LILUG General Meeting - Wednesday, 9 January, 2001
From Lilug
Meeting Summary
Speakers
- Michael Smith - LXNY
- Michael Smith of LXNY talked about his organization, the New York Free Software Organization. He mentioned about his group's activities regarding recent legal battles over free software and related technologies. He also gave an overview of how one can go about learning Linux/Unix, including some novel ideas about using your Linux-enabled computer to your advantage.
- Sanj - NSIWeb
- Sanj from NSIWeb in Farmingdale made a brief pitch looking for persons looking for work as Linux/Unix sysadmins. NSIWeb is the largest privately held webhosting company in the U.S. with several datacenters and is ready to hire.
Discussions/Announcements
Recent LILUG InstallDay
- LILUG President Matt Newhall mentioned that the recent Install Day on Sunday 7 January 2001 wasn't well attended, and thus we'll probably have another one in March, before the general meeting of 13 March.
LinuxWorld
- LinuxWorld is coming up. LILUG will probably be sharing a booth with LXNY. We still can use some members to cover our booth. Remember, you can get free floor admission and a discount on the other events if you help out!
Raffle at Next Meeting
- We will have a couple of items (a book on DNS bind and a copy of Quake III) to be raffled off at the next meeting, courtesy of Matt N.
Compling the 2.4 Kernel
- Recent mailing list activity centered around how to compile the 2.4 kernel. Not too many members have attempted it yet. It turns out that it's okay to build the kernel as a non-root user in your own home directory and then install as root, or to do the whole process as root within a symlinked directory (such as /usr/src/linux) which points to the actual source.
Group Business
Raffle
- Jim Brown won a copy of Myth II - Soulfighter
Next Month
- We will have a LAN Party at the next general meeting.
- Secretary's Note: In the days following the meeting, it was announced on the mailing list that Erik Troan of RedHat will becoming to the February meeting. Thus the LAN party will be held in March instead.
(Meeting summary taken from Minutes published on original LILUG website from 15 January 2001)
Msurico 23:35, 28 May 2006 (EDT)
Contributed Notes on Meeting From Others
- none