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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:08:51 +0200 From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi> To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu Reply-To: linux-announce-owner@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: LOCAL: (Colorado) October CLUE Newsletter From: Mark Bolzern <mark@gcs.com> Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc Organization: ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ My apologies for getting this out so late. --liw ] CLUE Newsletter, October 1995 This newsletter is of general geographical interest, but is aimed at Colorado CLUE members, a Local Linux Users Group. The material should be of interest even to people in other geographical areas. The reason? We attempt always to have a good informational summary of the presentation from the prior month's meeting included. The Colorado Linux Users & Enthusiasts (CLUE), normally meets the third Thursday of every month. The next meeting will be at 7:00pm on October 19 (a third Thursday). The location will be Smoky Hill High School, located at 16100 E. Smoky Hill Rd. in southeast Aurora. CLUE is for anyone with an interest in Linux, whether you are an Expert, or just interested and want to know more about the Internet and Operating System phenomena that Linux represents. All interested parties are invited to attend. Let's learn from each other!! For more information, or to be added/removed from the CLUE mailing list contact James at 303-699-7470 or E-Mail: clue@wgs.com, or attend a meeting, and turn in your information there, currently there is no cost for membership or newsletter subscription via E-Mail. - ------ Future Meeting dates will be: Q4/95 October 19, 1995, November 9, 1995, December 21, 1995 Q1/96 January 18, 1996, February 15, 1996, March 21, 1996 Q2/96 April 18, 1996, May 16, 1996, June 20, 1996 Directions to Smoky Hill High School: Take Parker south from I-225, to Quincy. There will be a shopping center on the left, and a Stoplight. Take a left on Quincy. Then the first stoplight with a right turn will be Smoky Hill Road. Turn right onto Smoky Hill, cross Chambers (a light), and then turn right at Laredo (a stop light), then left into the School parking lot. Go past the main entrance, and to the activities entrance. Door prizes will be given away at every meeting. CLUE would be happy to accept additional door prizes from anyone who would like to donate them. - ------ HOT NEWS FLASH and/or Current News The Cherry Creek School District Technology Fair for teachers from other schools, parents and others is happening this weekend. The general public is welcome to attend. The date is October 7, the location, Smoky Hill HS. The fair will run from 9am to 4pm. Among other sessions will be "Web Pages", 9:10am - 10:00am and "Unix No Fear" by the Smoky Hill Linux Students at 11:10-12:00, School contacts for more information are Diana Kastelic 693-1700 x 5424 at Smoky Hill, and Alicia Pray 773-1184 x 4261 with the Cherry Creek School district. Or you could of course contact your favorite Smoky Hill Linux student.... Early next year Rich Maginn and his students will be presenting an Internet / Worldwide Web hands on workshop using the Smoky Hill network. This will be available to anyone who cares to attend that particular CLUE meeting. There may be a donation requested to help Smoky Hill buy more computer equipment, this has not yet been determined. More information to come, stay tuned! WGS announced WGS Linux Pro version 3.0, at the September meeting, and provided the very first copy to the students at Smoky Hill, who immediately started beating up on it. WGS Linux Pro 3.0 is now based on a WGS bug fixed and enhanced Red Hat Commercial Linux. Among other things, WGS has supplied a program to install Linux much easier than before. Simply type d:\install if the CD-ROM is drive D:, and available from DOS. The installation is menu driven from there. WGS claims that WGS Linux Pro is now the easiest to install, most complete, easiest to configure and administer Linux of all. New are graphical administration tools, more hardware support, and that it comes with a completely revised and reformatted manual largely based on the LDP (Linux documentation project). This is the the most complete manual delivered for any commercial version of Linux. For Info write info@wgs.com If you have any announcments or news for this section of the newsletter, please send it to the editor, mark@wgs.com - ------ Next Meeting Topic (Oct 19, 1995): As you know, the following topic was to be presented in September, but Steve was wisked away by his employer (US West) at the last minute to a place he did not want to go. Fortunately Eric Gustafson took up the slack with a great presentation on how to configure the Linux X-Free86 X-Server. So: At the October meeting Steve Martin will give an overview of some of the more popular distributions of Linux, what they are, how they differ, and what features they offer. He will discuss how the installation process works for each, and what major software packages are included. In addition he will take a look at some of the CD producers and talk about which distributions they offer, and what additional items they might provide beyond the standard distributions. Definitely included will be Slackware and Red Hat, and possibly other distributions too. We look forward to your comments and questions! - ------ Meeting Topics, Newsletter Articles: We would like your ideas for presenters/speakers, and topics for both Meeting presentations, and also Newsletter articles. Please help; supply either or both for us. Volunteers are especially appreciated. Notes from the last meeting held on Sept 21, 1995 Due to Steve Martin's absence, Don Lewis was the MC for CLUE at this meeting, and did an excellent job of it. Eric was well introduced, and business well taken care of. Thank you Don! Configuring X Windows for Linux by Eric Gustafson egustafs@vlsia.uccs.edu The topic of discussion for the September Colorado Linux Users Enthusiast (CLUE) meeting was how to configure X Windows for Linux. Eric Gustafson gave a dissertation and answered questions on MIT's X windowing system and how to configure it to run under Linux. The starting point for understanding how to configure X windows, X for short, is to understand what X is. X is a client-server based windowing system developed at MIT in 1984. The current version is 11, first released in 1987, and the current revision is 6, released in early 1995. The client-server approach allows X clients (programs) to run on any machine on a network and take advantage of the display services (the X server) via numerous networking protocols. By using this approach all of the hardware dependencies have been relegated to the X server. This is what must me configured for each different hardware platform X is to run on. It is also important to note that there is a special client known as the window manager which provides the look and feel of each users X session. Various window managers are in use including Motif (mwm), Tom's Window Manager (twm), and fvwm, of which the meaning of the acronym is unknown. XFree86 is an effort started in 1992 to port MIT's X window system to the Intel x86 architecture (80386+) such that it would run under a variety of Unicies. Linux, BSD386, and SCO Unix were the predominant x86 Unicies at the time. The intent of the XFree86 team has always been to merge their project back into the main X distribution; this has been accomplished in X11R6. The _binary_ distribution of XFree86 still continues to be distributed under the XF86 version numbering with the latest version being XFree86-3.1.2. The XF86 team's mission continues as new hardware, (video cards), is developed they will continue to write new code to support this hardware. In all of this development it is important to realize that the only portion of the X window system which has had to be modified in the port to the x86 architecture is the server because hardware dependences have always been isolated there. This makes XFree86 truly no different from X running on any other type of workstation. Since all of the hardware dependencies have been isolated in the X server this is the most important part of configuring X to run under Linux. XFree86 uses a single configuration file to accomplish this, the file is <XRoot>/lib/X11/XF86Config. <XRoot> is used to denote the base of the X window directory tree which is typically located at /usr/X11R6. There is a man page for the XF86Config file, XF86Config(5), and people trying to configure X for their Linux box should refer to this. Of particular interest is the configuration for mice. This is accomplished in the "Pointer" section of the XF86Config file. In addition, people who have mice which are not serial mice should make sure that they have the appropriate device created in their /dev directory, (refer to /dev/MAKEDEV and the man page MAKEDEV(8)). The most involved part of configuring X for Linux is configuring the video card and monitor. This is accomplished in the "Monitor", "Device", and "Screen" sections. For all but the most adventurous it is advised that people use the predefined entries for both monitors and video cards contained in the "Monitors" and "Devices" files in <XRoot>/lib/X11/doc directory. For those who like living on the edge or really tinkering with their computer instructions for generating custom video timing information is contained in <XRoot>/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc. The last portion of the discussion centered around configuring each users own look and feel to their X session. The two important files for this are ~/.xinitrc and the window manager's configuration file, (mwm -> ~/.mwmrc; twm -> ~/.twmrc; fvwm -> ~/.fvwmrc). The .xinitrc file is a bourne shell script which is run at the time you login or start X; this is where any clients (programs) one wishes to have started automatically should be places. The window manager configuration file is how the look and feel is described, in particular what menus are associated with each mouse button, along with many other things. Each window manager has a man page and users should refer to that for more information. Additional information can be found at: <http://www.x.org> -- General X information <http://www.xfree86.org> -- Specific to XFree86 - ---- After the presentation, as always there was an open question and answer session, and then extensive socializing. Some consider this time the most valuable portion of the meeting. Those of you who did not make it to the meeting really missed out! See you next time! ========================================================================== About this Meeting Notice/ Newsletter This is the newsletter for the Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiasts (CLUE). This Newsletter will be written and sent out every month prior to the CLUE meeting. You may, and in fact are encouraged to make copies of this newsletter, and E-Mail, Post, Send, it to anyone you like. Please send it to friends, post it on BBS, and physical bulletin boards at your school, office, computer stores, bookstores, etc. Help CLUE grow. Please repost this newsletter, or just the meeting notice. Possible posting locations could also include any internet newsgroups you participate in where interest in Linux may reside. If this newsletter or knowledge of CLUE don't exist where you are looking, put it there! We can use all the help we can get. Credits: CLUE is currently sponsored by Smoky Hill High School Linux Students, and WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. Users of any flavor of Linux, or just anyone with interest in Linux is welcome to attend. There are currently no dues, no membership fees, and no cost to attend meetings. Donations of Hardware are appreciated by Smoky Hill High School, and are tax deductible. So if your company is upgrading depreciated 386 or higher PC hardware, think of the Linux group at Smoky Hill! Contact Rich Maginn at rich@stega.smoky.ccsd.k12.co.us if you have any hardware to donate. Officers of CLUE: President Steve Martin smartin@mrg.uswest.com Newsletter Editor Mark Bolzern mark@wgs.com Librarian Joel Noble joel_noble@msmgate.mrg.uswest.com Other officers to be determined if and when they are elected/volunteer or are conscripted. This is your newsletter, please submit material! ======================================================================== Following are community service items, to have your item posted, please email it to mark@wgs.com There is presently no cost for this service, but eventually there will be, to help finance CLUE - ---- Job Announcements: WorkGroup Solutions; We are always looking for additional employees as we grow. Our primary need at the moment is a top salesperson who has experience in the bookstore and/or software sales. Must have existing high level contacts in the computer industry. We have added on the average a new person about once a month for the last year. We need resumes from people for the following areas: Sales both outbound & phone, data entry, technical support, Product assembly-packing-shipping, graphic design, bookkeeping, and more. Typing skills & Linux knowledge a plus. If you'd like to work for a fast growing company small enough to be like a family, then please send your resume to mark@wgs.com - ---- Linux Consultants for hire in Colorado: David Martin, david@large.com 303-680-8207 - ---- Items for sale: none at this time, please submit some! - ---- Items wanted: none at this time, please submit some! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMIVl9oQRll5MupLRAQHF8QQAhyVAkndtYa+56eH+MWjC/zMPl9s1yt2M pzLtic+eVDNen4BH3JrJ0+VQAqH86o0Q0GBTF0D7zaZ9cztTQQiFt3zMvHG+yg20 nAyYYvNqQtlsS+Z1XxjrGjB45XxifGwl4v9tcSz3nLyty79IeQRhtpemLitjeQWf YTaHc9VIvPA= =naEO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. Finger wirzeniu@kruuna.helsinki.fi for PGP key needed for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION.
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