[PLUG] PLUG N Follow-up: Gentoo and other

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

Thanks to Richard for a great talk on Gentoo, I learned quite a bit and 
will certainly play around with it at least in a VM.


Related to Gentoo and it adapting the BSD port system, I highly 
recommend _Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD_
by Michael W. Lucas (November 2007, 744 pp.).  See my full review: 
http://www.pantug.org/joomla/index.php/book-reviews/37-general/240-absolute-freebsd-2nd

Even if you don't care about *BSD, it's a great read for Unix-y 
knowledge in general.  Put it on your x-mas list...

If you are a SysAdmin or need to touch a Cisco device occasionally, I 
also recommend _Cisco Routers for the Desperate_ by the same author.  I 
suspect anything he's written is very good.


I also mentioned ROXTerm, and how cool it is (and it's getting better, 
as the developer has been very responsive to my and other folks 
suggestions).  Even if you think Gnome-terminal is OK, check it out.

And I mentioned Thunar, the file-manager from XFCE, which installs clean 
with no dependencies on Gnome and is far faster than Nautilus.  Perhaps 
it doesn't have all the same bells and whistles, but 98% of the time it 
does more than enough for me, and it does it a lot faster.


Finally, the system I brought in for show-n-tell is a Meerkat 
(http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=91), and 
I just started using a Meerkat ION 
(http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=95) for a 
MythTV front-end.  I'll try to bring the Meerkat (not ION) to PLUG W 
next week too.

Later,
JP
----------------------------|:::======|-------------------------------
JP Vossen, CISSP            |:::======|      http://bashcookbook.com/
My Account, My Opinions     |=========|      http://www.jpsdomain.org/
----------------------------|=========|-------------------------------
"Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on
software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and
implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law.
___________________________________________________________________________
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