[LUGSB] Re: Novell+IBM buys SUSE

Sarang Lakare sarang at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Nov 6 10:56:54 EST 2003


Please do not forget Mandrake. Its the best distro out there IMHO. People 
using redhat should ideally move to Mandrake. 

Sarang

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 05:16 pm, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message 
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0311041653440.32175-100000 at guppy.limebrokerage.com>, Ion 
Badulescu writes:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Erez Zadok wrote:
> >
> > Did somebody say "Debian" :-)
>
> No kidding.
>
> There will have to be some totally freely available distro that people will
> like.  Heck, I'll put in time and effort to maintain stuff that goes into
> it (am-utils, fist, etc.) and help the whole community.  Maybe li.org will
> step up to the plate?
>
> > Ion
>
> Erez.
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In message <3FA9F611.6080209 at PaulBors.com>, Paul C Bors writes:

> Ion,
> 
> Are you a undergraduate student? Graduate student?
> 
> I am just curiouse, please write back to I at PaulBors.com
> 
> Mersi mult :)

Ion was completing his UG degree at Columbia when I was finishing my PhD.
We both were part of a sysadmin team that managed the CS dept. for a while.
Ion has been instrumental in hacking much of the Linux stackable file system
code that is part of the FiST project (my dissertation).  Ion is also a very
active maintainers of am-utils (the Berkeley Automounter).  Ion is still
pretty active.  Currently he's managing the systems of a wall st. financial
firm.

Erez.
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The FSL has a mirror of the Fedora ISO images.  This should be an
excellent source to get them on campus.

Get 'em while there hot:
	ftp://ftp.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/linux/fedora/

Both source and i386 ISOs are available.

And thanks to Unionfs we have the packages available from:

	ftp://ftp.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/linux/fedora/yarrow-binary-i386
        ftp://tfp.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/linux/fedora/yarrow-src-i386

Happy installing,
Chip
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Hey,
I just want to thank everyone who came out to see Revolution OS
tonight.  Pictures of the event are available on LUGSB's website located
at: http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/lugsb.  Here's a direct link to the
page with the pictures:
http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/lugsb/events/revolutionOS.php

--Mark.



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