[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?

[Kevin Brannen]

Jonathan Miller wrote:
> 
> Actually if I were forced to say anything negative about the NTLUG, it
> would be that there is much here for the "veteran". Like my current
> intrests are rolling my own distro for a few sparcs and doing pilot
> programming under Linux. These are things I wouldn'teven dream of talking
> about on this list normally.

You mean "not much here"?

And why not discuss those things here.  I would have nothing to
contribute on rolling your own distro as I have no experience there, but
I and others would be happy to give you advice on programming on Linux.

I'm about to dive into the SCM tool "aegis", and I'd like to start a big
discussion on this list about that topic [in a week or two].  To me,
that's something both newbies and veterns could both contribute to and
learn from.

> OK, actually there are 2 thing that I would say. Secondly, us all being
> fans of open source software, I'd like to know what kind of projects the
> members are involved in, and possibly have NTLUG sponsored projects.

I work on a team which has created "Orac", a database independent
monitoring tool.  It was even talked about in the Nov99 Linux Journal.
:-)  We're about to release v1.2.0 in a week.  Look at
http://www.kkitts.com/orac-dba/ if anyone is interested.

Kevin