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  2. What did/do you guys do?

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    Thank you all for your answers.

     

    Maybe I should have mentioned that I currently live in France, but plan to potentially move abroad (for studies or work).

     

    In France, I've roughly heard (from what people say) that to get a job in France you are essentially judged on your degrees and the reputation of schools you attended. Apart from startups that rather look for "cheap beasts" that were not "school-compliant". On the other hand (still and above all from what I've heard in France), in the US, recruiters would rather judge you on what you actually did personally and you past jobs references.

     

    Another interesting point is: Do you think your what you learnt during your last school years is capital for what you do now? Or do you think you would have come to useful things anyway at the moment you would have need it?

  3. What did/do you guys do?

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    Hi guys,

     

    I'm currently studying to get a bachelor degree in computer science and I wonder what would be the best way to complete my studies afterward.

     

    I think Funtoo Linux users, more than any other distro I know, share a common passion on understanding what's actually going on between the "high-level layer" of their OS and the hardware. That's why I think your experiences and advices would be more valuable to me than those I could get from another more generic computer science forum.

     

    For now, courses are easy enough to allow me to spend my "non-uni-time" on a part-time job as web-developer. And I spend the most part of my left spare time refining my system configuration, developing automation/productivity tools and taking part in Funtoo development as much as I can.

     

    I pretty sure after my studies I would work in more or less the same field as you do (ie. somehow dealing with the low-level layer of the software, or even the hardware). So I would like to know what kind of work you do/did, and how was your studies.

     

    Especally I'm often asking these questions to myself:

    • Should I work my courses to get very good marks instead of good/sufficiant marks, instead of spending time learning things I think more relevant to me on my own (eg. getting involved in an open source community such as Funtoo)?
    • Would it be a good idea to make a PhD if I feel I could?

     

    Thank you in advance for your precious feedbacks about your experience.

  6. Development - Test process / how to test?

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    Please excuse me if it happens that I just can't search, but it seems that neither How to dev nor the Developer Guide explains how to test changes you made.

    Let's say I know the patch to apply, or changes to apply to an ebuild in order to fix FL-XXXX. How can I emulate the standard merging process to make sure once my fix will hit the tree, it will actually work?

    I don't think I am supposed to move my changes to /usr/portage/ :P. So I wonder what is the common way to do this.

     

    Thanks in advance.

  10. [Wiki] Remove fancynote and counterparts in favor of their non-fancy equivalents

    in Funtoo Infrastructure

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    With the new design Template:Fancynote is now an alias for Template:Note.

     

    Though {{Fancynote}} is most widely used, I'd suggest to remove it in favor of {{Note}} which is more concise and meaningful.

     

    If you agree, I will replace all {{Fancynote}} occurences to {{Note}} and mark [[Template:Fancynote]] as deprecated (with the new template I created for that purpose) so that people using {{fancynote}} get warned it has changed.

     

    Obviously, this also applies to (fancy)important, (fancy)tip, and (fancy)warning.

     

    Not a big deal, but there is some general cleanup to do on the wiki regarding to deprecated things, old pages, unused things, wanted things, ...

  11. funtoo logo ideas

    in Funtoo Infrastructure

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    Whatever the logo I think it is important it can be "iconified" (ie. recognizable in a small square). I don't think we can shrink or crop any of the suggested logo so that when you see it in an icon you can say "Yeah this is the same, this is funtoo".

     

    I also think that before trying to design a logo, we should find the values we want to highlight and instill through the logo. To me, funtoo is kind of a gentoo (the fastest penguin) but with fun too. So theses are the values I would highlight

     

    • fun and flexible (in contrast to straight): curves rather than straitght lines and angles
    • light and fast (gentoo): colors that evoke something fresh or smooth

    I imagine a penguin sliding very fast on the belly or on skis. I think roughly the shape of the left penguin on the following picture would make a perfect logo.

    happy_cute_funny_penguins_having_fun_pos

    To me, this is funtoo.

  14. Join the Ebuild Documentation Effort!

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    I noticed some ebuilds are documented as http://www.funtoo.org/PkgName instead of http://www.funtoo.org/Package:PkgName (eg. http://www.funtoo.org/Dbus). Some ebuilds are also linked from both schemes (eg. http://www.funtoo.org/Boot-Update and http://www.funtoo.org/Package:Boot-Update ).

     

    I guess the prefered URL is http://www.funtoo.org/Package:PkgName. However, what should be done about old URLS? For instance, should I move http://www.funtoo.org/I3_Tiling_Window_Manager to http://www.funtoo.org/Package:I3_(Window_Manager) and add the {{Ebuild}} template? And how do I do a "symlink" from I3_Tiling_Window_Manager as with Boot-Update?

     

    Thanks

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