28 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Gentoo
Who would have thought… a Gentoo graphical installer! Mick, you should have tried this before rebuilding your system
Gentoo Linux Installer Project Page and the mirror.
This reminds me a little of the old Mandrake installer that I was using around the v7 mark maybe? Once this installer goes mainstream, will it mean that more [...]
23 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Linux
It was a HUGE night last night. I had good intentions in going to the presenations today, but it didn’t quite work out that way. I ended up getting up at about 9:00am - 9:30am and had a shower and stuff. I may have been a little sick too
I sat in T1 for the [...]
23 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Linux
Funny. Very funny night. Here’s a photo of me.
Horses… and more horses. Being poured into sideways glasses… and drunk by my peeps in pubs. Carlton Draught. Made from Beer. Not stolen at all from some random Irish pub in Canberra.
Also, before I got to bed (it’s currently 5:12am!!! OMG WTF BBQ!) the Cats rule [...]
22 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Linux
Unfortunatly, I still haven’t won one of the IBM X40 ThinkPads that the LCA organisers have been giving away. I still haven’t given up hope though. There is one left tomorrow, so fingers crossed.
This morning I went to the keynote by Andrew Morton, who is the Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer. Although he wasn’t much [...]
21 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Linux
The actual conference started on Wednesday, with the tutorials. The four of us (Me, Timmy, Tuddy, and Josh) went to the PHP session. Timmy and I stayed for the first bit, but left soon after. It was kinda dry, and Rasmus was talking lots about the differences in PHP5 compared to PHP4. Looks like they [...]
19 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Linux
I dragged myself out of bed at about 8am this morning. Needed to get there early for the GNOME miniconf. It was really awesome to actually put faces to the blogs of some of these GNOME guys, that I have been reading so much about on Planet GNOME.
Luis Villa started the morning off by [...]
18 Apr, 2005
Posted by: Andy Botting In: Linux
Well, we made the trip here in 9 hours from Ballarat. 10 for me, because I had to drive from Geelong to pick the other guys up. It was a pretty exciting trip, especially through Yass
All roads lead to Yass
We made it to ANU at about 7pm and migrated to our little res [...]