25th meeting

From BLUG

Topic: FreeBSD ports and upgrading
Presenter: Scott Blaydes

Date: Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Monroe County Public Library room 1B
Attendance: 5

Synopsis

Join BLUG for a presentation on the FreeBSD ports collection and "make world" upgrade system. FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Scott Blaydes will be discussing how FreeBSD compares to Gentoo Linux with regards to compiling for system specific hardware and installing software via portage.

After the presentation we will discuss things going on in the Linux community, both locally and abroad.

Post meeting summary

The meeting was bit off from plans due to a missing projector. Scott Blaydes gave a really informal talk about FreeBSD ports collection in comparison to Gentoo's portage and FreeBSD's makeworld upgrade procedure compared to Gentoo's "re-compile everything" upgrades.

Also discussed was the Suse/Microsoft deal and how the community views it, the release of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft and upgrades to Edgy Eft.