Anyone else go to SGI's Linux University?

[Mike Cantrell]

Yeah... I wanted to do the XFS one but I was torn between the GL seminar which
was outdated and pretty boring. I was hoping they'd go more into detail about
xfree86 4 and DRI as well as new Nvidia drivers. I  wish I'd attended the XFS
one instead.

They had some pretty boring looking GL based programs running with low polygon
counts. I had hoped to see a real program like Q3 in action but no such luck.
Poor GL support is the only thing that keeps me from running Linux 100% of the
time.

Regards,
Mike Cantrell


"der.hans" wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Mike Cantrell wrote:
>
> > If so, what did you think? Looked like one big advertisment to me. If
> > you didn't go, you didn't miss much (except for some pretty cool SGI
> > Servers).
>
> I wasn't expecting much other than advertising, but SGI usually has better
> stuff to advertise :).
>
> The XFS and CXFS stuff was pretty cool, but I'm familiar with journalled
> file systems, so I was interested in the ads about what those two are and
> what they do. Full GPL is cool. XFS looks nice and CXFS looks pretty
> sweet. Transparent fs clustering would be pretty damned cool :).
>
> The clustering talk was somewhat interesting. They're not the only ones
> doing that, but it's nice to know they're doing it with Linux.
>
> The web/e-commerce talk sucked pretty bad. I was interested in seeing what
> they had for e-commerce, but we ended up just getting some basic info
> about apache and a few configuration tips (several of which were
> outdated). Useful to some, not to me. The mini Tux with the SGI tattoo on
> the belly didn't make up for that one...
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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