oxlug-announce February 1999

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Richard Stallman in London (23rd March)
by Alasdair G Kergon 26 Feb '99

26 Feb '99

http://www.ukuug.org/lugs/RS.shtml UK UNIX User Group The GNU Project and The GNU / LINUX System by Dr. Richard Stallman on Tuesday 23rd March, 1999 at 7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. The Commonwealth Institute Commonwealth Conference and Events Centre Kensington High Street London W8 6NQ Richard Stallman will speak about the goals, philosophy, history, methods, status and future plans of the GNU Project, which started in 1984 to develop a free software operating system compatible with Unix. GNU/Linux, a modified version of this operating system that uses Linux as the kernel, is now used by millions of people. Biography: Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be over 10 million users of GNU/Linux systems today. Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. He also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. He received the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for 1991 for his development of the first Emacs editor in the 1970s. In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds. There is no charge for this evening presentation and pre-booking is not necessary. | | |P | | | |h | | | |i | | | |l | | | |l | N | | |i | _ | | |m | /| | | |o | / | | Commonwealth |r | / | | Institute |e | | | | | | | |G | | | -------- |d | | | ----- \ |n | | | | | |s | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kensington High Street A315 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | High St |W | |E | |A | Kensington |a | |a | |b | Tube Stn |r | |r | |i | |w | |l | |n | |i | |s | |g | |c | | | |d | |k | |C | |o | | | |o | |n | |G | |u | | | |d | |r | |R | |n | |t | |d | |s | | | | | | | |R | | | | | |d | | | For more detailed map, see: http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?pc=W86NQ

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Last Sunday's meeting: Summary
by Alasdair G Kergon 09 Feb '99

09 Feb '99

For the benefit of the few of you:-) who were unable to make it on Sunday, here's a brief summary to bring you up-to-date: There were fifty people there. Students were in the minority:-) About ten people there weren't on the mailing list - some have joined since. The list currently stands at just over 60. We agreed to hold regular "First Sunday Of The Month" meetings in Central Oxford starting at 6.30pm to provide the group with a focal point. Any list member may arrange additional events at other times using the mailing list - please do! Philip Armstrong volunteered to lead the effort to put together a web site - temporarily at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pemb0839/oxlug/ (Do take a look, if you haven't already!) We would investigate the alternatives for hosting the web site - www.ox.lug.org.uk being the main contender - and report back to the list for a decision. oxlug-announce list to be set up, and only split oxlug into lists for different topics if the need arises in the future. Post-meeting notes: Suggestion for Sunday 7th March: KDE vs Gnome (vs ?) Maybe about half-an-hour on KDE, half-an-hour on Gnome, plus discussion? Any volunteers to help or lead this? Any offers for April? Since it's Easter Day, I suggest we move it to, say, Sunday 11th April - or should we hold it on a weekday evening instead? An offer for Sunday 2nd May: Benchmarking Linux performance, including comparisons with NT Web site etc. - I mailed one ISP last night asking about the options (too early yet for a reply!) and I hope to mail another one tonight or tomorrow. Alasdair.

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New mailing list for announcements
by Alasdair G Kergon 08 Feb '99

08 Feb '99

The mailing list for OxLUG announcements is now live. If you have an announcement, send it to oxlug-announce(a)lists.compsoc.net. This list is meant for people who don't wish to receive the quantity of messages that the oxlug list receives, and for people who wish to separate the announcements from the discussion (using the message headers). You should only subscribe to one of the two lists - all messages sent to oxlug-announce(a)lists.compsoc.net will also be sent to oxlug list members. If you subscribe to both, you'll receive two copies of the announcements! Neither list is moderated, but posting to both of the lists is restricted to email addresses of oxlug list members. To swap lists, first send "subscribe oxlug-announce" to majordomo(a)lists.compsoc.net, then send the authorisation message you're prompted for, then send "unsubscribe oxlug". Alasdair.

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