[plug] [OT] linmagau got slashdotted!

[Kimberly Shelt]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 07:12:12PM +0800, Scott Middleton wrote:
<snips a bit>
> > 
> Nobody set out to sabotage Gentoo and Bill did the best job he knew with
> the information readily available. We announced the idea a couple of
> weeks before and quite frankly we were surprised by the lack of interest
> we got from the Gentoo users. We didn't think there were that many of
> them. I hope the next test will be considered fair and maybe we will get
> more feedback *before* we do the tests.

So far the feedback has been pretty ok.. some good level headed suggestions
I think between Indy and Bill they are compling a next issue response etc..

The site is finally slowing down.. however the story itself really did
get hit a lot.. 30k plus.. and I have seen a lot of other forums 
discussing the issue.. 

Terrific(albeit dumb luck) timing on our behalf.. 
ie  "new" Gentoo out now 
Details on the PLUG site :)
> 
> I hope to convince Xtreme to lend one computer and three HDD. That way i
> can lend a HDD to Bill to do the optimisations a couple of weeks before.
> The computer I was discussing with Andrew @ Xtreme is a Hyper-Threaded
> P4 with an Intel entry server board and 512 MB DDR. Otherwise we will
> use one of ours.

This sounds great..when can we do it again ?

We also got some feedback about doing other distros ?. Whilst this is 
perhaps not the time.. we(LinMagAu) really would love to do more of this
kind of thing.. and RH/Mandrake/Suse/BSD folks hanging about that
might like to have a go ?

Kim
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Done the survey yet ?..  WA is sadly lagging in the numbers.. :(