Description

The St. Louis Unix Users Group - Linux SIG is a special interest group (SIG) of the St. Louis Unix Users Group.

The St. Louis Unix Users Group - Linux SIG meets on the third Thursday of every month at the Bridgeton Trails County Library at 7:00PM. Membership and meetings are free and open to everyone.

History of Meetings

Date	Topic	Attendence
17 April 1997	Linux Administration	38
20 March 1997	Graphic Tools for Linux	29
20 February 1997	The Apache Web Server CGI Programming, the Basics	31
16 January 1997	Mathematic Software for Linux	23
19 December 1996	Overview of Window Managers Available For Linux/XFree86	22
21 November 1996	Disk Drives 101	25
17 October 1996	Network Management	24
19 September 1996	Using `pppd' to connect to the SLUUG BBS Loadable Kernel Modules and Kerneld	27
15 August 1996	Java: What's all the Excitement About?	23
18 July 1996	PGP: Pretty Good Privacy	21
20 June 1996	Using Linux in an Internet Firewall Scheme	19
16 May 1996	Linux as an Internet Service Provider	30
18 April 1996	Linux System Administration	21
21 March 1996	The Red Hat Linux Distribution	31
15 February 1996	The Products of Yggdrasil	25
18 January 1996	Upgrading to ELF The Caldera Network Desktop Preview II	21
21 December 1995	Linux Emulators & other nifty Linux apps	27
16 November 1995	Building a Linux System from Scratch - Part II	33
19 October 1996	Filesystem Structure Standard Building a Linux System from Scratch - Part I	29
21 September 1995	Creating a Linux Boot/Root Diskette LaTeX	24
17 August 1995	Linux Frontiers by Matt Welsh	70
20 July 1995	The bash & tcsh shells	37
Average		29

Presentation

• What is Linux (LIH-nucks)?
  Extracted from the Linux Information Sheet
• Linux Features
• Technical support from distribution vendors
• Source code
• Rapid development cycle
• Software management system - Red Hat Package Management System (RPMS)
• Software availability
• Commercial Linux Products
• The Linux Software Map
• Documentation
• Linux Documentation Project
• SSC Linux Information Page - Publishers of the Linux Journal
• Usenet News
• comp.os.linux.admin!
• comp.os.linux.advocacy
• comp.os.linux.announce
• comp.os.linux.answers
• comp.os.linux.development.apps
• comp.os.linux.development.system
• comp.os.linux.hardware
• comp.os.linux.help
• comp.os.linux.m68k
• comp.os.linux.misc
• comp.os.linux.networking
• comp.os.linux.setup
• comp.os.linux.x
• etc...
• Security Information (Linux Security Alerts)
• WebCrawler's Web Server Distribution
• mSQL
• FastCGI
• Java
• Questions?

Last Modified: 14 May 1997