Date: Monday, April 17th, 2000:
Topic/Agenda: Ad Hoc discussions, planning meetings for the spring then adjorn to the Amherst Brew Pub
Growing Linux in the Area:
WeMaLu helps GCC with Linux Training Grant
Our defacto rep, Emily Slocombe, will explain what part WeMaLu will play if GCC wins the grant from Bell Atlantic
Time: 7 PM -til? Cost: FREE! Location UMASS, 301 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA
Some topics that have been suggested:
- More about nailed up connections: DSL, Cable, Masq and shared IPs, AND how to convince the cable man you love Redmond so they will setup your connection.
- How to run a home server: security, running the web server, email, DNS, what 24/7 really means
- The security talk
- SSL, SSH and VPNs: running secure data over the Internet
- WINE, games, and 3d-acceleration:
Quake3Arena, Unreal Tournament, 3d card prices falling, and the porting of the LithTech Engine all having become a reality for Linux Users, what will come next for Linux 3d? Also, to be discussed, getting Fallout (and other apps) to run on WINE, without a Win9x install.
- Embedded Linux - How far has is come from myth to reality.
- The customization of Linux - Similer to above but how can you produce a miny distrobution which only has the pieces you want. For example in a high school programming lab a distrbution with gcc, python, etc. But none of the administrative tools or other non-programming software.
- Java on Linux - The JDK is out, what else needs to be done / where to go from here.