The September meeting turned out to be a fairly lively
ocassion that involved about twenty people in a longish and convoluted
discussion. The Sheffield Hallam University venue is well established
now and many people have said that they like to go there and they also like
the facilities that are available.
Guennadi Liakovehtski informed us that he is now moving on to other places. He was something of a live wire while he was here. We wish him well in his new line of work. Sanjay Nayak stopped by at our meeting on the way back to Bombay where he lives. As we all know many of the Indian programmers love Linux and don't want anything else. Sanjay says he will return and he promises to come to another meeting. Ruthie came to see us again from the deep dark north of . We were able to help her with Apache and a few other things. As she left through the door at the end of the meeting she said something like .. I learned more today than I did at most other times... or .. it was something like that. Richard Lewellyn Davies was still trying to work out how to get his scanner to work. Lets hope someone works it out for him. James Bruce came along with his own personal laptop - not the one from work - and I helped him to install some SuSE 7.2 updates. He was very impressed. Pieter Miering was able to give up some of his very precious time to come over and help with some basic tech support. It was really good to see him. He spends most of his spare time running our mailing list archive and the rest of it trying to keep his own tribe in order.
At the time of writing the 2.4 kernels have been around for some months but are only just now beginning to show some form of maturity and stability. The 2.2 version of KDE has been released to much acclaim and GNOME 1.4 is very much in use with much talk from Ximian of .NET for Linux. It remains to be seen whether the mono project will become more prominent. Many of us think that it will be a great success. GNOME itself will soon become the default desktop on most newly manufactured HP machines. The other popular desktops which are Windowmaker and XFCE are also racing ahead in the popularity stakes. KDE 3.0 is said to be with us any day now and many Unix and Linux people really would like to see the new version.
We enjoyed our meeting and as always we look forward to the next one
and many more.
Our main event this month was to have been the Linux Expo in Birmingham. It was cancelled leaving us sitting here twiddling our thumbs. We look forward to May when we are informed that this event will take place.
If you want to have a look at the announcement for the meeting you can download a pdf of postscript document by pressing the return button after highlighting the link below or by clicking on it....
People who were there ....
Myself James Mears James Bruce Richard Davis Pieter Miering Guennadi Liakovehtski Ruth Gunstone Sanjay Nayak Michael Ford Robert Pumphrey Nicholas Hayes and a small crowd of others. Want to come along ? Please do.
Guennadi Liakovehtski informed us that he is now moving on to other places. He was something of a live wire while he was here. We wish him well in his new line of work. Sanjay Nayak stopped by at our meeting on the way back to Bombay where he lives. As we all know many of the Indian programmers love Linux and don't want anything else. Sanjay says he will return and he promises to come to another meeting. Ruthie came to see us again from the deep dark north of . We were able to help her with Apache and a few other things. As she left through the door at the end of the meeting she said something like .. I learned more today than I did at most other times... or .. it was something like that. Richard Lewellyn Davies was still trying to work out how to get his scanner to work. Lets hope someone works it out for him. James Bruce came along with his own personal laptop - not the one from work - and I helped him to install some SuSE 7.2 updates. He was very impressed. Pieter Miering was able to give up some of his very precious time to come over and help with some basic tech support. It was really good to see him. He spends most of his spare time running our mailing list archive and the rest of it trying to keep his own tribe in order.
At the time of writing the 2.4 kernels have been around for some months but are only just now beginning to show some form of maturity and stability. The 2.2 version of KDE has been released to much acclaim and GNOME 1.4 is very much in use with much talk from Ximian of .NET for Linux. It remains to be seen whether the mono project will become more prominent. Many of us think that it will be a great success. GNOME itself will soon become the default desktop on most newly manufactured HP machines. The other popular desktops which are Windowmaker and XFCE are also racing ahead in the popularity stakes. KDE 3.0 is said to be with us any day now and many Unix and Linux people really would like to see the new version.
Our main event this month was to have been the Linux Expo in Birmingham. It was cancelled leaving us sitting here twiddling our thumbs. We look forward to May when we are informed that this event will take place.
If you want to have a look at the announcement for the meeting you can download a pdf of postscript document by pressing the return button after highlighting the link below or by clicking on it....
People who were there ....
Myself James Mears James Bruce Richard Davis Pieter Miering Guennadi Liakovehtski Ruth Gunstone Sanjay Nayak Michael Ford Robert Pumphrey Nicholas Hayes and a small crowd of others. Want to come along ? Please do.