Re: CLUG Monthly General Meeting — Mar ch 8th, 2017

Reminder that the Meeting is tomorrow

See URL: 
http://clug.ca/wordpress/2017/02/monthly-general-meeting-march-8th-2017/


On 28/02/17 10:20 PM, Melvin Walters wrote:
> The meeting room has already been booked for March 8, 2017
>
> Club: Calgary Linux Users Group
> Monthly General Meeting — March 8th, 2017
> Meeting Time: 17:30 to 19:30
>     Meeting Place: Central Library, Basement Rm 2
>     Street address: 616 Macleod Trail S.E.
>     Calgary AB T2G 2M2
> Refer to web site also for map: https://clug.ca  City Hall is the 
> c-train stop to get off at.
>
     Neil pointed out what IBM is doing now (Computer with no 
proprietary software or firmware blobs) with their Power8 and to be 9. 
Plus what Raptor Engineering planning with the Power8. Talos Secure 
Workstation (Wow what a difference from the XT PC!) Early adopters have 
to vote with their dollars before we will see a lower cost version made.

Controversy like the GNU/Linux -- ZFS mix/ No mix:

     Canonical zfs is the FS for containers in Ubuntu 16.04
     Proxmox (GPL3) ZFS on Linux

Feb 28 th Update

Paul do his work so he ended up buying his own PC to do better. Then in 
excitement he said:

     "The possibilities are endless."

  Mid eighties quote from Paul Griffiths after buying an IBM PC XT for 
$6000  Picture and Ref to Vintage IBM PC

Mel


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