When I worked at one where classified software was written, we were almost strictly using free software. QT and g++ for almost all of the software. Some researchers used other tools though. I really enjoyed working for the goverment though, but not the long commute.
I installed SGL the week before last. Last week I got tiered of tempfs and started using Gentoo. My first problem was that SGL needs faster dependency checking. I think it took about 45minutes to an hour to get the dependencies of the base system worked out. I was thinking that porting debian's apt would be a Good Thing. Maybe i'll play with it in bochs. In gentoo, if I choose 100 source packages, the dependencies are calculated in seconds. That tempfs was used for everything was a real problem for my poor desktop box that ONLY has 256MB RAM. I increased my swap bigtime, but it was eating up my resources. I ended up disabling the tempfs stuff which broke the scripts slightly. In Gentoo, I barely ever swap. I also enjoyed the Gentoo install process. Its a pretty well written text file. I learned a lot about what is done by distribution installers, inspiring me to look into writing an installer for gentoo. Also, neither of thesse distributions should be used at an installfest. as the take a very long time, like they should since they compile everything. Time willing, I will get started on either project mentioned here.
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When I worked at one where classified software was written, we were almost strictly using free software. QT and g++ for almost all of the software. Some researchers used other tools though.
I really enjoyed working for the goverment though, but not the long commute.
I installed SGL the week before last. Last week I got tiered of tempfs and started using Gentoo.
My first problem was that SGL needs faster dependency checking. I think it took about 45minutes to an hour to get the dependencies of the base system worked out. I was thinking that porting debian's apt would be a Good Thing. Maybe i'll play with it in bochs. In gentoo, if I choose 100 source packages, the dependencies are calculated in seconds.
That tempfs was used for everything was a real problem for my poor desktop box that ONLY has 256MB RAM. I increased my swap bigtime, but it was eating up my resources. I ended up disabling the tempfs stuff which broke the scripts slightly. In Gentoo, I barely ever swap.
I also enjoyed the Gentoo install process. Its a pretty well written text file. I learned a lot about what is done by distribution installers, inspiring me to look into writing an installer for gentoo.
Also, neither of thesse distributions should be used at an installfest. as the take a very long time, like they should since they compile everything.
Time willing, I will get started on either project mentioned here.
except it uses a credit card number and can be used anywhere credit cards are accepted. I saw a vending machine for this in a mall recently.