[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Firstly, kudos and thanks to Carl Cerecke for his lucid and entertaining
talk on Regular Expressions. Your experience in teaching shows, you
explain clearly and present well.
Secondly thanks to Volker for coming along ready to present something on
iptables. Its a pity we didn't have time to get you started, but your
suggestion of a discussion on needs for future meetings was valuable.
Hear hear.
What arose?
<snips>
Andrew Turner is to talk on BSD. Differences and similarities to Linux,
ports system etc.
Rik requested a talk on "The Unix Specification" and how linux differs
from unix, how much linux complies with the spec etc. No one felt
qualified to speak on this, but if someone on the list is interested in
speaking on this, please stand up now.
Pretty close to a quote, thanks Nick. As you've documented, this idea
flows on from what Andrew will be doing for us. It was:
Why is Linux not Unix? What is the up-to-the-moment state of The Single
UNIX® Specification http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/
and where does BSD stand, ahead or behind, GNU/Linux and Unix?
John Carter is to speak on a presently unknown topic (next month?). Can we
have details John?
Very keen to hear more from John's idiosyncratic and insightful approach
to *nix.
There were a few other suggestions, but I didn't make a note, this is from
memory.
Mine is starting to suffer from lack of sleep these days too :-/
2007 resolution: to throttle back on "Linux".
- People need to be quite proactive to get their interests and
requirements recognised, these days (i.e. keep supplementing Nick's
listing of topics).
People can add suggestions to this thread, but please also add them to the
new wiki page I just made. http://clug.net.nz/index.php/ProposedTopics
Will do.
Cheers
--
Rik
