[SlugLUG] New Member Here!

[Erich Blume]

Hello there! Welcome to the group. There are meetings during the normal
school year, in the form of install fests usually, but I think you'll find
that mostly we just communicate via this mailing list. It's a place to
bounce problems around, as well as share tips and stories.

As for Solaris - you'll have no trouble finding a Solaris machine on campus
(as for why the school uses them, you'll have to ask someone else), but I
personally wouldn't look forward to the experience. The user interface is
clunky and nonfunctional, the kernel is stale, and administrating one is a
pain. I know from experience - I had one, and I switched it over to gentoo.
(You have to use a special version of lilo to do circumvent Sun's boot
loader and there are stiff restrictions on the kernel's size.)

Lastly, I'd also like to tell you ahead of time (since it took me a while to
figure it out), a fair portion of the users of this list are actually not
students. I believe we even have a few campus IT people writing here, I
think from ResNet.

Welcome, and enjoy the show! (The flame wars are wonderful, if infrequent.)

~Erich

On 9/16/06 9:54 PM, "Randall Clark Degges Ii" <rdeggesi at ucsc.edu> wrote:

> Hi guys. My name is Randall :D I'm a first-year Computer
> Science Major here at Crown College UCSC! I'm really
> excited to be here, and computer science is my life. I
> love it to death. I have been programming for a few years
> and I've extensively used Linux && BSD systems (no
> Solaris, YET). I love Open Source operating systems and
> since slugLUG is apparently the largest LUG on campus, I'm
> totally in. I can't wait to be an active member. So just
> thought I'd introduce myself and say 'hi' to everyone.
> 
> -Randall
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