2001.03.06 Meeting Notes

News

• IBM announced Linux has been ported to their new 64bit PowerPC architecture ("Power-3")
• IBM announced a massive Tux-based, 1960s-style Linux ad campaign
• Sanyo announced a Linux-based PDA is in the works

Committee Reports

• Demo - Next demos will be Sat. March 10th. Cory from Border's has left, because his position has been cut, company-wide!

• DCN - LUGOD held an Intro-to-Linux class on March 5th. About 20 people signed up, and most attended. We used DemoLinux, a version of Linux that boots and runs off of CDROM (no installation required).

• Other LUGs
  
  • Mar. 7th - SVLUG meeting (San Jose). Anne P. Mitchell on MAPS (spam blocking service).
  • Mar. 10th - LUGOD holds Linux demo at Borders in Davis.
  • Mar. 14th - SacLUG meeting (Sacramento). Bill Northrup on security.
  • Mar. 18th - Linux Installfest in Davis.
  • Mar. 20th - BALUG meeting (San Francisco). Topic TBA.
  • Apr. 4th - SVLUG meeting (San Jose). Greg Stein and Karl Fogel of Subversion.
  • Apr. 21st - LUGOD holds Linux demo at Borders in Davis (TENTATIVE).

• Installfests - The next Installfest will be Sunday, March 18th.

• LERT - No news.

Other Business

• Financial Report - $46.64 in voluntary dues were collected.

• Yopy - Chris DiBona brought a prototype "Yopy" (Samsung's ARM-based, Linux-based PDA)

• ISDN Modem - Bill Kendrick gave away an ISDN modem to whoever wanted it.

• Netaverse - Netaverse send a collection of Win4Lin CDs and a t-shirt, which we gave away.

Presentation

• Chuck Polisher did a talk on building the Linux Kernel.

Presentation notes available (JPEG)

Attendance

• Bill Kendrick
• Rhonda Bailey
• Edwin Groot
• Lynn Wood
• Jim Riffel
• Henry House
• Lee Welters
• Matt Henningson
• Seth Nagao
• Jeff Roush
• John Lin
• Jeff DeFay
• Ed O'Neil
• Brian Lavendar
• Trace Melton
• Kirk Shroeder
• Craugh Coughlin
• Chris DiBona
• Larry Shnider
• Chuck Polisher
• Garett
• Kevin Murakoshi
• Jacob
• Sterling
• Nick Henders
• John Foster
• Steven Helms
• Jen Rutherford
• ... and 6 others

Photos of this meeting

Quote of the Meeting

• "Menuconfig: Yay! XConfig: Boo!" - Chuck Polisher
• "The odd ones - some people call them bad names, things we label criminals. They call them... 'unstable.'" - Chuck Polisher, on Kernel version numbering