[Nottingham] Some curious tidbits

[Martin]

On 4 August 2011 10:54, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seeing as I haven't caused enough controversy on this list recently,
> here's a few  stories to stir things up.
>
> GNU Emacs violates the GPL
> http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/say-what-gnu-emacs-violates-gpl
>
> Is Microsoft the largest contributor to the Linux kernel?
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Microsoft-contributes-a-lot-of-changes-to-Linux-kernel-3-0-1280528.html
>
> And...err...WTF?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA2kqAIOoZM
>
> "FaifCast 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON" where Karen discusses the issues
> with proprietary code and medical implants makes some quite scary listening.
> http://faif.us/cast/2011/aug/02/0x15/
>
> Cheers for the talk last night, Martin.  I thought you handles the
> heckling malcontents rather smoothly. :-P


Thanks for following up with the links.

A couple of links to add from the night myself as mentioned are:

Android versus Linux?
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Android-versus-Linux-924563.html

GNU Hurd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

"The Hurd aims to surpass Unix operating systems in functionality,
security, and stability, while remaining largely compatible with them.
The GNU Project chose the microkernel server–client architecture for
the operating system, due to perceived advantages over the traditional
Unix monolithic kernel architecture.[2]

HURD is a mutually recursive acronym, standing for HIRD of
Unix-replacing daemons, where HIRD stands for HURD of interfaces
representing depth. As both hurd and hird are just alternate spellings
for the English word herd, the full name GNU Hurd is also a play on
the words herd of gnus, reflecting how the kernel works.[3]"


And hey! It's good to have a PhuD slug xxxx peer review xxxx
discussion on something contentious (Hurd) once in a while! :-) I
think the mutually recursive nature of the acronym says a lot... I
just hope we didn't expand the jargon count too far being the night
was supposed to be a jargon buster... In any case, it's good for some
audience participation to avoid the presenter getting lazy :-o

And a warm welcome to the rare or new faces there last night.

Help navigating through all the choices for what Linux distros to try
(other than all of them) is given on the first few links on:

Linux LInks
http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/links


Another link to add is for this Friday:

Beeston Cider, Cheese and Hog-roast
http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/08/beeston-cider-cheese-and-hog-roast/519


See ya there,

Cheers,
Martin