LILUG General Meeting - Tuesday, 9 November, 1999
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Discussions/Announcements
Upcoming speaker
- Matt Newhall has arranged to have Mark-Jason Dominus, of Perl magazine, speak to the group, most likely in January. Mark-Jason agreed to come provided LILUG will fund his train fare to and from Philadelphia (approximately $70) and also provide him a place to stay for that evening. While no volunteers have come forward to provide lodging, this will be worked on outside the regular meetings and progress will be reported back to the group. The group may also elect to take up a collection and/or use the general fund to procure lodging.
The Bazaar
- There will be an conference at the Jacob K. Javitz Center, New York, on 14-16 December, called "The Bazaar", meant to showcase Perl, Linux, and related technologies. There will be hands-on tutorials, lectures, and exhibitions. A 3-day pass for general session admission is $50. For more information on this conference, visit The Bazaar Website.
- Several LILUG members expressed interest in registering and attending (16 will "probably go", 8 of those 16 are "definite").
- Matt N. proposed the idea of "adopt-a-speaker". Since there are several Big Names in Linux/Perl participating in this Bazaar, it would be quite convenient to be able to persuade one of them to come on over to SUNY Farmingdale and speak at the LILUG meeting on the evening of the 14th of December. LILUG members are urged to consider adopting a speaker (meaning getting the speaker's email address, sending mail, and asking the speaker to consider appearing at the LILUG meeting).
Ride Sharing
- Matt N. suggested LILUG members consider ride sharing to help persons who are not able to otherwise get to the regular meetings. Carpooling would give those folks the chance to come out to our meetings.
Problems
- Support for 3D Video Cards by XFree
- In order to run full-bore with a 3D video card currently, one must either use the beta version 4 of XFree86 or use the current version 3 with the additional Mesa support.
Group Business
Constitution
- Matt Newhall presented the draft of the constitution (bylaws) for the club.
- A motion to adopt the bylaws as drafted was approved, and a vote was taken. The voting results were 19 for, 0 against, 10 abstained. The bylaws were thus accepted as the official bylaws of LILUG.
Elections
- At the regular December meeting, elections will be held for the positions of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary of LILUG
- Candidacy Announcements Of the current officers:
- Matt Newhall, President, will run again for President.
- Tom Rothamel, Vice-President, will not seek re-election.
- Matt Surico, Secretary, was undecided at the time of the meeting about seeking re-election.
- Ari Share, Treasurer, was not present at the meeting.
Group Forum
Discussion on Various Linux Distributions
- Several members took the floor to voice their opinions on distributions they've been involved with. The following is a very brief synopsis of the findings presented as pros (+) and cons (-)
- Debian
- + most sophisticated dependency/conflict resolution mechanism
- - often difficult during first time install
- + adheres to Linux file system standard
- + holds up well for long-term maintenance/upgrading
- Slackware
- + fairly easy to (begin) installing
- - need to have intimate knowledge on how the system works to do administration
- S.u.S.E
- - sometimes easy/sometimes hard to install
- - needs 16 MB of RAM to install
- - problems with plug and play
- + package manager uses RedHat RPMs
- + comes with lots of software
- + YaST allows you to save an installation configuration to a floppy to replicate the setup on multiple PCs.
- RedHat
- + large install base
- + very easy to find documentation
- - sometimes difficult to upgrade
- - not all RPMs on the Net are QA'd, leading to possible corruption/drift of base install
(Meeting summary taken from Minutes published on original LILUG website from 14 November 1999)
Msurico 00:09, 22 May 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none