[NEWS] June GMN

nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1385 Location: SoCal

This thread is for discussion of the June issue of the Gentoo Monthly Newsletter. We hope you enjoyed reading it!

If you liked a certain article or felt that the GMN was published with something that we could do without, let us know. You can also put your comments and suggestions on how you think the next GMN should be.
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<UzzaDead> What is CONFIG_USB_MON?
<petteyg> A Jamaican USB configuration?

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antonlacon · Apprentice Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 230

A link to the GLEP's page ( http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/ ) or directly to the proposal would have made the council summary better. Even better would of been the inclusion of their abstracts directly into the newsletters so I wouldn't need to look them up.

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1633

nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1385 Location: SoCal

antonlacon · Apprentice Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 230

nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1385 Location: SoCal

I'll keep your comments in mind. Perhaps in the future we can at least link to the GLEPs. However, including their content, whether abstracts or summaries, is probably out of the question, as it takes too much time. The summaries we work with for the Council and Trustees meetings we have to obtain ourselves, so if there's an issue that they discuss, the GMN staff has to separately determine if there's a webpage or other resource available for it, find it, and figure out how to write it in to the article.

Also, I don't believe that providing just the GLEP abstracts in the GMN article is useful; GLEP abstracts are singularly unhelpful in my opinion, as they contain nothing of what you're asking for; that is, problem and proposed solution/rationale.

This kind of information, which is what you and other folks are looking for, is better provided by reading the full GLEP itself, rather than reading a GMN-provided overview or commentary. However, where possible, I'll see about at least linking to the GLEP or issue in question, assuming the item being discussed has an existing page.
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<UzzaDead> What is CONFIG_USB_MON?
<petteyg> A Jamaican USB configuration?

dirtyepic: "We have more cupholders."

GDP || PR

rgk · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:01 am Post subject:

well let me be positive
great GMN

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yngwin · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:25 am Post subject:

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1633

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zyko · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject:

Gentoo in outer space -- awesome! Does anybody know which other distros have been used in space before? Or is Gentoo even the first linux distribution to ever leave the planet?

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject:

codes · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:10 am Post subject:

sad to see that many gentoo devs left the project.

nightmorph · Developer Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 1385 Location: SoCal

Did you miss the huge disclaimer that said these were regularly scheduled retirements?

yngwin · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:24 am Post subject:

lappen · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 212

I love the Tips and Tricks section, electrical bills begone

codes · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject:

steltho · n00b Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 7

I thought the PowerTOP stuff was really cool. I went over to their website, and noticed they had some patches to help make some popular programs more energy efficient. Is there any thought of some sort of PowerTOP use flag that would allow you to emerge programs with some of these patches applied?