[WBEL-users] Other linux/library options??

[Beartooth]

	Is this list alive??

	It doesn't look it, at least on Gmane, and I'm very sorry to see 
that.

	Some guy on the Fedora list I follow*, named Rohit Gupta,
at Kalyani Government Engineering College (KGEC), somewhere in
India, is trying to get a Linux Users' Group (LUG) off the ground
-- and vaunts : "one more success: We have installed and setup
the library computer with fedora 10."

       I doubt he guesses what a jackpot he has hit.

        I started to refer him to Whitebox; discovered that it
seems to have done a classic imitation of Lost River (id est,
sunk into the ground); started to refer him to Autocat;
discovered searching the archives is a lot less obvious that I
thought -- so I decided to do a first search myself, and zap him
the result -- and couldn't do it, in fact. Aaarrgghhh, it's awful
to get old.

	But I'm sure several of you (if any are left) still also follow 
Autocat; and some no doubt will have better ideas than that.

        Has there been any recent discussion of linux in
libraries, somewhere that a non-librarian could find? Where would
be a good place for him to get a start, to save reinventing
wheels within wheels?

*I think what I monitor (some of) is actually a list at
redhat.com; but I point my newsreader at news.gmane.org, and read
it as gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general; the thread, titled "Want
to start a LUG with all fedora support," begins on March 12 --
just in case any of you want to jump in.

NB: In case anyone is unfamiliar with Gmane (Could any librarian
not be??), you can simply tell your newsreader to post a
followup; Gmane will send you an autoreply; you reply to that, or
go to a web page, to prove you exist (i.e., you're no spammer);
and Gmane then posts for you.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.