VLUG Meeting Minutes 2000.05.09
Sadly inaccurate attendance figures
| Total | 50
| | VLUG members | 38
| | First-timers | 3
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Announcements
Carl "Captain Meeting" Constantine opened the meeting at about 7pm, with
a couple Linux news items. RedHat was putting some money into "Linux
Ventures", and Corel was still trying to save its butt with the Inprise
merger. Generally, though, it had been a quiet month.
With El Presidente and the membership director away, Carl also had to
take over their segments of the meeting. In the commercial moment he told
us about the Club's Linux CDs at $10 each, including the new Slackware 7 and
RedHat 6.2, and t-shirts at $20 each. For membership benefits including
discounts at computer and book stores and other places, check the Web
site.
Matthew Skala did his usual count of the meeting attendees, and then gave
a shameless plug for his BB&C Perl Course. The presenters were having
trouble with their demo system; although they offered to demo fdisk and
fsck, Carl instead conducted a brief Q&A session. Among other things,
we kicked around the new features of XFree 4, Corel's latest office suite
product, and system requirements for Linux laptops. Murray Strome tried to
give away his old Amiga 1000.
Presentation
Hans-Peter Oeste, on diskless Linux workstations.
BREAK
Further Presentation
Conclusion of the diskless workstation demo, after a break for fighting
with the demo machine configuration.
Adjourned
To Boston Pizza, for the usual refreshments.
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