To The Linux Community, Attendees : 7 Venue : Internet Club, Broadway Date : 28th November 2004 Time : 2 pm As usual the meeting was kicked off the Agenda 'Altix & Supercomputing', the progress of ALtix into HPC. This is one of the areas where Linux has been consistently out performing any commercial operating system to reach super computing speeds. The users include NASA, Ford Motor Company, Roechester University, Total, the oil giant. This opens up the possibility for aspiring Linux entrants for opportunities which have not been provided by any other OS. The Second part of the meeting of the meeting continued with a demonstration of the installation of Debian Sarge. With the ease of use of debian Sarge being expalined by Balakrishnan Sir and that only two questions were asked in the whole of the installation, this had all the users satisfied that a flawless install could take place even with newbies. After this we had a general discussion on the Community and the role that it played in the Linux Development/Commercial activity. It was agreed that the community was producing a alot of free software for both the community as well as commercial entities. It was found that the community never received anything return for what it had produced, therefore a method to give the community returns, just as would the commercial entities, it was decided to find methods by which the community itself would be able to find methods to make some returns from the software that it produces and in turn help the community to produce better software and to have the rescources to continue the work being done by the community. It was decided that a special meeting be conducted on the 5th of December at 2 pm to discuss this and to find ways and means to do this. This ended the meeting of November 2004 -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
