2007-12-06

MTU LUG meeting Minutes December 6th, 2007

Package Manager for PCLinuxOS

• command? it uses apt but is RPM based

Server Status

• Quicksilver has leaking capacators
• migrating to new hardware
• Maybe spending time after finals are done
• hardware back from minerva - but not tested
• SCSI backplane might of been loose... now seems fine and is rebuilding

Rack Status

• All the stuff to do it except the rails for the drive arrays
• Craus wants the rails for drive arrays first
• the racks they have aren't sturdy enough
• we were donated $500 by a Alumni so we can pay for all this stuff (base_16)
  • All our us belong to Base_16

New Mirrors

• we have crap tons of space
• Imhotep - 500G and 218G
• Athena - 826G
• Suggestions:
  • OpenBSD - 153G, or as little as 60G
  • GNU.org 40G
  • kernel.org 144G
  • VIM?
  • Mozilla -all 2.2T -releases 140G
  • Slackware
  • DSL?

Wemcab for rtlinux/vxworks

• what works?
• USB something doesn't automatically work with every OS
• rtlinux != vxworks

Shirts?

• next week

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