On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:27:04 -0500, Mario Lombardo
<mario@alienscience.com> wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2005 15:41, Dylan Hardison wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:14:46 -0500, Mario Lombardo
> >
> > <mario@alienscience.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 February 2005 15:57, Dylan Hardison wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:17:14 -0500, Aaron Steimle
> > > > <asteimle@washpat.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > We will be having an editor, Taran Rampersad, from Linuxgazette.com
> > > > > come to the meeting. He is coming to maybe record the meeting.
> > > > > He will at least be writing an article about LUG's. If anyone has a
> > > > > really interesting topic they would like to talk about, this would be
> > > > > the meeting to do it.
> > > >
> > > > How about "Writing a chat server in under an hour using Perl and POE"?
> > >
> > > But isn't that PERL not Linux? I suppose it might be better than
> > > nothing, but then again it is OT.
> >
> > it's usually "perl", btw. No caps.
> >
> > Anyway, technically linux is just the kernel. Most meetings are actually
> > about software that runs under the kernel, such as the KDE and Gnome
> > desktops, or browsers, spreadsheets, etc.
> >
> > Unless we want to talk about the process schedular, virtual memory,
> > the VFS, ioctls, etc, we're not talking about "Linux".
> >
> > Both KDE and perl run non-linux systems. Heck, there's even a alpha
> > port of KDE to windows.
> > It could be argued perl is part of the standard toolchest of Linux
> > (and other unices).
> > And so if you're talking about the largest system when you say
> > "Linux", you're talking about all the tools that run in userland.
> > Everything from ls(1) to Konqueror.
> > Perl is included in that.
> >
> > If someone has something else to offer, that's great. I just thought
> > to myself "Well, what interesting thing could I show at the meeting
> > without any preparation?" and that's what I came up with.
>
> Yes, it's GNU/Linux that we talk about. I know Linux is just the kernel, but
> we typically talk about GNU/Linux as an operating system. Like I said, I
> thought it would be off-topic (programming-Perl) but interesting nonetheless.
>
I'm still praying that someone else will volunteer an interesting topic.
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