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by Jim Holder, caholder@surfbest.net - January 23, 2002 at 23:26:03:
Linux SIG, Jim Holder, NOCCC The January 6, 2002 meeting was started with a restatement of the first meeting's theme as the SIG theme: "Making Linux User Friendly," for those without either Unix or Linux experience or a programming background.OLD BUSINESS Several of the items mentioned in the last SIG report (December 1999: Beginner's Guide and Beginner's Website Links was delayed as the SIG leader found a virus of his own (Human that is). Played host to the critter for almost 3 weeks.
Patricia Bunning was unable to attend the January meeting, but did send an email as to the results of her research on firewalls and antivirus software that runs under Linux. The best source of information seems to be the text Hacking Linux Exposed, by Brian Hatch, James B. Lee and George Kurtz. The List price is $39.99, but Amazon.com has it for $27.99, while Barnes and Noble it is $31.99. A&S Discount Books, 8520 E Chapman, Orange (714-538-7404) offers the text for $19.99.
Few viruses seem to be a problem for Linux. But Hacking is a real possibility. The text has a lot of information on setting up firewalls.
Simplified documents for the new Linux user (spelled newbie) remains a task no one seems inclined to step up too. The same is true for a list of websites that are of value to a newbie, and what each site might contribute to the learning experience of a newbie. It is possible that reviewing the installation approach of the install scripts in use in Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE would give some help in preparing a generic script set and documentation for a user (as defined above).
NEW BUSINESS
Dave Skurkis () has volunteered to down load the various distributions of Linux from the web. ISO CD-ROM images are available for Red Hat, Peanut, Slackware, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, Caldern, Corel and Demolinux. I talked with Dan and he is working out a way to supply the images on a hard disk. From there they can be downloaded (burned) to CR-ROM. That still leaves about a dozen distributions marked for inclusion in the SIG software library.
The next meeting, February 3, 2001, we will begin to look at the first offerings for SIG software library, i.e., CD-ROMs of the major distributions of Linus. Hopefully at the March meeting at least one of the library entries can be demonstrated on an older platform (300Mhtz).
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