The June meeting took place at the Country Book shop.
This is what used to be Hassop station when the Derby to Manchester
line was still there. More than a few people agree
that this is an excellent place a for a Linux User Group venue.
Saturday the 7th of June saw one of those rare English summer days when the sun came out and everyone was seen to be basking in the sun in Derbyshire instead of slaving away in an office in Manchester or Sheffield. Simon Robinson came along from SR Networks over in Barnsley once again. He wanted to get his Linux laptop sorted out and so we installed SuSE 8.2 into it. A slight glitch on installation messed up his partition table. We hope that he is able to sort this out. Shouldn't be a problem for a man of his abilities. Peter collier came over from Buxton to sort out his Linux workstation. Jan White from Sheffield University was having problems with Grub once again. We pointed her at Dr Owen le Blanc over at Manchester Computing Centre. Strangely Alec Melling has got his laptop and workstation running on Linux permanently. Well done Alec. He tells us that he is now a winduhs free zone. At last ! Free of the tyrany of the dark lord of Redmond !
There was the usual complex discussion of the kind of issues that most people don't get to know about. Our LUG meetings usually contain some sort of session about the fact that GNU/Linux and BSD software and it's use in a commercial environment raise more questions than many people might imagine. That and the fact that a lot of IT professionals haven't yet been trained properly.
June promises to be an interesting month. There has been further discussion of the R.I.P bill and the Home Office closes it's requests for comments session about now. On the 23rd Tim O'Reilly is due to give his LAMP speech at City University in London and then for three days after that there is the much cancelled Linux Expo at NEC in Birmingham. We think that it might actually happen this time. Looking around us the KDE 3.1 window manager is really popular. Ximian have taken Gnome and are presently calling it something like Xd2. Odd name for a window manager ? The Evolution application has caught on quite a bit. The 2.6 kernel is kind of almost there but not quite. There has been some discussion of this in the Linux Journal. Meanwhile the SCO/M$ vs the rest case goes on apace whilst the rest of us get a good night's sleep.
Our July meeting will proably be at Sheffield Hallam University and back to the Country Bookshop in August. Hope we see you there.
Saturday the 7th of June saw one of those rare English summer days when the sun came out and everyone was seen to be basking in the sun in Derbyshire instead of slaving away in an office in Manchester or Sheffield. Simon Robinson came along from SR Networks over in Barnsley once again. He wanted to get his Linux laptop sorted out and so we installed SuSE 8.2 into it. A slight glitch on installation messed up his partition table. We hope that he is able to sort this out. Shouldn't be a problem for a man of his abilities. Peter collier came over from Buxton to sort out his Linux workstation. Jan White from Sheffield University was having problems with Grub once again. We pointed her at Dr Owen le Blanc over at Manchester Computing Centre. Strangely Alec Melling has got his laptop and workstation running on Linux permanently. Well done Alec. He tells us that he is now a winduhs free zone. At last ! Free of the tyrany of the dark lord of Redmond !
There was the usual complex discussion of the kind of issues that most people don't get to know about. Our LUG meetings usually contain some sort of session about the fact that GNU/Linux and BSD software and it's use in a commercial environment raise more questions than many people might imagine. That and the fact that a lot of IT professionals haven't yet been trained properly.
June promises to be an interesting month. There has been further discussion of the R.I.P bill and the Home Office closes it's requests for comments session about now. On the 23rd Tim O'Reilly is due to give his LAMP speech at City University in London and then for three days after that there is the much cancelled Linux Expo at NEC in Birmingham. We think that it might actually happen this time. Looking around us the KDE 3.1 window manager is really popular. Ximian have taken Gnome and are presently calling it something like Xd2. Odd name for a window manager ? The Evolution application has caught on quite a bit. The 2.6 kernel is kind of almost there but not quite. There has been some discussion of this in the Linux Journal. Meanwhile the SCO/M$ vs the rest case goes on apace whilst the rest of us get a good night's sleep.
Our July meeting will proably be at Sheffield Hallam University and back to the Country Bookshop in August. Hope we see you there.