Saturday's meeting concerned my look at the offerings of Linux Journal. The important thing to first note is that there's about a 35% lack of overlap in mag-vs-site material. There's considerable stuff unique to both publishing channels, so don't neglect either one. One thing you get on the website would be the video production known as the "Linux Minute", hosted by one of the editors. We played back the segment that IN ONE MINUTE demonstrated OpenSUSE's equivalent of what most of us do in the Debian world via apt-get, which would be several command line updating options, specifically Zypper. It's about as easy as apt-get and now allows me to avoid Yast or the Gnome updater, which use more memory than the machine I loaded Suse on can conveniently provide. Without another crash. My fault; I knew what I was doing when I loaded a modern OS onto a 9 year old computer. But now I can update faster and safer, thanks to Linux Minute via linuxjournal.com.
Playback would have been more elegant had I solved the screen resizing difficulty I often get with Hal-PC's equipment. Maybe I need to find the controls on my own (naturally) different desktop (we're dillitants in the club, constantly changing our machines in every way)...sp? Other things covered were our "favorite flag" command review feature, my common question of "does this job offer sound proper or are they scrambling to replace 4 or 5 walkouts?", and a pitch for membership and support for our venue organization, the venerable Hal-PC.
The LAN party was next and I got killed 313 times in Urban Terror, one of the games recently ported over which uses the Quake 3 engine. If my caffeinated excitement doesn't drive 'em away, this event should continue to pack 'em (or us) in for quite some time.
Up next on the roster of speakers will possibly be a certain Java programmer on internet telephony alternatives, a certain webmaster of a certain Linux magazine published locally, and possibly either Russell or me again on a subject to be concocted shortly.
