MIT SIPB.

Thursday, January 8, 2004, 6-8:00pm, MIT Building 1, room 190.

We will have an overview presentation and a demo of a running Gentoo
system.

If you plan on attending please RSVP to <sipb-iap-gentoo@mit.edu>.

For more information see <http://www.mit.edu/iap/gentoo/>.

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Advanced Gentoo Linux

Presented by Rajiv Manglani, Gentoo Linux Security Team member and PPC
Developer.

Sponsored by MIT SIPB.

Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 6-8:00pm, MIT Building 1, room 190.

This session will cover advanced usage of Gentoo Linux. Current Gentoo
users are encouraged to attend with their questions and anecdotes.

If you plan on attending please RSVP to <sipb-iap-gentoo@mit.edu>.

For more information see <http://www.mit.edu/iap/gentoo/>.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo presentations in boston, ma, usa

[Sven Vermeulen]

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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:23:41AM -0500, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
> hello all. i will be giving 2 presentations on gentoo at MIT 
> (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, MA, USA, on 1/8 
> and 1/13. they are open to anyone who rsvps.
[...]

A couple of (silly) remarks if you don't mind :) It's based on the
presentation material available on your dev-space which you say is a bit
outdated, so apologies if you have already fixed those issues...

Page 2 of your presentation sais that Gentoo was started 5 years ago by
Daniel. Enoch was started in 1999 (which is now 5 years ago), but the name
Gentoo was first introduced in 2000.

Page 2 of your presentation sais that Gentoo (officially?) supports x86, ppc,
sparc and alpha. I believe hppa and mips are also officially supported and
that amd64 is in the running.

Page 5 of your presentation sais that the scripts download, compile and
install. Perhaps you might mention "patch" too which is a very important
aspect of the ebuilds.

Page 5 of your presentation gives some outdated versions:
	glibc 2.2.5 -> 2.3.2
	gcc   3.2.1 -> 3.2.3
	xfree 4.2   -> 4.3
	KDE   3.0.5 -> 3.1.4
	Gnome 2.0.2 -> 2.4

Page 5 of your presentation gives some bootloaders (grub, lilo, yaboot,
bootx). Perhaps you can mention the others too (aboot, milo, silo, palo)?

Page 5 of your presentation gives some kernel examples. Do add 2.6 :)

Page 5 of your presentation mentions prelinking and ccache. Perhaps distcc is
worth mentioning too?

Page 9 of your presentation sais that a net connection is required for
installation, which isn't the case anymore (it was with the rc's).

Page 9 of your presentation sais that it is "secure by default". I don't know
if you should add it here, but there is a feature called sfperms which will
improve privileges on setuid/setgid files.

Page 15 of your presentation enters some "coming soon". The following items
have already been integrated:
	- distcc
	- cpan/portage integration
	- cd-based installers
The following projects have stopped (correct me if I'm wrong plz):
	- s/390 port
	- embedded devices (pebenito?)
	- cvsup instead of rsync

Perhaps new items can be:
	- portage-ng
	- official AMD 64 support
	- udev support
	- ... 

Page 16 of your presentation talks about a 16-230 MiB iso images. Our basic
has grown out of these proportions. The new size range is about 95 - 600 MiB.

Page 16 of your presentations talks about the UT 2003 LiveCD, but that's
quite old now. A UT 2004 LiveCD will probably be available (see Daniel's
latest mails).

Page 16 of your presentation talks about LiveCDs for x86 and PPC. LiveCDs are
however available for: alpha, amd64, hppa (albeit outdated), ppc, sparc and
x86.

Page 17 of your presentation talks about the documentation. Please mention
the handbook as primary source for:
	- installation instructions
	- portage (user-level)
	- init scripts
	- environment variables
	- USE flags

Page 18 of your presentation talks about the Gentoo Community. It might be
interesting giving some numbers. From what I gather:
	- The forums have > 1000 posts per day and over 100 000 topics
	- There are more than 15 active mailinglists and +40 mailinglist in
	  general
	- #gentoo is freenode's biggest channel (700+ users)
	- We have +50 channels
	- bugtracking has more than 20 000 hits per day
	- our social contract ensures the community that 
		* we will never depend on non-free software
		* we will remain freely available
		* we move bugreports upstream ourselves if needed
		* we have an open bug process/development

One thing I miss in the presentation is a small talk about the organisation:
the projects and their goals. Also mentioning the GWN would be nice (although
you probably do that during the speach).


And finally, the Gentoo PR project is currently working on a presentation
template all Gentoo developers can use. I will also write up a document on
how presentations could be created and we will try to bundle all
presentations made for/by Gentoo so that updates in the distribution quickly
propagate to the presentations themselves.

That's it for now.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo presentations in boston, ma, usa

[Rajiv Aaron Manglani]

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>> hello all. i will be giving 2 presentations on gentoo at MIT
>> (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, MA, USA, on 1/8
>> and 1/13. they are open to anyone who rsvps.
> A couple of (silly) remarks if you don't mind :) It's based on the
> presentation material available on your dev-space which you say is a 
> bit
> outdated, so apologies if you have already fixed those issues...
>

thanks for the comments. the presentation files i have online currently 
are a year old (from when i last gave the talk at MIT in 1/2003).

i'm working on a new version and it will be online probably minutes 
before i give the presentation. most of your changes i have already 
included.

thanks!

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