How many of you have seen the movie Contact, directed by Robert Zemeckis?

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Just to remind you all, Mepis never sleeps, because some of us are positioned at different places around the globe.
In this sector, winter is just finished. We still need rain - about 5 years worth will do fine for starters.

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Yesterday Matt and Erin urged that I adopt an avatar to associate with my posts. The problem was, what would uniquely represent me?

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This particular blog entry will not be allowed to be replied to and it will not be long. I feel that something needs to be said since Warren does not want to say it. Most everybody, including the author of the newsforge article, is missing the point. MEPIS was contacted by the FSF and the offical stance of how the source needs to be distributed is as follows: "Any and all Linux distros/builds disseminated via the Internet are required to mirror the source code ..." This means we can't just give someone a CD or DVD when they request it. It means we need to make several Gigs of data available over the Internet. We feel that this can be a large stumbling block for many smaller distros that do not have the resources to supply the extra hard drive space and bandwidth to accomidate the extra source.

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I thought that readers might appreciate a commentary on how I got to be here. I'm not a computer professional, nor am I a young nerd.
The first new learning away from my day job was getting an amateur radio licence, in the early 1980s. Our household formed in the mid 80s and the groom brought a TRS-80 in which I had a little interest. Then later we bought a Vic-20, as the bigger Commodore stuff was too expensive for us. The Vic-20 had games and programming information, which I muddled around with, but didn't get anywhere with. The games were fun as the old TV we used had a constant vertical roll, adding a lot of difficulty to a simple maze game.

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A few weeks ago, I went to Debconf for the first time. For those of you who don't know--this is the annual conference (symposium?) for Debian Developers. Debconf6 was held in Oaxtepec MX.

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Ahhh...my first blog entry. Starting something new is always exciting to me. I am at this point in my life a full time college student working on my Masters. It is something new and a change for me. Unlike many people out there, I embrace change. Change is good. One place that is having significant problems with change is the world of academia. They have been indoctrinated to the Micro**ft philosophy. Don't get me wrong, Linux classes are offered at the college and university level, but only with minimal coverage of the bare basics of Linux and UNIX (this has been my experience). Even with students and industry calling for more instruction of Linux, UNIX, and open source products, academia is still afraid of the change. The use of Linux in industry has grown significantly over the past several years, and academia has failed to keep up. If you are a student and you are not being exposed to Linux in the classroom, I suggest you expose yourself. When you leave academia and hit the streets of the real world, Linux is out there, and you must know how to integrate Linux with other technologies within the network infrastructure you will be working in. Knowledge of Linux is, in my opinion, as essential a skill as using a Word processor.

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If you like talking tech then you have found the right place. This is my first blog entry in what I hope to be at least a weekly entry that talks about what we all like best...TECH! I am an avid reader of Digg, Slashdot, OsNews, and just other random sites devoted to tech news. I am also very opinionated about what I read and I am not afraid to voice my $0.02.

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This is it! If you want to tune in to the ongoing adventures of MEPIS development, you've come to the right place.

We've spent the past few days updating our portal software from Drupal 4.6.5 to 4.7.1. Then we upgraded the .org site to the new software and tested some of the new functionality.

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