On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 08:53, Colin McKinnon wrote: > At 20:00 30/10/01 +0000, Kevin McDermott wrote: > >What would everybody think about a talk on *BSD (the three main free BSD > >variants) ? > > Well, my inbox isn't overflowing with responses. What _do_ people want to > hear about?
I would quite like to hear about why you use BSB, perhaps a bit of an insight into J.Random BSD user, what you like about it that you dont like on other distrobutions, What the differences are in use and licencing between the various flavors of BSD etc. etc. I would quite like to hear a series of talks on why people use the distro they have. Something along the lines of "My names <Name> and I use <Distro> because <Reason>..... The talk wouldnt have to be long, in fact we could get everybody to stand up and say a reason for using their distro or for not using any of the others like the idea with the books, just a short rant about your favorite distro and what quirks and features you like about it. Definatly would appreciate one on general encryption and the like. D > > (I though it would have been interesting, Kevin) > > I don't think any of our scheduled speakers stand up and talk without > putting a lot of time and thought into their presentation, so feedback and > direction is important. Similarly, attendance at the monthly meetings > really took off when the formal presentations started so there does seem to > be some demand for technical talks. > > I'm obviously not embarassed by my ignorance - top of my list of things to > hear about: > Perl programming, particularly CGI & DBD > C tools - gdb, make & co. > GPG/PGP encryption > ssh > internet telephony > legislation regarding development & use of software > > There are some areas I've done (a little) research into and I could be > convinced to give a introductory talk on: > intrusion detection systems > content control > > Meanwhile, can anybody recommend some cheap/free games for Linux? > > Colin > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
