Oh, one other thing on XFree86. XFree86 4.0 is suppose to handle multiple
monitors with differing video adapter cards in the same machine. Someone a
couple of Clinic's ago was interested in using multiple monitors.
At 11:54 AM 10/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I went to the Portland Linux Group meeting last night. There were around
>50 or 60 people there (sorry I didn't actually count).
>
>Tim Witham who is "Intel MSL - Linux Program Manager" (what ever that
>means) talked for about an half hour on the Open Source Development Lab
>that is coming to Portland this year. It will be operational by December
>31, 2000. Tim is the new Lab Director.
>
>The lab's purpose is to give developers a place to validate their stuff for
>Enterprise Level Systems, i.e., big networks, processors (IBM 390s?), etc.
>Think of it as the box in the middle:
>
>[developers] -> [Open Source Development Lab] -> [Distributors]
>
>The lab is intended to be a "Lights out data center]. I think that means
>no one is actually there. Stuff is run remotely.
>
>Projects will be determined by the lab director following a Board of
>Director's guidelines. The Board will be made up of people from the
>sponsors and the Linux community. The Linux community will have 1 more
>person on the Board than the sponsors.
>
>If you want to know more, check out their web site at www.osdlab.org.
>
>Keith Packard spoke for about an hour on XFree86. He has been on the
>XFree86 core team for over 14 years. This was a very interesting talk.
>With release 4.0, X is now modular. The 4.02 release will support
>transparency and a better way to render fonts. These changes should make
>for a much better graphics programming environment. Okay, I don't know if
>I got this all right. I am new to Linux and so I am just sucking it all in
>- understanding will/is coming later... Anyway this revision seemed like a
>bid deal to me and I am looking forward to working on it. If your
>interested this stuff is available for you on the X web site. I don't know
>what it is but I am sure someone on this list does.
>
>The last thing I want to mention is that the Portland Linux Group is
>starting an "Advanced Topics" meeting to be held the 3rd Wednesday of each
>month. This is going to cover advanced topics where the audience is
>expected to already know a lot about the subject. The meetings are
>sponsored by Mandrake (they pay for the meeting room). Food and drinks are
>also available for you to purchase if you wish. The person making the
>announcement said that "You win if you are able to stump the speaker!" The
>first meeting will be on October 18th (you will need to find out from PLUG
>where and the time). The subject will be something like "Building a Tar
>System Backup that actually is usable." I think the problem is "How do you
>backup a system that is being used such that when you restore it all the
>pieces will still work together?" So if you go you should already have an
>idea why this is a problem and some of the things that one could try won't
>work. Sorry if I am stating the obvious - again I am still new to Linux...
>
>I didn't go out for beer with them afterwards so I don't know what happened
>there.
>
>Oh, one final thing, Intel was looking for a "Sr. Software Engineer" and a
>"Performance Software Engineer". I'll bring the two sheets they handed out
>to next Thursday's Clinic. The Intel contact is Tuan Phamdo
>(503/696-6251). He was NOT the person that made the announcement. If you
>need more information on this subject, you can call me (I'll read the spec
>sheets to you) or Mr. Phamdo.
>
>Kent
>
