Meeting minutes for May 3, 2000

[Brian Kelsay]

> Sorry I've slacked off in gettng this in, busy as ever.
> 
> May 3, 2000
> 
> 14 people in attendance
> No formal schedule of events
> 
> Ed began with discussion of how to run multiple X Servers on the same box.
> You would need to add to your normal startx command as follows:
> startx -- :(some # e.g. the #7 would allow you to switch to the second
> xserver by hitting alt-f7)   Clear as mud right?
> 
> startx -- :7 bpp16   -this makes the second x server start with a
> different color depth and you switch to it by typing alt-f7
> This would be used if you were wanting to try something with different X
> parameters or some other reason I can't think of right now.
> 
> Next we talked about some of the miniture devices that run linux.   Small
> file and print servers like the Cobalt Raq and Cube, Quantum Snap, Axis
> print server and others.  These examples all run the Linux kernel from a
> boot ROM of 12-16MB.   Then we discussed a couple of floppy bootable
> distros and the feasability of diskless (HDD) workstations that boot to a
> network and download the OS.  For more info on this see:  www.ltsp.org or
> www.disklessworkstation.com 
> 
> Finally we discussed the KCLUG booth at Linuxfest.
> As other emails have stated, the boothspace and some minor items will be
> provided by the fest.   There will be some expenses to the group so we
> need to discuss at the next meeting where the funds are going to come
> from.
> 
> Monty Harter ( a new member) brought a design for a KCLUG logo that was
> well received.   He has a picture of Tux the penguin holding a branding
> iron with KC on it.  The branding iron is to signify KC's history of
> cattle and BBQ.
> He used POVray to make the branding iron 3D.   Jeremy McCright was going
> to look into printing the logo large for us and Tom Margrave was going to
> check on printing a banner with the logo and Kansas City Linux Users Group
> on it.
> 
> As far as the booth,  we will have a banner as described behind us and
> some sort of drape around the table.   Several PCs (donated for the week
> by various members) will be running Linux with different distros and
> varying hardware.  Another banner type display behind the table will show
> pictures of hardware running the Linux kernel from small devices to large
> demonstrating the scalability of the kernel.   At the small end PDAs like
> the Yopy and the Palm, moving up to the Psion, Cobalt Cube, iMac, a
> standard PC, a multiprocessor PC, Netfinity, RS 6000, AS/400, and finally
> some sort of Beowulf cluster.
> 
> What is needed is to find pictures of each of these devices, preferably
> with an identifiable X session or Linux app running, color printouts if
> possible.
> If some of you have tracked these down already then please bring them
> tonight for group review.
> 
> That's it!  Have a great meeting tonight.
> Later,
> Brian Kelsay