VLUG Meeting Minutes 1998.11.10
People who were present in no particular order:
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Matthew Skala
Chris Hanlon
Brian Kiful (sp?)
Randy Esdon
Ewan Edwards
Andrew Burgess II
Genop Giczy (guest from Hungary)
Nick Wilson
Danny Sinclair
Brent Sirna
Chris Hennessy
Earl Smith
Mark McLaughlin
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Mark Elrod
Hans-Peter Oeste
George Pearce
Pavel Zaitsev
David Lee
Richard Carlsson
Cindy Liboiron
Colin O'Connor
Paul Heinz
Chris Halsall
Mike Thorpe
Deid Reimer
Tom McVeigh
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Chris Halsall called the meeting to order and announced the agenda.
New business: We have two Red Hat 5.2 boxed sets from RedHat. Chris
suggested and after some discussion it was agreed, that we donate one of
the sets to the public library and use one for a door prize at the next
meeting (December 8).
Discussion of the current StarOffice; it has locked up Chris's and Mike
Thorpe's machines twice each. (They're trying really hard to make
it a clone of Office...)
Mike Thorpe reported on the current status of the CD-R rumor: apparently
the makers of CD-R burning equipment are cutting a deal with the
government, to attach the tax to the burners instead of to the media. It
is not clear whether this would apply to all burning equipment, or just
the consumer audio-style CD duplicating machines. So it sounds like you
don't have to stock up now on media, but maybe should buy that burner you
were thinking about for Christmas.
More new business: would there be interest in putting together a committee
to analyse the Halloween documents and report on them? Answer: yes!
Mike, Deid Reimer, Matthew Skala, and Tom McVeigh volunteered to work on
this.
Another item: the Freenet wants some documentation on how to use Linux to
set up X-terminal style machines for web surfing. Call for volunteers for
this.
Presentation: by Deid Reimer, on Professional HomePages (PHP)
BREAK for coffee/etc.
Presentation: by Matthew Skala, on the man command
Discussion: configuring keyboard under X. General thread: it's specific
to the applications you're using.
Question: when will the next InstallFest be? Answer: early January
Question: on the feasibility of running programs for other Unices under
Linux. Discussion. General consensus: if you have source, it's not a
problem. If you don't have source but have a binary for some other Unix
on the same hardware platform, you may have some success with emulation
libraries but it's iffy.
Discussion: of RT Linux, what realtime means with respect to
operating systems, and why it could be useful.
Adjourned for pizza and beer.
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