[aclug-L] Re: February Meeting topic?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:19:02PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> I would be willing to talk about any of the following.  Some of these
> are not long enough for a single meeting, so two might be covered in one
> night.  My personal favorite suggestion would be LVM near the bottom,
> which could apply to just about everyone.

And add to that list:

* Debian.  Debian is, well, one of those "different" distributions.
  I'll talk about Debian's history, why I use Debian on all my machines,
  its current status, its weaknesses, how to use it, etc.  Debian is
  also the only Linux distribution that is not just a Linux
  distribution; Debian ports also exist for the Hurd operating system,
  are in progress for FreeBSD and NetBSD; are even being worked on for
  Windows (!); and the Debian packaging system has been ported to MacOS
  X (fink).  I'll talk about some of these things, too.

* (shorter topic) OfflineIMAP, my e-mail synchronization tool.  An
  overview of the problems it's written to solve, discussion about how
  to set it up, a demonstration of its use if possible, and if there's
  interest, a discussion about the architecture under the hood.

* Linux Virtual Servers.  Different ways you can take a single machine
  and carve it up into many smaller virtual machines.  Discussion of why
  this is a useful technique.  I'll cover both the vserver project and
  User Mode Linux.  Time permitting, I'll also briefly discuss the
  FreeBSD jail feature, which is similar to the vserver idea.

-- John

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