[GLLUG] Meeting, May 12th

[Chick Tower]

Rick Houser will be showing us one of his Penguicon 
presentations/workshops on May 12th, next Tuesday.  Here is his 
description of it from the Penguicon listing.

"Wonder how RPM packages are put together? Want to learn how to do it 
yourself? This session will be a mix of presentation, and a workshop 
where everyone follows along with packaging a few simple, pre-selected 
source tarballs. A notebook running an RPM distribution (or remote 
access) is strongly preferred, but not required."

Rick says the tools he will be teaching about are command-line tools, so 
nobody will have to try running X remotely.  Rick also stated that, for 
this workshop, he recommends using Mageia, Fedora, and OpenSuSE, but not 
RHEL or CentOS.  I doubt that PCLLnuxOS would be a good choice, either, 
despite being RPM-based; its developers have modified apt-get to use RPM.

Perhaps Rick can verify if a live CD/DVD/USB version of these distros 
would suffice.
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                                Chick