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Linux Meet-up. Anyone Interested?

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  • #92
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,196 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Count me in, after this Saturday I'm on hols from work for two weeks so any time is good for me. Will be nice to finally meet some like minded Linux heads.


  • #93
    jaqian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    Ok folks don't forget tomorrow meet up at 1.30 @ UCD. Meeting starts at 2.00.

    Heres the times etc and how to get there: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054903417


  • #94
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,196 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Ahh ****e lads, start work at 2 tomorrow so won't be able to make it. You guys have another meeting scheduled?


  • #95
    jaqian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    Let you know see if anyone turns up for this one first :)


  • #96
    jaqian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    EVERONE!!!
    LINUX MEETUP TOMORROW
    DONT FORGET !

    sorry for shouting :)


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  • #97
    Khannie
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 37,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Well....how did it go?


  • #98
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,196 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    Khannie wrote:
    Well....how did it go?
    Yeah I'd like to know too, any chance of another one soon? Off work for the next three weeks so I'd enjoy a Linux geek meet.


  • #99
    jaqian
    Registered Users Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭jaqian


    Khannie wrote:
    Well....how did it go?

    Great. 13 of us showed up not bad really. We had a demo of the xgl (3D) desktop on one of the lads laptops, really cool btw. Then we got talking about the direction of the LUG etc and what we want to achieve, before we knew it three hours had gone by. We agreed to meet up the 4th Saturday of every month so next meeting is 22nd april though venue hasn't been decided yet.

    I put some stuff together on a website (bear in mind though its a work in progress). The minutes of the meeting etc is there: www.freewebs.com/dublinlug/


  • #100
    gline
    Registered Users Posts: 6,630 ✭✭✭gline


    sorry couldnt make it lots on last week, next one should be on, i heard it went well from blowfish.

    a little OT but what would people recommend as the best linux based dedicated firewall for a sun sparc machine? bascially want to turn it into a firewall only.

    If possible I could bring it along next time and use it to demo an install and a bit of configuration?? Not just for someone to do it for me (as some are probably thinking), but to be shown how to and others shown to.

    What u think? useless idea???:D

    let me know. i think it might be interesting for some to see a linux based firewall in action

    and yes i am a noob to linux :D


  • #101
    larryone
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭larryone


    gline wrote:
    a little OT but what would people recommend as the best linux based dedicated firewall for a sun sparc machine? bascially want to turn it into a firewall only.

    Personally, I wouldnt put linux on a Sparc machine. The hardware was designed with Solaris in mind, and Solaris was designed with Sparc architecture in mind. You can get OpenSolaris for nothing, and it'll run just as well on your Sparc... There are some amazing things in Solaris that wont be seen on Linux for years to come. If I have an x86 box, then I'd definitely be installing Linux on it, but when I have Sparc hardware.... (Which reminds me, I have a Sun Ultra2 in need of a good reinstall)

    To answer your questing honestly tho, if I really had to put linux on a Sparc box, it'd proably be debian.


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