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| [PLUG] [plug-announce] Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - "Gentoo Everywhere: An Introduction to Prefix" by Rich Freeman (PLUG North at CoreDial in Blue Bell, 7pm) |
This month, PLUG North welcomes back Rich Freeman, who will be giving a talk on Gentoo Prefix. Rich has previously given a version of this talk at PLUG West. Unix is even more ubiquitous than Linux, but the sad fact is that not all Unix systems are created equal. If you'e ever found yourself staring at a command line and struggling to remember bsd syntax, or finding that you're forced to work on a box for which no gcc is available and autoconf is at v1.11, then perhaps Prefix is for you. Or, perhaps you run a more modern distro but need a development environment different from what is supplied, and a chroot jail isn't adequate for some reason. Gentoo Prefix is an innovative and flexible non-chroot solution to running a modern linux userspace on a system otherwise managed by some other operating system. This overview/demo will help you to understand both its strengths and weaknesses, and equip you should you wish to give it a try yourself. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ The meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 12, from 7-9pm (7-8 General Q&A, 8-9 Presentation) at CoreDial: CoreDial (http://www.coredial.com/) 1787 Sentry Parkway West Suite 100 (Building 16) Blue Bell, PA 19422 Directions and other information are on our website: http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/coredial.html We request that you RSVP at rsvp@phillylinux.org if you intend on coming so we have some idea of how many to expect, but it is not required. _______________________________________________ plug-announce mailing list plug-announce@lists.phillylinux.org http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug