Members attending the meeting included: Richard Foerster, Lisle Emerson & her son Jacob, and friend Mike, Martin Fleming,  Jeff Lasman, Dick Mathews and Greg Rawson.    Attending for the first time were, Larry Hooten, David Fife, and Tom White.

Members not in attendance at this meeting included  Jim Lucha, Greg Rawson, Steve Borchert, Jerry Hall, Donna Schrokosch, Jim Grey, Layne Morales, Daniel Malloy, Martin Huh, Alan Shoemaker, Don Evinger,  Mac Shaver, Klaus Herzog,  Isaac Sladana,  Ossil Macavinta, Michael Karshner, Dana Rodin, Todd Lyons, Dave Reisz, Gary Taylor, Ken Howels,  Hung Nguyen, Kandy Phan, Tad Peters,  Forrest Sherman,  Tom Nielsen,  Clint Byrum,  Craig Carignan, , and  Jim Vassilako.   

Lisle Emerson brought in her Debian based server for some configuration help.  The problem turned out to be both due to having IP Chains and IP Tables running on the machine.   

Martin Fleming mentioned http://groklaw.net/ as g great source of information for those who want more information about the SCO/Linux issues that we have been discussing over the past few weeks.

Dick Mathews initiated a discussion about the December 31^st End of Life for Red Hat-8 and asked for recommendations for a strategy for the future.   Jeff indicated that the Fedora project will continue to provide updates for legacy versions from RH-7.0 and up.  The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project.  According to information posted at the site, “The Fedora Project is one of the sources for new technologies and enhancements that may be incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the future.”   This suggests that the Enterprise product is going to be based on more mature packages with an emphasis on stability.

The next meeting will be held on January 10th, 2004