Linux Users' Group of Davis - "LUGOD 2001.03.19 Meeting Notes"

2001.03.19 Meeting Notes

RIAA violates copying laws- they're starting their own MP3 service and aren't paying the artists royalties!
XFree86 4.0.3 released
An anti-spam bill is out in VA (supported by Rep. and Dem.) - penalties to include up to 12mos in jain and $15,000 (or $10/email) in fines
German foreign office stops using Microsoft, citing security concernes. (Worried NSA has backdoors)
Phil Carmody "found" a prime number, which, when turned to HEX and GUNZIPped turns into DeCSS!
Progeny Debian Release Candidate 1 available.
Black and White has gone gold. Ships March 27th. (For Linux, too?)
Electronic Boutique selling Linux games for ~$9.99!
NVIDIA Linux drivers 0.9-769 available
Linux is being used by NASA for satellite control
Eazel's Nautilus 1.0 is out
Eazel cuts staff by ~50%!
Linuxworld.com and Unixinsider (two IDG sites) closing
Linux Standards Base nearing completion
Security hole in TCP!?
Linux compatibility in PowerPC NetBSD
OSI modifies Open Source definition
Sylvania coming out with a Linux-based TV
Disney animation adopts Python; cites "shortcomings" in Perl
QT2.3 out; supports antialiased fonts!
First webcam (coffee-cam at Cambridge) going offline

Demo - Last demo was March 10th. We hooked the LUGOD demo box up to Border's new large TV. Next demo will be April 21st.
DCN - No news.
Other LUGs
- Mar. 20th - BALUG meeting (San Francisco). Topic TBA.
- Apr. 4th - SVLUG meeting (San Jose). Greg Stein and Karl Fogel of Subversion.
- Apr. 5th - SVBUG meeting (San Jose). Topic TBA.
- Apr. 15th - LUGOD and UCD CS Club holding an Installfest in Davis.
- Apr. 21st - LUGOD holds Linux demo at Borders in Davis.
- May 2nd - SVLUG, mobile Linux "and other fun stuff."
Installfests - The last Installfest was March 18th, and it was great! The Sacramento News & Review mentioned it (so we had a lot of drop-ins). A Netpliance iOpener was there, but couldn't get Linux installed due to a bad IDE cable (probably). We had one Mac laptop (successful) and two classic Macs (SEs? impossible!?)
LERT - One call for IDE help pending.

LUGOD CD - The "Winter 2001" LUGOD CD is available. 100 copies were pressed and donated by Z-World. It includes, among other things, StarOffice, Gimp, Linux Kernel (2.2.18 and 2.4.1), some multimedia files, some MSDOS tools, and much more...
Linux Terminal Server Project - LTSP and a school in Oregon are giving away 1000 Celeron CPUs to schools which participate in the project. They can set up a lab with 1 Linux server and 20 Linux clients for around $2000. We've contacted Richard Glass of the Yolo County of Education and he's looking into it. LUGOD's offered our help.
Financial Report - $56.70 in voluntary dues were collected. An Ethernet card was donated (to be given away at our next meeting.)

Bill Kendrick demonstrated the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA, and talked about other PDAs and small devices that run Linux.

"Aieee! ... Kernel Panic!" - Bill Kendrick, quoting the Linux Kernel (during Sunday's installfest)
"I just get all tingly inside." - Pete Salzman, regarding the anti-spam bill

LUGOD: PO Box 1336, Davis, CA 95617

URL: http://www.lugod.org/meetings/past/2001.03.19.php
Last updated: 2001 Jul 18 14:25