VLUG Meeting Minutes 1999.05.11
Sadly inaccurate attendance figures
| Total | 50
| | VLUG members | 31
| | First-timers | 7
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Announcements
The meeting started at 7:10 with Mike Thorpe as master of ceremonies. He
introduced Matthew Skala, who announced on behalf of the Board of Directors
that VLUG's Web server, ladybug , and the websites at www.vlug.org,
www.linux.ca, and www.linuxday.org, had been taken offline following a
denial of service attack against our system and our ISP's network. We had
been asked to find another place for our server; the Board of Directors was
looking into new locations for it, and resolving the situation.
Andrew Willard made the usual pitch for CDs and stuffed Tuxen, including
the freshly-burnt RedHat 6.0 discs.
Mike announced various news items of interest:
- Many interesting things can be seen on Slashdot, at
http://slashdot.org/.
- Sony and AOL are working on an
application device , apparently
some sort of set-top box, based on Linux.
- Sony has also announced that Linux will be the development platform for
the new Playstation.
- IBM has ported their ViaVoice voice recognition software to Linux
- The latest issue of IEEE Spectrum has its cover story on
open-source systems.
- Kernel 2.2.8 came out today
CaroLyn Schneider announced that Mike was getting married the following
weekend, and he was generally congratulated.
Presentation
Chris Halsall, on X Windowing System configuration.
Break
Further presentation
Chris continued the X presentation, with a demo of GNOME.
Carl Constantine talked briefly about CodeWarrior for Linux, then
answered questions about it; MetroWerks had provided several copies of the
product, which were raffled to the C programmers in the audience.
Adjourned
At 9:09, for the usual refreshments. The Q&A segment of the meeting
was skipped because of the late hour.
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