GNUbies meet Wednesday 14 March 2001: Sulzberger on GNU standard tarballs and more

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Author: JT Smith

Jay Sulzberger of LXNY sent us this heads up about the next GNUbies meeting:

This meeting is free and open to the public.
 
 The meeting runs from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
 
 Thanks to support of CALC/Canterbury, the meeting is
 in their space at 780 Third Avenue 
 between 48th and 49th Streets on
 the East Side of Manhattan.  Ask at the front desk for
 CALC/Canterbury, which is on Concourse Level 1.
 
 Times:
 
 6:30 pm General Q&A
 7:00 pm Jay Sulzberger will commence ranting
 
 Subway stops:
 IND E and F, the Lexington Avenue stop
 IRT 6, the 51st Street stop
 
 If you plan to attend, please visit the Beginners
 web page at
 
 http://www.gnubies.org
 
 and follow the attendance link so that we can
 arrange for the appropriate amount of space.
 
 
 Today there is no competent mass market small office
 lan product, neither a source secret product nor a free software
 product. We will argue that the correlation of forces favors free
 software in the coming drive to lower Operating Costs and raise
 Return on Investment.
 
 http://www.fsf.org
 http://www.debian.org
 http://rsync.samba.org


 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
 http://sicp.ai.mit.edu/Spring-2001


ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_75.html#SEC82


ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_141.html#SEC264


http://slashdot.org/interviews/01/03/13/1420210.shtml


http://hotwired.lycos.com/collections/connectivity/5.10_eli_noam1.html


http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link9708/0412.html
 
 info tar
 man apt-get
 
 I will also install from scratch a Debian system in
 two different ways, one of which requires 
 exactly three keystrokes.  The author of the three stroke
 install utility will heckle throughout.
 
 Jay Sulzberger