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by Claire Lemire - January 23, 2002 at 23:27:02:
This will be brief as many of our usual members present were making their way to MacWorld, San Francisco, so we were a bit shy but still there. I brought web page printouts for the newbies as to where to look for MacWorld info, software updates, and important Mac news. The flier for the next OACC meeting was also available and that topic will be VirtualPC.Attending members bemoaned not being at MacWorld themselves but we made the best of it. Mostly we discussed the new iMac design, hardware changes, OS X, and many permutations of such. The new design is amazing - a 15 inch flat screen poised on a dual-ended 180 degree swivel arm attached to a base like no other... a simple half sphere, about the height of a CD jewel case, in white with an Apple logo on it. While PCers know the flat screen merged with an HD is no surprise, I think they'll look twice at this design for good reasons.
Next month we will be sharing all the goodies the members bring back from MacWorld SF. Remember it's 11:15 am now in Wilkerson 210.
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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