Re: LUG: Realm Kit! Volunteers Needed! - Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:53 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Realm Kit! Volunteers Needed!

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:53 -0400

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:33:21PM -0400, Alexander Ray wrote:
> Hello, everybody,
>
> I'd like to issue a call out for anyone who has experience with, wants
> experience with, or needs experience with the Realm Kit. This realm
> kit would be a set of packages and/or modules that would add on to
> Fedora or Ubuntu, and add NCSU fuctionality. Specifically,
> authentication through kerberos, aquiring tokens, OpenAFS, and
> NCSU-Specific software and services, etc.
>
> For those that have missed the memo, we've started tracking down the
> old LUG bank account, which (to the last record we have) was at
> ~$1100. One of the plans with what to do with the funding was invest
> in some considerably sized (~2-4 GB) USB thumb drives, and have them
> installed and partitioned such that they can be booted and the user
> have a fair amount of space to use and play with. This offers users
> the ability to test Linux (and the device drivers that go with it) on
> their computer without touching the hard drive. Ideally, we could
> have these made with Realm Fedora or Realm Ubuntu, as those two are
> forgiving to new users.
>
> I'll say that I, for one, am very interested in extending the Realm
> Kit for Ubuntu. Outside of the Linux user group, 2 out of every three
> users I see with linux have some form of *buntu, so this is a large
> demographic we could appeal to.
>
> Who's in?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Alex Ray
> ~Treasurer

Alex,

I would love to see some contributions to the Realm Linux project. I
will be glad to offer whatever resources I can to you folks. Please
feel free to make use and contribute to the CLS Wiki. I also have
space to provide package repositories and SCM space. (Git is the
easiest, but we have SVN and HG around as well.)

I know Warren Jasper is always looking for some Fedora Realm stuffs and
assistance. Some of that I just haven't had time to get to in planning
Realm Linux 6. I'm also interested in an ubuntu project. (The name
uRealmtu has been suggested.) There is also the remains of a
rPath/rBuilder project from a couple years ago.

Feel free to make use of the realmlinux-dev list as well.

Jack

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Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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