[ale] ALE - NW meeting April 18th

[Geoffrey]

David S. Jackson wrote:

> 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?

Although I've not explicitly stated that, I kinda assume it will happen. 
     I guess it should be more formalized, as that's the part I expect 
will pull the more experienced users to the meetings that have 
presentations like the one this week (intro to linux by Kevin K.).

So, yes, I think this should be a regular part of the meetings, either 
following or prior to the presentation.  I would guess following.

> 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.

Sounds great to me.  I'm not real big on format anyway.  Kevin will be 
putting together the presentation for Thursday. Why don't you drop him 
some email, I'm sure he'd welcome the assistance.  I think folks need to 
know how it all started.

Kevin's email: krum at smyrnacable.net

Thanks Dave.

I for one, welcome all the help we can get.

> 
> Sound worthwhile?
> 
> 


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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