This seems to be a reccuring theme - how about making, say, every third meeting a newbie-orientated one? This could then be publicised as a Linux learners meeting in the public, perhaps?
Just a thought Steve -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Johnsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 8:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CLUG Meeting 28th February-Topic and speaker-update Hi Nick (& co), OK I'll admit it .....with regards to Linux I'm pretty much a newbie :) The only experience I have with Linux was when I was given a "Linux for Idiot books" for Christmas (with Red Hat 5.2) & actually had a go at loading onto my machine as a dual boot config (Linux/....& dare I say it ......Win98). I actually did get the dual boot config to work without either system swearing at each other however I came unstuck at the linux end when I couldn't get either the sound or the modem to work. That is basically as far as I have got.....however I would like to get a bit further down the track in ability with regards to Linux. :) At some stage I'm looking to have Jetstart hooked up to my flat & I'm going to be putting together a PC that will be acting as a firewall for the rest of the flat. I want to use Linux to do the job....can't be bothered paying a small fortune for a copy of Windoze to do that. What sort of hardware requirements & software setup is required for that job ? How about that for a topic ? :) TIA Stuart At 04:24 8/02/02, you wrote: >CLUG, > >========================================================= >1/ >How about high-spec linux boxes and the inherent problems? > >I have recently purchased a dual PIII with a Gb of ram that runs fine, and a >C900 with a Gb of ram that goes like a dog when running the bigmem option. > >Doubtless some users there have had similar experiences, or perhaps they're >trying to use multi-terabyte disk arrays on a 2.0 machine or something like >that. > >Just a thought, and now that ram is piss-cheap more of us will start to >strike these problems. > >============================================================ >2/ > >I would like some clarification of the differences in window managers eg >what does KDE load/set up which others do not (apart from the menus). > >Also a firewall which reports unauthorised attempts to access my box >(say similar to Zonealarm for Windows) > >============================================================= >3/ >Someone suggested at networking in general evening a while back? > >=============================================================
