[ale] ALE - NW meeting April 18th

[David S. Jackson]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 07:34:40PM -0400 Geoffrey The Esoteric <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Following the last meeting I believe the consensus was that we needed 
> some introduction Linux presentations and set about working with another 
> member on putting such a presentation together.  I had planned on doing 
> the first presentation, but I've now got a conflict.  I'm working a 
> couple of different angles and will have a presentation on Thursday, I'm 
> just not sure what it will be just yet.
> 
> If anyone is interested in giving a presentation, at an ALE NW meeting, 
> please drop me a line.  There is a lot of interest at the school, but we 
> need some of the experienced Linux users to step up.

I've been having email problems lately, so slap me if this has been
answered already.

Why not do a little question answer period?  Switchboard is it?  Maybe
someone can step up (I'll be happy to try) and give a short history of
Linux, how Linus just wanted a terminal emulator to work on his new 386,
and he kept on adding stuff to it until it became a kernel project, how
RMS was getting locked out of pet projects when they left MIT and became
commercial, and perhaps a little how BSD got started to show how the
different inits work.

Sound worthwhile?

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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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