The March meeting turned out to be one of our traditional question and answer workshops.  We had a really good session and much was achieved in a short time.   About fifteen people turned up over a four hour period.  One chap even came here from Bristol.  It was really nice to meet him.

  Taz and friends turned up and kept Craig and myself involved in an hour long conversation about general Linux stuff.   We expected to see Marc Boris Duerner early on in the session but he didn't arrive until after half past three.  We had made an arrangement to configure a Samba box for him so that he could use it as a file server.  I brought my own eight port hub along and we proceeded to install his sytem.  With the help of two different notebooks across the network things fell into place very quickly.  That's Boris to the right of the page.  He's studying chemistry just now.

Looks as if Craig has finally got his Debian notebook sorted out.   It's looking really good and there are signs of quietness coming from the Andrew's residence just lately.

Some of the older folk turned up and asked a longish list of questions.  All in all we had a good day out.

At the time of writing KDE 2.1 has just been released and Ximian Gnome is available. The 2.4 kernel is also reaching the 2.4.3 stage and is proving to be every bit as incredible as was promised.

We now look forward to next month when Rusty Russell will fly into to give us a talk about 2.4 kernel coding.  He'll give us his stuff whilst he's on his way past to Heathrow and home to Oz where he lives with his parents.