VLUG Meeting Notes 2002.12.10

TOPIC: Introduction to Linux

Presenter: Owen Stampflee

Attendance Figures:
Total	34
Non-members	2
First-timers	3

NEWS

• 2.4.20 kernel has a journaling filesystem bug that's being addressed
• 2.5.51 kernel is now out - new drivers, faster, scalable
• GnuCash 1.8 is now out
  additionally; a python script for GnuCash is available for payroll work
• KDE 3.1 release delayed until January 2003, due to security issues
• Legal beagle stuff:
  - Adobe vs. Elcomsoft case - acquitted on all counts
  - Jon Johansen (creator of DeCSS for DVD decryption) case ongoing
• update on City of Largo, Florida -- expanding use of Linux and KDE to
  supplant MS Windows (ie. X-Terminals in police cruisers)
• 'post-meeting hangout venue' discussion arises again, wrt the kitchen
  at the Grad Lounge closing at 21:00 making it problematic for VLUG
• statement of intent by BOD to invite Linus and rest of Linux Lunacy
  Cruise 2003 participants out for an afternoon (evening?) in Victoria

Newbie Minute: An Introduction to sed by Mike Pfleger

• a quick and dirty introduction into using sed to accomplish repetitive
  search and replace operations on multiple files
• an HTML file is processed as part of the demonstration

Main Presentation: Introduction to Linux by Owen Stampflee

Points of interest

• UNIX & GNU/Linux filesystem structure for beginners
• basic UNIX commands (including sed)
• networking commands and files (ie. /etc/hosts )
• archiving using tar with bzip2 and gzip
• resources management with ps, kill, top, xkill, nice and renice
• finding help using man, info, apropos
• a brief look at standard input (stdin), standard output (stdout),
  redirection and pipes

the full text for Owen Stampflee's Introduction to Linux Presentation

Meeting Adjourned  to Boston Pizza.

Next Meeting:

Where: University of Victoria, Cornett Room B-108
When: January 14, 2003
Topic: Writing in LaTeX by Dr. Daniel German

Notes from Mike Pfleger - VLUG Secretary.
secretary@vlug.org