I blundered across this: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html#GHlist last night. It made me think a little.
Perhaps such `purity' would be dificult to achieve for ALUG, but a smaller subset of ALUG, or Joint Group might be possible. Athough the population density of our area, and the attendance at meetings, might make any such project impractical
John Seago wrote:
I blundered across this: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html#GHlist last night. It made me think a little.
Perhaps such `purity' would be dificult to achieve for ALUG, but a smaller subset of ALUG, or Joint Group might be possible. Athough the population density of our area, and the attendance at meetings, might make any such project impractical
Well you are pointing at the GNU/Hurd list there too, does anybody on this list actually run/use GNU/Hurd? or have any experience installing it? I have the latest CD .iso images and am planning having a go getting it working soon (i think i may try to get it working in vmware first and then go for a native install).
Anyhow I always thought that the Alug was primarily for Linux but we will have anybody from the "alternative" unix'a'like platforms including proprietary unixs and the BSDs etc. are welcome (what about plan9, QNX and Mac OS X?)
Actually for interests sake who here runs other OS than x86 Linux and Windows? and do you actually use them for anything useful? or just to play with?
I have been known to play with all of the BSDs, and Debian/Sparc and Solaris at home. I also have copies of Plan 9 that I cannot get to install, a copy of Gnu/Hurd that i havn't tried to install yet, a few copies of BeOS that i used to play around with and one of my favourites is Amiga OS running in an emulation layer (UAE) on linux :) oh and at work i currently also have to deal with HP/UX (9!) Irix and Mac OS X. In the past I think I have used most common varients (and not so common) of unix from many manufacturers including the evil DG/UX from Data General which ran on their weird homebrew multicpu x86 machines.
Adam
John Seago john.seago@dakings.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps such `purity' would be dificult to achieve for ALUG, but a smaller subset of ALUG, or Joint Group might be possible. Athough the population density of our area, and the attendance at meetings, might make any such project impractical
We seem to be being paralysed on the organisation front. No-one is taking the initiative and organising any meetings. Subsetting is probably a good idea, but not too rigourously. I'd definitely be interested in a GNU group, but who else? Maybe it's time to add some group ideas to our http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?MembersDirectory entries?
As for meetings: the last one was here in King's Lynn, I'd rather not be doing the next one, but if needs must, I will. I'm sort-of inclined to suggest an informal (Wednesday?) evening hour-or-two meeting in a local beery establishment not too far from the stations, which should be very easy for people along the A47 (X94 coach), A148 (X98 coach) or Lynn-London train line to get to. Who's interested and which nearby Wednesdays can they make?
MJR
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